Health Reports

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Health Reports – Volume 20, No. 3: September 2009

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• "Developmental pathways leading to obesity in childhood" identifies, in a representative sample of Canadian children, age-related patterns of overweight and obesity between toddlerhood and childhood. The data are from cycles 2 through 5 (1996/1997 to 2002/2003) of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. The sample comprised children aged 24 to 35 months at baseline, who were followed biennially over six years.
• "Diet quality in Canada" presents an adaptation of that index and outlines results for Canada based on data from the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey – Nutrition.
• "Health status, preventive behaviour and risk factors among female nurses" compares the health status, preventive behaviour and risk factors of female nurses with those of other employed postsecondary-educated women.
• "Smoking cessation: intentions, attempts and techniques" uses data from the 2006 Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey to examine: factors associated with intentions to quit smoking; factors associated with one or more quit attempts; smokers' reasons for relapse; their use of cessation aids and strategies; and their receipt of cessation advice from health professionals.
• "An update on mammography use in Canada" updates mammography use by Canadian women aged 50 to 69, and reports trends from 1990 to 2008 among the provinces.
• "Colorectal cancer testing in Canada 2008" provides estimates of the reported level of colorectal cancer testing in the Canadian population aged 50 or older in 2008.

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Volume 20, No. 2: June 2009

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• "Factors related to on-the-job abuse of nurses by patients" examines physical and emotional abuse from patients in nurses working in hospitals or long-term care facilities.
• "The influence of childhood obesity on the development of self-esteem," examines longitudinal relationships between body weight and self-esteem in a nationally representative sample of Canadian children.
• "Variations by health region in treatment and survival after heart attack," examines geographical variations in 30-day revascularization rates and 30-day in-hospital mortality rates for Canadian heart attack patients.
• "Identifying deliberate self-harm in emergency department data" uses emergency department data from Ontario to investigate the possibility that some emergency department presentations coded "undetermined" may actually be "deliberate self-harm".
• "Validation of disability categories derived from Health Utilities Index Mark 3 scores" establishes empirical evidence for the validity of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 disability categories with data from a nationally representative sample of Canadians.

Volume 20, No. 1: March 2009

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• "Cancer prevalence in the Canadian population" provides more precise and detailed estimates of cancer prevalence than have been available previously.
• "Income and psychological distress: The role of the social environment" examines the relationship between lower income and the risk of experiencing high psychological distress over 12 years.
• Taking account of the impacts of institutionalization and death, the study "The natural history of health-related quality of life: A 10-year cohort study" describes the normative trajectories of health-related quality of life in Canada as individuals age from mid- to late life.
• "Medication use among senior Canadians" presents information about the number of seniors who use medications and those who have an elevated risk of drug-related adverse events from multiple medication use.
• "Evaluation of the coverage of linked Canadian Community Health Survey and hospital inpatient records" assesses the coverage of the linkage between data from cycle 1.1 of the Canadian Community Health Survey and inpatient hospital data.
• "Combining cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey" presents methods of combining cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey and discusses issues to consider if these data are to be combined.

Volume 19, No. 4: December 2008

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• Why does the social gradient in health not apply to overweight?
• Beverage consumption of children and teens
• Beverage consumption of Canadian adults
• Lead, mercury and cadmium levels in Canadians
• Under-reporting of energy intake in the Canadian Community Health Survey
• Impact of identifying plausible respondents on the under-reporting of energy intake in the Canadian Community Health Survey
• The concentration-coverage curve: A tool for ecological studies