Health Reports, March 2016
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Released: 2016-03-16
The March 2016 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains two articles: "Child abuse and physical health in adulthood" and "Development and implementation of microsimulation models of neurological conditions."
A large amount of literature exists on the association between child abuse and mental health, but less is known about associations with physical health. The objective of "Child abuse and physical health in adulthood" was to determine whether several types of child abuse were related to an increased likelihood of negative physical health outcomes in a nationally representative sample of Canadian adults. Data are from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey – Mental Health.
As part of the first National Population Health Study of Neurological Conditions launched in 2009, a series of microsimulation models of neurological conditions (called POHEM – Neurological meta-model) were developed to project the health and economic impacts of seven neurological conditions over a 20-year period: Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and traumatic spinal cord injury. "Development and implementation of microsimulation models of neurological conditions" describes the methods and data used in the development and implementation of the POHEM – Neurological meta-model.
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The articles "Child abuse and physical health in adulthood" and "Development and implementation of microsimulation models of neurological conditions" are now available in the March 2016 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 27, no. 3 (). From the Browse by key resource module of our website, choose Publications. 82-003-X
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