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 …

conditions affect individual’s health. Five-year cumulative measures of these job characteristics are used to reflect findings in … the physiologic literature that cumulative exposure is most relevant for the impact of hazards and stresses on health … experience declines in their health, although this effect varies by demographic group. For example, for non-white men, a one …

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 …

unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on selfassessed health status of subjective perceptions of …We study the psychosocial determinants of health, and their impact on social inequalities in health in France. We use a … of descriptors of health status and behaviours. We find empirical support for the link between the subjective perception …

The government of Canada is committed to closing the health status gap between First Nation’s (FN) and non-First Nation … evidence of effective programming, it must monitor the health and well-being of its First Nations and Inuit populations over … time. Evidence on the health status of FN peoples living on-reserve is difficult to obtain due to limited data sources …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … – but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply … of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …