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The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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This study examines ethnic based differences in economic and health status. We combine existing literature with our … analysis of data from the Canadian Census and National Population Health Survey. If a given sub-topic is well researched, we …-differentiated. Yet recent immigrants, especially from Asia, are advantaged in health outcomes compared to Canadian-born persons – the …
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Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … -- that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
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Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
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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 …
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Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between … health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible problems with self-reported health …, including endogeneity and measurement error, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the …
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For some time researchers have known that the relationship between health and the residential mobility of the elderly … age groups. However, the onset of poor health differs considerably by individual, particularly for the "young-old". Multi … in the relationship between one of the two mid-life health measures and residential mobility, and the results for both …
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-economic status through increases in income or consumption but can also be detrimental to the health status and emotional well … migration on a broad range of variables that include socio economic outcomes such as consumption, nutrition, health status and … emotional well-being for adult household members and health and schooling outcomes for children. We find consistent results for …
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Human Development, if not engendered, is endangered. That is the simple but far-reaching message of Human Development Report 1995. The Report analyses the progress made in reducing gender disparities in the past few decades, highlighting the wide and persistent gap between women's expanding...
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Eradicating poverty everywhere is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the most … important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the resources and the know-how to create a poverty …-free world in less than a generation. The Report focuses not just on poverty of incomes but on poverty from a human development …
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