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 …

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 … unique survey with a nationally representative sample that contains questions on health, social network and transportation …

research about the effects of life course instability in mid- to late-life on health, but limited research on instability early … later in life has adverse health consequences is great and merits further investigation. …

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 …

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 …

This paper examines the differential impact of social forces on the health of men and women aged 65+ using data from … the 1994-1995 National Population Health Survey. Multiple regression analysis is used to estimate gender differences in … the influence of socio-economic, lifestyle, and psychosocial factors on both self-rated health and overall functional …

current and future physical health. Attention is focused on the incidence of these activities among immigrant and minority … no significant change with years-since-migration in any of the health behaviors for immigrant women. Canadian born …

While adults from all socio-economic status (SES) levels generally encounter a decline in health as they grow older …, research shows that health status is tied to SES at all stages of life. The dynamics of the relationship between SES and health …, which postulates that the SES- based gap in health widens with age, using a representative sample of Canadians aged 25 to 79 …

conditions affect individual’s health. Five-year cumulative measures of these job characteristics are used to reflect findings in … the physiologic literature that cumulative exposure is most relevant for the impact of hazards and stresses on health … experience declines in their health, although this effect varies by demographic group. For example, for non-white men, a one …

There is a strong positive relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, but identifying the direction of … Dynamics and the National Population Health Survey, to study the link from SES to health. For people aged 50 and older who are … initially in good health we examine whether changes in health status over the next two to four years are related to prior SES …