Welcome to the Lung Health Foundation’s Insight Hub — Canada’s trusted source for evidence-based blueprints for improving lung health. Here, we publish reports that shine a light on what’s working, where gaps remain, and what needs to change.
Whether you’re a policymaker, healthcare professional, researcher, or someone living with a lung condition, this hub is here to help you stay informed — and maybe even inspired to advocate.
2026
Reports
Canadian COPD Performance Index
A Provincial and Territorial Variation Report on COPD Care
THE CHALLENGE:
Canada ranks a disappointing 17th out of the 45 countries evaluated in the Global COPD Index. Despite access to universal health care, Canadians with COPD still suffer from high COPD-related hospitalizations and low access to respiratory specialists and care referral pathways. Gaps persist from region to region.
THE INSIGHTS:
Although the Global COPD Index provides information on how Canada fares relative to other countries, it doesn’t provide a clear overview of differences across Canadian regions. This report highlights key challenges, opportunities, and recommendations relevant to strengthening COPD care and improving outcomes across Canada’s thirteen unique provinces and territories.
WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT:
Inside this report, we provide clear, evidence-informed summaries to guide decision-making at the policy and system levels.
RELEASE DATE:
October 2026Acknowledgments
The Canadian COPD Performance Index was developed in partnership with Speak Up for COPD. An interprofessional team of 10 clinicians, data scientists and researchers were included in our working group, alongside a Canadian living with COPD.
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Our Process
Working Groups
Most Insight Hub reports are made possible by interprofessional working groups made up of clinicians, researchers, health system leaders, and individuals with lived experience. This collaboration helps ensure that our reports reflect both clinical and system-level realities.
Landscape Reports
Landscape reports are created to help translate existing, external recommendations into actionable guidance. For example, our 2026 Immunization Policy and Guidance Paper will help readers understand recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), which are fundamentally rooted in a structured consensus process.
A Structured Consensus Process
When Insight Hub reports are created through Working Groups, we choose what we measure (and how!) through a structured consensus process. This helps balance different perspectives (policy, clinical, lived experience) so that no single viewpoint dominates the findings. The process also allows the group to identify and clearly signal what matters most by rating the importance of each item. This is important because it helps people understand not just what the findings are, but which ones matter most and why — making the results easier to trust, use, and act on.
Quintuple Aim
When evaluating the healthcare system, Insight Hub reports use the Quintuple Aim, a widely adopted healthcare improvement framework that looks at five important domains:
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