DOPHS Cases in Ottawa by Month

<div><b>Date created:</b> July 2024</div><div><b>Update frequency:</b> Quarterly</div><div><b>Accuracy - Points of consideration for interpretation of the data:</b></div><div><ul><li>Individual Ottawa residents may have multiple confirmed reports of a DPHS infection and each of these reports would be counted.</li></ul></div><div><b>Attributes - Data fields:</b></div><div><ul><li>Month Number - the month number from 1 (January) to 12 (December)</li><li>Month Name - the name of the month (i.e., January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December) </li><li>DPHS – the name of the Disease of Public Health Significance (DPHS) reported to Ottawa Public Health</li><li>Monthly average of counts from 2017 to 2019 – the average number of DPHS cases reported to OPH by month and DPHS, from 2017 to 2019 </li><li>Ottawa Cases in 2021– the number of DPHS cases reported to OPH in 2021 by DPHS</li><li>Ottawa Cases in 2022– the number of DPHS cases reported to OPH in 2022 by DPHS</li><li>Ottawa Cases in 2023– the number of DPHS cases reported to OPH in 2023 by DPHS </li></ul></div><div><b>Author: </b>OPH Epidemiology Team<br /></div><div><b>Author email: </b>[e-mail]</div><div><b>Maintainer Organization:</b> Epidemiology &amp; Evidence, Ottawa Public Health</div><div><br /></div>