Increase rates of vaccination.

What success looks like

By 2025, 95% of children under the age of two have received all recommended vaccinations.

Government's narrative on progress

The Government of Canada, working together with the provinces and territories, updated the national vaccination coverage goals and vaccine preventable disease reduction targets. The new goals and targets were endorsed by all jurisdictions in fall 2017. The Government of Canada also enhanced its Childhood National Immunization Coverage Survey to better estimate vaccination coverage and measure vaccine hesitancy. The Survey was launched in fall 2017 and initial reporting is expected in 2019. Since the launch of the Immunization Partnership Fund in 2016, 13 projects have been funded to support innovative projects aimed at increasing vaccination acceptance and uptake in Canada. Six additional projects are expected to be funded in 2018-19.

Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.