No target for how people rate their mental health found in the Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Its mental health and substance use measures are about treatment. Who could set one: the Province of B.C.
No government decides this directly. Mental health also depends on work, income, housing and relationships, which no single government decides.
Province: last general election October 19, 2024; next set for October 21, 2028 unless called earlier (Constitution Act, s. 23).
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What this number does not show
Canadian Community Health Survey, two-year estimates for adults 18 and over. Each figure is an estimate with a 95% confidence interval (in the table).
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Survey redesign (marked on the chart): Statistics Canada introduced a redesigned questionnaire and a new collection method in 2022 and advises caution when comparing 2022 and later with earlier years. The 2021/22 estimate pools one year of each method. No change is calculated across that break, so this page has no better or worse label until the next estimate on the new method (2025/26).
Not measured yet in health care: wait to see a specialist before surgery, people waiting for a family doctor in Greater Victoria, waits for detox, and for treatment in Greater Victoria. See all 18 gaps
In plain words
Survey redesigned, so it is not compared with 2021/22.
The share of adults 18 and over in the South Vancouver Island health area who rate their own mental health as very good or excellent, from Statistics Canada’s health survey (two-year estimates).
How we decide “Not comparable”
Survey redesigned, so it is not compared with 2021/22.
A higher share means more adults say their mental health is very good or excellent. 46.6% in 2023/24 (95% confidence interval 42.7 to 50.6) against 44.8% in 2021/22. Statistics Canada flags 2023/24 as not statistically different from 2021/22. B.C.: 49.1%. Canada: 53.7%.
Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series. The rule.
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Why it matters. It is how residents themselves say they are doing, not a count of services used.
Canadian Community Health Survey, two-year estimates for adults 18 and over. Each figure is an estimate with a 95% confidence interval (in the table).
Survey redesign (marked on the chart): Statistics Canada introduced a redesigned questionnaire and a new collection method in 2022 and advises caution when comparing 2022 and later with earlier years. The 2021/22 estimate pools one year of each method. No change is calculated across that break, so this page has no better or worse label until the next estimate on the new method (2025/26).
The area is the Province's South Vancouver Island health service delivery area (Greater Victoria, the Western Communities, the Saanich Peninsula and the Southern Gulf Islands). No City of Victoria figure is published.
Which places
Area: South Vancouver Island
The Province’s South Vancouver Island health service delivery area, one of three in Island Health.
Included
The Greater Victoria, Western Communities, Saanich Peninsula and Southern Gulf Islands local health areas (the Province’s local health area boundaries)
Not included
Central and North Vancouver Island (the other Island Health service delivery areas)
Deaths are counted by where the drugs were used, not where the person lived
Comparison area: All of B.C. The whole province of British Columbia.
Comparison area: All of Canada Canada as a whole, shown only for comparison.
How the agency describes it: South Vancouver Island health service delivery area (Greater Victoria, Western Communities, Saanich Peninsula, Southern Gulf Islands).
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own file.
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