This paper takes advantage of 2006 Census data, the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the Canadian Community Health … Survey (CCHS) to highlight some basic demographic trends among Older Aboriginal Peoples, their health status and their use of … health services in the first part of this paper. In the second part of the paper, we connect the findings to what has been …

There is a strong positive relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, but identifying the direction of … Dynamics and the National Population Health Survey, to study the link from SES to health. For people aged 50 and older who are … initially in good health we examine whether changes in health status over the next two to four years are related to prior SES …

There is a strong positive relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, but identifying the direction of … Dynamics and the National Population Health Survey, to study the link from SES to health. For people aged 50 and older who are … initially in good health we examine whether changes in health status over the next two to four years are related to prior SES …

current and future physical health. Attention is focused on the incidence of these activities among immigrant and minority … no significant change with years-since-migration in any of the health behaviors for immigrant women. Canadian born …

The paper investigates whether self-assessed health status (SAH) contains information about future mortality and …-existing diagnosed medical conditions). Using a ten-year span of the Canadian National Population Health Survey, we find that SAH does …

The paper investigates whether self-assessed health status (SAH) contains information about future mortality and …-existing diagnosed medical conditions). Using a ten-year span of the Canadian National Population Health Survey, we find that SAH does …

Little comparative research exists on health experiences and conditions of minority groups in Canada and the United … article explores race and immigrant disparities in health and health care access across the two countries. The study focus was … on middle and old age given the change and increasing diversity in health and health care policy, such as Medicare …

population, as well as higher infant mortality rates and lower life expectancy. Calls for a new approach to health service … medicines and healing approaches. However, there has been little empirical research on how widespread traditional health …. Given the advantages of having aboriginal people involved in their own health care, coupled with the secrecy required by …

health behaviors and health service use related to cancer incidence and diagnosis can be accounted for by demographic, socio …-01 and 2004-05 Canadian Community Health Surveys and the 2001 Aboriginal People’s Survey. Methods – Multivariate Logistic … regression analysis is applied to 1) a set of health behaviors including smoking, binge drinking and obesity, and 2) a set of …