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 …

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 …

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 Aboriginal population in Canada, much younger than the general population, has experienced a trend towards aging … over the past decade. Using data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health … Survey (CCHS), this article examines differences in health status and the determinants of health and health care use between …

Even though universal health care is one of the fundamental pillars of Canadian society, the rising cost of all … econometric analyses of health service use in Canada include broad controls by province and rural/urban status, there has been … relatively little econometric work that has focused specifically on geographical variation in health service use. Using the 2002 …

are related to lower levels of population health with updated data from around year 2000. Second, to examine the … inequality-health relationship across the life course with particular focus on old age when income distributions often shift ….<br> Conclusions -- These updated results do not support the inequality-health hypothesis. The relationship between income inequality …

An abundance of literature links socio-economic status to health and health care in Canada and other countries. Recent … anecdotal evidence indicates that Canadians believe their access to health care is diminishing over time. This study provides a … brief description of utilization patterns in health-care services provided under public health insurance (physicians …