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- 1. 100 years of health ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20000035387Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article looks briefly at changes in health in the 20th century, with special focus on the concerns of Canadians in childhood, mid-life and old age.
Release date: 2000-12-12 - 2. Teenage pregnancy ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20000015299Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines trends in teenage pregnancy in Canada, focussing on induced abortions, live births and fetal loss among women aged 15 to 19 in 1997.
Release date: 2000-10-20 - Articles and reports: 82-003-X20000015300Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines the extent of proxy reporting in the Natiional Population Health (NPHS). It also explores associations between proxy reporting status and the prevalence of selected health problems, and investigates the relationship between changes in proxy reporting status and two-year incidence of health problems.
Release date: 2000-10-20 - 4. Chronic back problems among workers ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20000015301Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines associations between selected work- and non-work-related factors and the incidence of chronic back problems over the next two years.
Release date: 2000-10-20 - 5. Household spending on health care ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20000015302Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines changes in household spending on health care between 1978 and 1998. It also provides a detailed look at household spending on health care in 1998.
Release date: 2000-10-20 - 6. Dependence-free life expectancy in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20000025167Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article uses the measure of dependence-free life expectancy to ask whether the additional years of life gained over the last century are being lived in good health.
Release date: 2000-09-12 - 7. Health Care in Canada ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 82-222-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
These two reports provide up-to-date information on the health of Canadians in all regions. They describe how differences in health status are related to various health determinants and how the health care system affects health. Data are from Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
Release date: 2000-06-22 - Articles and reports: 82-003-X19990045064Geography: CanadaDescription:
Lower mortality rates overall, and for cardiovascular disease in particular, as well as lower odds of heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis and activity limitation, suggest that recent cohorts are healthier than previous cohorts.
Release date: 2000-05-29 - 9. Oral contraceptive use ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X19990045065Geography: CanadaDescription:
Oral contraceptive users - many of whom smoke heavily - tend to be young, unmarried, sexually active women who are relatively well-educated and who have prescription drug insurance coverage.
Release date: 2000-05-29 - Articles and reports: 82-003-X19990045067Geography: CanadaDescription:
Although health status is strongly associated with residence in a long-term health care facility, the absence of a spouse, low income, low education, and advanced age are also important factors.
Release date: 2000-05-29
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- 11. Health in midlife ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X19990034933Geography: CanadaDescription:
Most Canadians enjoy good health in the middle years, although, not surprisingly, health declines with age.
The prevalence of several chronic conditions and activity limitations due to a health problem has declined for those aged 45 to 64 over the past 20 years. At the same time, the prevalence of asthma and migraine headaches has increased for women aged 45 to 64; diabetes and asthma have increased among men in the same age group.
Lower levels of education and income are associated with an increased likelihood of a decline in health and with chronic illness.
Release date: 2000-03-31 - 12. Health among older adults ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X19990034934Geography: CanadaDescription:
Our improving life expectancy in Canada does not necessarily mean more years in poor health. Older adults can expect an improved quality as well as an extended quantity of life compared with 20 years ago.
Aging does not necessarily result in a continuous decline in health. Close to half of older Canadians who reported fair or poor health in 1994/95 reported an improvement in their health in 1998/99.
The rate of institutionalization for Canadians aged 65 or older declined from 16% in 1981 to 14% in 1996, even with increases in life expectancy.
The rate of activity limitation among adults aged 65 to 74 who live at home has declined since 1978; among adults aged 75 or older who live at home, the rate has not changed since 1978.
The socioeconomic trends observed in younger age groups continue among older adults, although less so. Seniors who did not graduate from high school have increased odds of dying; those with low incomes have increased odds of institutionalization.
Release date: 2000-03-31 - 13. Psychological health - depression ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X19990034935Geography: CanadaDescription:
Depression is twice as prevalent in women as in men. Depression is much more common among younger women than older women.
Depression is a chronic disease - one episode is highly predictive of future episodes.
Social support may be a protective factor. Women who lacked emotional support had higher odds of a future depressive episode compared with women with emotional support.
There is a strong association between smoking and depression, but the research evidence concerning the underlying reason is complex.
Release date: 2000-03-31 - 14. Income inequality and mortality among working-age people in Canada and the United States ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X19990034936Geography: CanadaDescription:
Canadian provinces and metropolitan areas had generally lower income inequality and lower mortality than their US counterparts.
Within Canada there was no association between income inequality and mortality at either the provincial or metropolitan area levels. However, this relationship is strong in the United States.
This Canada-United States comparison suggests that the Canadian urban environment may be more beneficial to health than its US counterpart.
Release date: 2000-03-31 - Articles and reports: 82-003-X19990034937Geography: CanadaDescription:
The proportion of young adults aged 20 to 24 who are at least moderately physically active in their leisure time increased from 1994/95 to 1998/99.
The prevalence of smoking among teen girls aged 15 to 19 is higher than among teenage boys.
Heavier drinking (at least five alcoholic drinks per occasion) increased among both males and females from 1994/95 to1998/99. Fully 45% of males aged 20 to 24 did so at least monthly in 1998/99.
Release date: 2000-03-31 - 16. Health care services: recent trends ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X19990034938Geography: CanadaDescription:
In 1998/99, Canadians with low incomes were more likely than those with higher incomes to be heavy users of physician services, to visit emergency departments, to be admitted to hospital, to take multiple medications, and to require home care services.
Despite an increase in coverage in most provinces for prescription drug and dental insurance, significant differences in use of these services remain. Youth, older adults and Canadians with low incomes are less likely to have insurance coverage for dental care and prescription drugs.
The percentage of Canadians who said they had health care needs that were not met increased from 4% in 1994/95 (1.1 million people) to 6% in 1998/99 (1.5 million people).
The likelihood of going to hospital increases with age. It also increases with having a lower income, having less than a secondary level of education, believing oneself to be in poor health, and being a smoker, physically inactive, and overweight.
The risk of hospitalization is similar for both female smokers and male smokers. This represents an important change from past studies, which showed smaller relative risks of hospitalization for female smokers than for male smokers.
Release date: 2000-03-31 - 17. Long working hours and health ArchivedArticles and reports: 75-001-X20000014890Geography: CanadaDescription:
Workers who are spending longer hours on the job may be putting certain aspects of their health at risk. For some of these people, changing to a substantially longer work week may increase the chances of weight gain, smoking or alcohol consumption. (Adapted from an article in the Autumn 1999 issue of Health Reports.)
Release date: 2000-03-08 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X19990015646Geography: CanadaDescription:
The current economic context obliges all partners of health-care systems, whether public or private, to identify those factors that determine the use of health-care services. To increase our understanding of the phenomena that underlie these relationships, Statistics Canada and the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation have established a new database. For a representative sample of the province of Manitoba, cross-sectional micro-data on the level of health of individuals and on their socioeconomic characteristics, and detailed longitudinal data on the use of health-care services have been linked. In this presentation, we will discuss the general context of the linkage of records from various organizations, the protection of privacy and confidentiality. We will also present results of studies which should not have been performed in the absence of the linked database.
Release date: 2000-03-02
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- 1. Health Care in Canada ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 82-222-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
These two reports provide up-to-date information on the health of Canadians in all regions. They describe how differences in health status are related to various health determinants and how the health care system affects health. Data are from Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
Release date: 2000-06-22
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