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Health Reports, May 2014

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Released: 2014-05-21

The May 2014 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains two articles.

The first article, "Self-reported financial barriers to care among patients with cardiovascular-related chronic conditions," is based on a survey conducted in the four western provinces that collected data on self-reported financial barriers to health care among adults who reported that they had been diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and/or stroke. The goals were to determine the prevalence of various types of self-reported financial barriers, factors associated with experiencing these barriers, and their implications. This study sought to determine whether self-reported financial barriers were associated with lower use of guideline-recommended medications, stopping use of one or more recommended medications, and greater out-of-pocket expenditures. The association between self-reported financial barriers and chronic condition-related emergency department visits and hospitalization was also assessed.

For more information on this article, contact David Campbell (403-620-5505; dcampbel@ucalgary.ca), University of Calgary.

The second article, "Are the fittest Canadian adults the healthiest?," analyzes data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey (cycles 1 and 2) to examine associations between the results of a standard fitness appraisal and selected health outcomes among Canadians aged 15 to 69. The aim is to determine whether people in higher fitness categories are indeed healthier than those in lower categories.

For more information on this article, contact Shilpa Dogra (905-721-8668 ext. 6240; shilpa.dogra@uoit.ca), University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

The May 2014 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 25, no. 5 (Catalogue number82-003-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.

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