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Public Policy, Gender, Marriage, And Self-Rated Health, Sean Clouston, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Public Policy, Gender, Marriage, And Self-Rated Health, Sean Clouston, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)
Married people live longer than those who remain single both in Canada and the USA, with men showing the most gain from marriage. The benefit to marriage has been exlpicated in four different ways: marital benefits, with protective benefits going mostly to men; negative selection, with sicker individuals seeking healthcare from their spouses in a health-poor policy environment; clean-up for marriage, whereby mostly male risky behaviors are left behind prior to marriage; and positive selection, suggesting instead that the marital selection process is tied to health indicators evident in social circumstances. The importance of social policy to these realms is …
Canadian Health Measures Survey, Colleen Bolger
Canadian Health Measures Survey, Colleen Bolger
Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)
Colleen Bolger is an analyst at Statistics Canada who has worked on developing data products and services for researchers for over 20 years. Currently working on the first data releases for the Canadian Health Measures Survey that integrates physical measurements and scientific data into population health information sources, she has worked on the development of the National Population Health Survey, integrated socio-economic journals such as Perspectives on Labour and Income and provided remote data services to international scholars for OECD publications. As a former senior scientific and economic editor at Statistics Canada, she guided many research papers and population studies …
Statistics Canada National Population Health Surveys (Nphs), Amir Erfani
Statistics Canada National Population Health Surveys (Nphs), Amir Erfani
Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)
Amir Erfani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nipissing University in Ontario, with a PhD. in Sociology from the University of Western Ontario. His research is in the areas of social, family, and health demography, studying reproductive health, health inequality over the life course, family transformation and childbearing behavior in developed and developing countries. Amir has recently studied induced abortion, contraceptive behavior, and low fertility in Iran; socioeconomic status and health over the life course in Canada and the U.S.; and familial orientations and childbearing behavior and non-marital births of Canadians.
Health Data In Ontario, Susan Bondy
Health Data In Ontario, Susan Bondy
Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)
No abstract provided.
Everyone's A Critic: Addressing Criticisms Of Multiculturalism And Immigration, John Biles
Everyone's A Critic: Addressing Criticisms Of Multiculturalism And Immigration, John Biles
Migration and Ethnic Relations Colloquium Series
No abstract provided.