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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

pension, old age security, and health care systems mean that the financial preparations that people make are becoming … Independence are used to investigate the role of health and age in the financial preparations that households make for later life … analyzed using logistic regression. Findings indicate that compared to respondents in poor health, respondents in better health …

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 …

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 …