Once age and gender composition is controlled for, regional health differentials are a function of problems of health … service delivery, of socio-economic variance, and overall Maori Pakeha health differences. They indicate relative levels of …

alter their probability of experiencing future years in various degraded health states. The novel aspects of this model … utilities, we may evaluate a broad spectrum of probabilistic health outcomes over any period of an individualÂ’s future life …

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 …

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 …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for … health care. After demonstrating the logic of the investigation, the paper recapitulates the information about results of …

skills (such as literacy) to a large extent, but income, health knowledge, and fertility preferences also play a role. The …