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A Canadian peer-reviewed journal of population health and health services research
December 2014
Professional and informal mental health support reported by Canadians aged 15 to 24
by Leanne C. Findlay and Adam Sunderland
The mental health of youth and young adults, including the provision of services targeted to their needs, has been identified as a global public health challenge. In Canada, the prevalence of mood and substance disorders is higher among younger than older people. Mental health disorders often surface during youth and young adulthood, and can have negative lifelong consequences. However, youth/young adulthood is a transitional phase when opportunities for intervention exist.
Gender gaps—Life expectancy and proportion of life in poor health
by Marc Luy and Yuka Minagawa
In the 1920s, a pattern began to emerge in the health and mortality of men and women: as described by Lorber and Moore, "Women get sicker, but men die quicker.� Although men's mortality rate exceeds that of women at all ages, women tend to report worse health. Even excluding reproductive conditions, a sizeable gender difference remains in the prevalence of acute conditions and short-term disability. Older women exhibit greater rates of decline in physical functioning, are less likely to recover from disability, and more frequently report pain. Some studies find that women use health care services and prescription and non-prescription drugs more often than men do. These observations have prompted a great deal of research, construing the phenomenon as the "gender and health paradox,� the "paradox of 'weak but strong women' and 'tough but weak men,�' or the "male-female health-survival paradox.�
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