Health Survey, we examine the causal effect of income on adult body mass index (BMI) and obesity in Canada using an …

With today’s escalating demands for accountability, Canada’s academic-linked health policy centres are feeling pressure … from key funders to prove their effectiveness. At the same time, their contributions through applied health services and … policy research and knowledge-transfer activities have become increasingly critical to health policy development and decision …

There is a widespread impression among Canadians that their health-care system is universal, comprehensive and …. The Canada Health Act (CHA) uses the term "medically necessary" to define medical procedures and treatments to be paid for … by the publicly-funded medicare system. In Canada’s health-care system, the term has come to refer almost exclusively to …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … administrative tax records to investigate whether a relationship exists between health and well-being on the one hand, and individual …

Using multiple waves of Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked with the Longitudinal … health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical … health challenges that continue post-migration. Better understanding these challenges will help health policy makers and …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … administrative tax records to investigate whether a relationship exists between health and well-being on the one hand, and individual …

Using multiple waves of Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked with the Longitudinal … health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical … health challenges that continue post-migration. Better understanding these challenges will help health policy makers and …

of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general …This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …