abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article examines socioeconomic differences in supplementary insurance for prescription drugs among Canadians aged 15 or older and how the availability of such insurance affects prescription drug use. DATA SOURCE:The data on prescription drug insurance coverage and drug use are from the cross-sectional ...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Millar WJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article examines the association between maternal education, smoking and other risk factors and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) births. DATA SOURCE:The data are from the 1994/95 National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. The analysis was restricted to a subsample of 4,181 children younger than...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Millar WJ,Chen J

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article examines differences in health status and health determinants between residents of the North (Yukon and Northwest Territories) and of the provinces, and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal territorial residents. The use of health services and medications is also analyzed. DATA SOURCE:The data...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Diverty B,Pérez C

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1991, the National Task Force on Health Information recommended that in order to assess the health of Canadians, the health information system should include an aggregate index of population health. This article presents such an index--Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)--as one possibility in a range of indicat...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Wolfson MC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1974 to 1994, the number of children Canadian women are likely to have during their lifetime decreased. This downturn in fertility meant that the annual number of live births rose only slightly during this period, even though it marked the prime childbearing years for the baby-boom generation. As they pursued hig...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Ford D,Nault F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospital morbidity data are useful for administrative purposes, but because Canadian data are based on the number of hospital visits for a given diagnosis rather than the number of patients with the diagnosis, they have historically been ineffective in determining how many people have been hospitalized with a given co...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Johansen H,Nair C,Bond J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke surveillance is the gateway to information about etiology, risk, prognosis, prevention and intervention as well as disease distribution and time trends. While most stroke surveillance has focused on mortality, there is an increasing need to know what the impact is on the community of stroke incidence and preval...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Wielgosz AT

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is the leading cause of death in Portugal, accounting for about 20% of total mortality, despite a 25% decline in death rates from cerebrovascular diseases between 1980 and 1989. Epidemiological observations demonstrating that the high rates of cerebrovascular disease are accompanied by high levels of blood pres...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Carrageta MO,Negrao L,de Padua F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiology is the study of the natural history of disease or injury. For a given disorder, this includes its definition, frequency, severity, course and risk factors. Only population-based rates provide data that can be compared among studies. These rates are the incidence or attack rate, the mortality or death rate...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Kurtzke JF

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a proportion of total abortions, those performed in the second trimester declined from 21% in 1974 to 10% in 1991. Second trimester (13 to 24 weeks) abortions were more frequent among women who were single, under age 20, and without prior deliveries or abortions. The stage of pregnancy at which an abortion was perf...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Wadhera S,Millar WJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new tool for epidemiological, demographic, and genetic research--the Canadian Birth Data Base-is being developed at Statistics Canada. Over a million live birth and stillbirth records for the period 1987-89 received from all provincial and territorial offices of vital statistics are being processed in a form suitabl...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Fair M,Cyr M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As health care costs continue to rise in Canada, there is a need to evaluate the resources required for diagnosing and treating the major diseases having an impact on Canadian. In 1993, breast cancer was the most predominant female cancer in Canada, both in terms of incidence and mortality. It would be useful to ident...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Will BP,Berthelot JM,Houle C,Verma S,Tomiak E,Evans WK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A National Population Health Survey is being developed for implementation across Canada in 1994. A description is given of the objectives, plans and current status of the survey. The current assumptions concerning the survey methodology are also outlined along with an early indication of the content. ...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Catlin G,Will P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports preliminary and selected results of an analysis of the frequencies of 36 common surgical procedures in hospitals across Canada during the period April 1985 to March 1987. Age-sex-specific and age-sex-standardized procedure rates were calculated for each procedure for each of 245 Census Divisions (CD...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Gentleman JF,Wilkins R,Nair C,Beaulieu S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1986, out of a total of 711,725 Canadians of aboriginal ancestry, 86,505 reported having some level of disability. This article profiles disabled aboriginal persons living both on-and off-reserve, presenting data from Statistics Canada's 1986 Census of Population and the Health and Activity Limitation Survey (HALS)...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Hamilton MK

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes hospital discharges and deaths from 1971 to 1986 for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The data are based on hospital morbidity and mortality statistics provided to Statistics Canada by the provinces. For Crohn's disease, age-stan...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Rod Riley

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A standard method of collecting identifying data for medical follow-up studies has been developed by Statistics Canada. By helping improve health record-keeping, this method has the potential to make it easier to track populations exposed to potentially hazardous agents through lifestyle, work, environmental factors, ...

journal_title：Health reports

authors： Carpenter M,Fair ME

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00