on middle and old age given the change and increasing diversity in health and health care policy, such as Medicare …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 …

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 …

in the fields of Social Security and health insurance largely explain the defeat of the most ambitious social policy …

role in the organisation and delivery of health care services. This paper investigates the relationship between the … changing nature of local governance and the provision of health care services, and places it within the context of rural … respect to homecare in rural Ontario, and features an analysis of data from the National Population Health Survey and the …

the division of a fixed bundle of a good across settings that differ with respect to the good being allocated (a health … care good — pills, and non-health care but still health-affecting good — apples) and the way that alternative possible … (even though both produce health benefits). We find evidence of only small differences between the university and community …

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 …