recession. The looming question for Canadian public health care services is "How will public administrations in Canada sustain … their health care expenditures during the next few years, given the pressure from debt recovery and the new federal payment … transfer for health care?” To examine these issues, variations from 1989 to 2009 in Canadian public administration health care …

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 …

health behaviors and health service use related to cancer incidence and diagnosis can be accounted for by demographic, socio …-01 and 2004-05 Canadian Community Health Surveys and the 2001 Aboriginal People’s Survey. Methods – Multivariate Logistic … regression analysis is applied to 1) a set of health behaviors including smoking, binge drinking and obesity, and 2) a set of …

poorer health than their Canadian-born counterparts. Using data from the 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health Survey, the … current study tests two hypotheses to explain the health gap between these two groups. Findings indicate support for the … differential vulnerability hypothesis but not for the differential exposure hypothesis in explaining the health gap between …

Health Pharmacare program in 1995, on its program expenditures for seniors, out of pocket costs paid by its senior … beneficiaries, indicators of beneficiary health status and attendant Ministry of Health expenditures on physicians and hospitals … patient health will be compromised and use of other non-pharmacologic health services may increase as a result, thus partially …

We examine the effect of income inequality on individual self-rated health status in a pooled sample of 10 member … advantage of the longitudinal and cross-national nature of our data, and carefully modelling the self-reported health … negatively related to self-rate health status in the European Union for both men and women. However, despite its statistical …

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 …

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 …