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Health Reports, September 2013

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Released: 2013-09-18

The September 2013 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains two articles.

The article, "Perceived need for mental health care in Canada: Results from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey - Mental Health," uses data from the new 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey – Mental Health to present a comprehensive description of Canadians' perceived mental health care (MHC) needs for information, medication, counselling and other services. The article also examines the degree to which each of these types of needs was met (i.e., unmet, partially met, or met), as well as the associations between risk factors for not getting MHC needs met and the degree to which needs were met.

For more information on this article, contact Leanne Findlay (613-951-4648; leanne.findlay@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.

The second article, "Validation of an index to estimate the prevalence of frailty among community-dwelling seniors," applies a frailty index to a sample of community-dwelling seniors in Canada and validates a cut-point at which individuals can be considered frail. Combined data from the 2003 (cycle 2.1) and 2005 (cycle 3.1) Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) were linked prospectively to hospital administrative data to determine ranges of frailty scores associated with higher versus lower risks of hospital-related events. A second objective is to apply the validated cut-points to 2009/2010 CCHS data to estimate frailty prevalence and present a profile of community-dwelling Canadian seniors who are considered frail.

For more information on this article, contact Melanie Hoover (613-951-0346; melanie.hoover@statcan.gc.ca), Health Statistics Division.

The September 2013 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 24, no. 9 (Catalogue number82-003-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.

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