There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper … index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …

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 …

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 …

. Beside marital status, family networks and living arrangements, future health status of the elderly is a key variable, but an … intricate one. Since health status transitions were previously conditioned only on age and sex, we will use here the current … disability module of LifePaths with longitudinal data from Canada’s National Population Health Survey (NPHS). These new health …

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 …