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 …

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 …

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 …

Being higher on the socioeconomic scale is correlated with being in better health, but is there is a causal … 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 …

. 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 …

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 …

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 endogeneity of self- reported health …, particularly "justification bias", and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the decision to work …

Being higher on the socioeconomic scale is correlated with being in better health, but is there is a causal … 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 …

early retirement incentive, a health problem, mandatory retirement, lack of control with too many job strains, or to provide … of retiring involuntarily was greater for those with poor health at retirement, the age of onset was over 55, higher … health selection into involuntary retirement depends on social location defined by age and education. Policy initiatives that …

This paper takes advantage of 2006 Census data, the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the Canadian Community Health … Survey (CCHS) to highlight some basic demographic trends among Older Aboriginal Peoples, their health status and their use of … health services in the first part of this paper. In the second part of the paper, we connect the findings to what has been …