Contributing within Canada and abroad

On the home front, we recently released several analyses to showcase the potential of the National Population Health Survey (NPHS). Our Recent releases section highlights these findings for 1994/95 to 2002/03:

• once people are overweight, they are more likely to gain even more weight than to take it off;


• unhealthy behaviours may have a delayed effect, catching up to seniors;


• recent immigrants from non-European countries are twice as likely as the Canadian-born to experience deterioration in their health.

Abroad, we presented our work on the Population Health Impact of Disease in Canada (PHI) at the University of Queensland to a group that will launch the Ellison Institute for World Health late in 2005. We also presented at a World Health Organization meeting on the burden of noise. You can now access the PHI website at
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/phi-isp/index.html

We presented our work on health disparities and the Joint Canada-US Survey of Health to the AcademyHealth meeting on health services research and the Harkness Associates meetings of the US Commonwealth Fund.

Our Work in progress section describes another analysis using NPHS. And, as usual, we have new articles and presentations.