The December 2009 print edition of Health Reports
contains seven articles, all of which have appeared previously in the free
online edition:
- Area-based indicators are commonly used to measure and track
health outcomes by socio-economic group. This is largely because of the absence
of information about individuals in health health administrative databases. "A
comparison of individual and area-based socio-economic data for monitoring
social inequalities in health" compares area-based and individual
indicators.
- "Mortality of Métis Canadian and Registered Indian
adults: An 11-year follow-up study" describes and contrasts mortality patterns
among Métis and Registered Indian adults with those of the population of
Canada as a whole.
- In the study "Smokers' use of acute care hospitals: A
prospective study," data from the 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health Survey
were linked to the Hospital Person-Oriented Information Database, permitting
prospective measures of hospital use by smoking status and age.
- "Income disparities in health-adjusted life expectancy for
Canadian adults, 1991 to 2001" profiles differences in health-adjusted life
expectancy across income categories for a representative sample of the Canadian
population. Mortality data were obtained from the 1991-2001 Canadian census
mortality follow-up study, which linked a 15% sample of the 1991 adult
non-institutional population with 11 years of death records from the Canadian
Mortality Data Base.
- "Social class, gender, and time use: Implications for the
social determinants of body weight?" examines time-use patterns by indicators
of socio-economic position, and considers the implications of variations in
time use for the social gradient in weight reported in other studies. The data
are from the 1986 and 2005 General Social Survey, which focused on time
use.
- "Diet composition and obesity among Canadian adults" examines
the association between obesity and the relative percentages of fats,
carbohydrates, protein and fibre in the diets of Canadians. The data are from
the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey - Nutrition.
- "Risk factors and chronic conditions among Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal populations" compares several major risk factors and chronic
conditions in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations not living on reserves
in the North (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut) and in southern Canada at
two time points. The data are from cycle 1.1 (2000/2001) and cycle 3.1
(2005/2006) of the Canadian Community Health Survey.
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