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 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 …

over the past decade. Using data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health … Survey (CCHS), this article examines differences in health status and the determinants of health and health care use between … population is unhealthier than the non-Aboriginal population across all age groups; differences in health status, however, appear …

It is well accepted that education is positively related to health. However, there is considerably less agreement as to … the explanation of this relationship. I examine the strength of the empirical relationship between education and health … for Australia and Canada. I find that education is indeed related to health and to a very similar extent in both countries …

Objectives - This study examined the associations among coping humor, other personal/social factors, and the health … adults. Included were measures of coping humor, spirituality, self-efficacy, social support and physical and mental health …-efficacy contributed to outcome variance in measures of mental health status. Contrary to expectation, neither social support nor …

expected impact of changes in need (age and health status) on expenditure in a given national health care system allows one to … individual level. I use morbidity as an indicator of health and test for endogeneity of health to expenditure, as well as for … temporal stability of the relationship between health and medical care. …

The government of Canada is committed to closing the health status gap between First Nation’s (FN) and non-First Nation … evidence of effective programming, it must monitor the health and well-being of its First Nations and Inuit populations over … time. Evidence on the health status of FN peoples living on-reserve is difficult to obtain due to limited data sources …

This study estimates the effects of a mandatory, universal prescription drug insurance program in a public health care … private plan. Using the 1994 to 2003 data of the National Population Health Survey and a difference-in-differences approach … hospitalization. Findings from quantile regressions suggest that there is a significant improvement in the health status of less …

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 …