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 …

population, as well as higher infant mortality rates and lower life expectancy. Calls for a new approach to health service … medicines and healing approaches. However, there has been little empirical research on how widespread traditional health …. Given the advantages of having aboriginal people involved in their own health care, coupled with the secrecy required by …

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 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 …