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Changements épidémiologiques au Canada: Un regard sur les causes de décès des personnes âgées de 65 ans et plus, 1979-2007
Boucher, Marie-Pier Bergeron - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2012
With a lower and lower mortality at younger ages, gains in life expectancy are heavily dependent on improvements in old age survival. However, over the last three decades, life expectancies at ages 65 and 85 did not show a constant rate of progress. Changes in life expectancy come from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010579419
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Looking for Private Information in Self-Assessed Health
Banks, James; Crossley, Thomas; Goshev, Simo - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635232
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Looking for Private Information in Self-Assessed Health
Banks, James; Crossley, Thomas; Goshev, Simo - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635288
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Car Driving and Public Transit Use in Canadian Metropolitan Areas: Focus on Elderly and Role of Health and Social Network Factors
Mercado, Ruben G.; Newbold, K. Bruce - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009
Most studies analyzed the impact of decreased mobility on health and social network status, but only a few have … linkage between people’s car driving and public transit use in Canada and their personal, health and social network … characteristics, with a focus on the elderly population. The study exploits Statistics Canada’s General Social Survey (GSS-19), a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005404428