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Catalogue Entry: Non-medical Determinants of Health - Male Average Income, 1995
Poverty, usually measured using income, and poor health are closely related. Income is one of the non-medical determinants of health. The poor experience the highest rates of... -
Catalogue Entry: Non-medical Determinants of Health - Incidence of Low Income Cut-Off, 1995
Poverty, usually measured using income, and poor health are closely related. Income is one of the non-medical determinants of health. For most of the 1990’s, the proportion of... -
Catalogue Entry: Non-medical Determinants of Health: Female Average Income, 1995
Poverty, usually measured using income, and poor health are closely related. Income is one of the non-medical determinants of health. The poor experience the highest rates of... -
Catalogue Entry: Non-medical Determinants of Health - Post-secondary Graduates, 1996
The highest proportion of post-secondary graduates can be found in the health regions where there is one or more relatively large urban centre. Canada has an excellent record in... -
Catalogue Entry: Non-medical Determinants of Health - High School Graduates, 1996
There is a tendency for life expectancy to be higher in those regions where high school attainment has been graduation by most individuals in this age grouping (25 to 29 years).... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Status: Low Birthweight – Mothers Aged 20 to 39 Years
There are low numbers of low birthweight babies in this age category, but this is not unexpected since the younger and older mothers, who have higher rates of low birthweight... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Status: Low Birthweight – Mothers Aged 15 to 19 Years
Teen mothers often have a higher proportion of low birthweight babies than do mothers in the 20 to 39 year age group. There is a significant concentration of high low... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Status: Low Birthweight – Mothers 40 Years of Age and Older
This age group of mothers has tendency towards higher proportions (often 8.0% and over) of low birthweight babies. On this map only the cities are represented because there is a... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Status: Low Birthweight – Mothers 15 Years of Age and Older
The Atlantic Provinces have a higher proportion of low birthweight births than most other areas in Canada. As one moves west through the Prairies, then to British Columbia, and... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Status: Breast Cancer Ratios, 1986 to 1995
This map uses age-standardized ratios to further aid in regional comparisons. A value of 1.0 would indicate that the region rate is identical to the overall Canadian rate; a... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Status: Breast Cancer Rates, 1986 to 1995
One woman in nine can expect to develop breast cancer during her lifetime and one in 25 will die from the disease. Statistically low incidences of breast cancer are found in... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Services Utilization: Physician Utilization, 1996 to 1997
During 1997 close to 80% of Canadians made use of the services of a family physician. For Canada as a whole, and for each province, the majority of the population, close to 58%,... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Services Utilization: Dental Services Utilization, 1996 to 1997
The use of the services of a dentist or orthodontist for Canada as a whole was just under 60%. It was far lower than physician utilization in 1997. Use ranges from a low of 46%... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Resources: Population-to-specialist Ratios, 1996
Canada’s average population to specialist physician ratio has been 1100:1 for over a decade. Low ratios are generally associated with urban areas. The region with the highest... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Resources: Population-to-physician Ratios, 1996
Major cities are associated with comparatively few people per physician; every province has one or more census divisions in which the ratio is less than or equal to 550:1. None... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Resources: Population-to-family Physician Ratios, 1996
Neither rural areas nor urban areas predominate with respect to any specific range of the family physician ratios. The Federal and Provincial Advisory Committee on Health... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Resources: Population-to-nurse Ratios, 1996
Areas with a ratio of 100:1 or lower are found mainly in eastern Canada and Manitoba. These are areas where the number of registered nurses per capita is higher than the... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Behaviours: Prevalence of Smoking, 1996 to 1997
Prevalence of smoking is measured as the proportion of all persons 12 years of age and older who smoked daily or occasionally in 1996 to 1997 for each province. Smoking is a... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Behaviours: Prevalence of Smokers Considering Quitting, 1996 to 1997
Prevalence is measured as the proportion of daily smokers in each province who were considering quitting. Smoking is a health behaviour that deteriorates health. Smoking is the... -
Catalogue Entry: Health Behaviours: Population Who Were Overweight, 1996 to 1997
Many health professionals in Canada consider that obesity has reached or is nearing epidemic proportions in this country. Most scientific evidence is supportive of physical...