What's new
Recent articles
Allard Y, Wilkins R, Berthelot J-M. Premature mortality in health
regions with high Aboriginal populations. Health Reports 2004; 15(1):
51-60. :8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=82-003-X20030016765
Flanagan W, Le Petit C, Berthelot J-M, White KJ, Coombs BA, Jones-McLean
E. Potential impact of population-based colorectal cancer screening
in Canada. Chronic Dis Can 2003: 24(4): 81-8.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb-dgspsp/publicat/cdic-mcc/index.html
Kierans W, Kramer M, Wilkins R, Liston R, Foster L, Uh SH, Mohamed
J. Charting birth outcome in British Columbia: determinants of optimal
health and ultimate risk - an expansion and update. Victoria (BC):
British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency; March 2004. 130 pp. http://www.vs.gov.bc.ca/stats/features/index.html
Luo ZC, Liu S, Wilkins R, Kramer MS. Risks of stillbirth and early
neonatal death by day of week. CMAJ 2004; 170(3): 337-41. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/170/3/337.pdf
Luo ZC, Wilkins R, Platt RW, Kramer MS, for the Fetal and Infant
Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System.
Risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes among Inuit and North American
Indian women in Quebec, 1985–97. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol
2004; 18: 40–50.
Lynch J, Davey Smith G, Harper S, Hillemeier M, Ross NA, Kaplan
GA, Wolfson MC. Is income inequality a determinant of population
health? Part 1. A systematic review. Millbank Quarterly 2004; (1):
5-99.
Maroun J, Ng E, Berthelot J-M, Le Petit C, Dahrouge S, Flanagan
WM, et al. Lifetime costs of colon and rectal cancer management
in Canada. Chronic Dis Can 2003; 24(4): 91-101. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb-dgspsp/publicat/cdic-mcc/index.html
Martel L, Bélanger A, Berthelot J-M. Healthy aging: the determinants
of aging without loss of independence among older Canadians. Report
on the Demographic Situation in Canada 2002. (Statistics Canada Catalogue
91-209) 2003; 153-69.
Ng E, Wilkins R, Fung Kee Fung M, Berthelot J-M. Cervical cancer mortality
by neighbourhood income in urban Canada from 1971 to 1996. CMAJ 2004;
170(10): 1545-9. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/170/10/1545.pdf
Sanmartin C, Gendron F, Berthelot J-M, Murphy K. Access to health
care services in Canada, 2003. Statistics Canada Catalogue 82-575-XIE.
Ottawa: Statistics Canada; 2004. http:// http://www.statcan.ca:8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=82-575-X
Sanmartin C, Ng E, Blackwell D, Gentleman J, Martinez M, Simile
C. Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health, 2002-03. Statistics
Canada Catalogue 82M0022XIE. Ottawa: Statistics Canada; 2004. :8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=82M0022X.
Sanmartin C, Ross NA, Tremblay S, Wolfson M, Dunn JR, Lynch J.
Labour market income inequality and mortality in North American
metropolitan areas. J Epidemiol Comm Health 2003; 57(10): 792-7.
Sanmartin CA and the Steering Committee of the Western Canada Waiting
List Project. Toward standard definitions for waiting times. Healthcare
Management Forum (online) Fall 2003. http://www.cchse.org/Forum/Summer2003/Sanmartin%20final.pdf
Tremblay S, Dahinten S, Kohen D. Factors related to adolescents’
self-perceived health. Health reports–Supplement. (Statistics
Canada Catalogue 82-003-SIE) 2003; 7-16. :8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=82-003-S&CHROPG=1
Wilkins R. PCCF+ Version 4D User’s Guide. Automated geographic
coding based on the Statistics Canada Postal Code Conversion files,
including postal codes to December 2003. Statistics Canada Catalogue
82-F0086-XDB. Ottawa: Health Analysis and Measurement Group, Statistics
Canada; 2004. :8096/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=82F0086XDB
Announcements
Congratulations to Russell Wilkins, whose responsibilities
as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community
Medicine at the University of Ottawa have been renewed for another
three years. Russell also organized the Canadian Population Society’s
annual meetings at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
in Winnipeg, Manitoba. For the agenda and abstracts, see http://www.canpopsoc.org
Congratulations to our manager, Jean-Marie Berthelot,
one of two Canadians selected for a Harkness Associate award by
the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHRSF) and the
Commonwealth Fund. This award, which involves participation in five
international meetings over the next year, recognizes his contribution
to research in health disparities and health care services and his
ability to communicate them to the international research community.
For more information, see the CHSRF website at http://www.chsrf.ca/funding_opportunities/harkness/2004_e.php
Jean-Marie also received Professional Statistician accreditation
from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). In March 2004, the
SSC formally established a program of accreditation for professional
statisticians who practice in Canada.
We are also pleased to announce that Dafna Kohen
has been invited to be an Adjunct Professor in the Department of
Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa
and an Affiliate Scientist with the Science Program Group of the
Institute of Population Health. She will be coinvestigator on a
project called the Ottawa Equity Gauge and will “contribute
to the training of highly qualified personnel in population health.”
Junling Ma has been working with us since January
using mortality data to infer patterns of influenza incidence with
the aid of administrative data and microsimulation. This analysis
will provide an evidence base that contributes to developing improved
control strategies.
Sharanjit Uppal joined us this spring as part
of the ES recruitment program. Sharanjit will be working on a study
of mental health in the Canadian armed forces and on other analytical
projects.
Kathryn O’Grady, a master’s student
in epidemiology at the University of Ottawa, is examining the effect
of neighbourhood economic characteristics on the health of individuals.
Chantelle Richmond, a doctoral student at McGill
University, is examining the dimensions of health in the Aboriginal
Peoples Survey.
Seminars and presentations
Another exciting seminar series finished on May 26, 2004. See you
in the fall!
HAMG Seminar Series 2003-04
| October 16 |
Robert Choinière (Institut national de
santé publique du Québec) |
Mortality in Québec: an international comparison
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| October 27 |
Edward Ng (HAMG) |
Cervical cancer mortality by income in urban Canada, from
1971 to 1996 |
| November 10 |
Philippe Finès (HAMG) |
The income–mortality gradient in the Ottawa-Gatineau
CMA |
| November 24 |
Yves Carrière and Laurent Martel (Demography Division)
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Projecting future needs for home care services accounting
for the changing family structure |
| December 12 |
Nancy Ross (McGill University) |
Health inequalities: patterns and processes of social pathologies |
| January 21 |
Claudia Sanmartin (HAMG) |
When is waiting for care unacceptable?: The views and experiences
of Canadian patients |
| February 18 |
Mark Tremblay (Statistics Canada)
Doug Haines (Health Canada)
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Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS)
Human biomonitoring of environmental chemicals
|
| March 31 |
David Earn (McMaster University) |
Dynamics of childhood diseases |
| April 14 |
Tom Noseworthy (Western Canada Waiting List Project) |
Western Canada Waiting List Project |
| May 12 |
Jane Boswell-Purdy (Health Canada), William Flanagan (HAMG)
|
The population health impact of cancer in Canada, 2001 |
| May 26 |
Stéphane Tremblay (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) |
Are teenagers representative of health? |
Presentations by HAMG analysts at conferences
First Health Statistics Data Users Conference, Ottawa, September
7-9, 2003
| Jean-Marie Berthelot |
Potential impact of colorectal cancer screening |
| Jean-Pierre Courteau |
Socio-economic indicators and health in urban Outaouais: a
strained connection (with Philippe Finès) |
| Nancy Ross |
Health inequalities between and within Canadian metropolitan
areas |
| Russell Wilkins |
Socio-economic inequalities in health outcomes |
International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQoL), Prague,
November 12-15, 2003
| Sarah Gorber, Julie Bernier |
Workshop on health preference measurement exercises |
| Julie Bernier |
The measurement of preferences toward health states using
the Classification and Measurement System of Functional Health
(CLAMES) |
Atelier pour les étudiants des programmes conjoints (INRS
- Université de Montréal) en démographie. Ottawa,
September 19, 2003
| Russell Wilkins |
Data and methods for evaluating socio-economic
inequalities and health status* |
2003 International Conference on Health Policy, Chicago (IL), October
17-19, 2003
| Christel Le Petit |
Potential impact of population-based colorectal
cancer screening in Canada |
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Symposium, January
20, 2004
| Sarah Gorber, Julie Bernier |
Workshop on health preference measurement exercises |
Population Association of America (PAA), Boston, April 1-3, 2004
| Edward Ng |
Healthy immigrant effect in Canada: a longitudinal
perspective using National Population Health Surveys |
New Investigators’ Meeting of the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research (CIAR), Toronto, April 2004
| Dafna Kohen, Nancy Ross |
Urban environments and children’s gradients |
Young Investigators in Circulatory and Respiratory Health meeting,
Winnipeg, May 6-9, 2004
| Jean-Marie Berthelot |
From data to database development to useful information |
ACFAS (Association francophone pour le savoir), Montréal,
May 10-14, 2004
| Russell Wilkins |
Birth outcomes in common-law versus traditional
marriages in Québec, 1990 to 1999* |
| Philippe Finès |
Modeling life expectancy at birth in small Canadian cities* |
2004 REVES (International Network on Health Expectancy and the
Disability Process / Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé)
conference, Brugges, Belgium, May 17 -19, 2004
| Jean-Marie Berthelot |
Preferences of Canadians toward health states
|
| Jean-Marie Berthelot |
Canadian population health impact of cancer |
Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research, Montreal,
May 26-28, 2004
| Claudia Sanmartin |
When is waiting for care unacceptable?: The views
and experiences of Canadian patients |
| Claudia Sanmartin |
Western Canada Waiting List Project (invited panelist) |
2004 Canadian Population Society (CPS) Annual Meetings, Congress
2004, Winnipeg, June 2-5, 2004
| Russell Wilkins |
Using linked birth and infant death data to describe
disparities in birth outcomes across various demographic groupings
in British Columbia from 1981 through 2000 |
| Philippe Finès |
Does the income-mortality gradient vary across urban areas
in Canada? |
| Edward Ng |
Healthy immigrant effect in Canada: a longitudinal perspective
using National Population Health Surveys |
Canadian Public Health Association, St. John’s (NF), June
13-16, 2004
| Edward Ng |
Healthy immigrant effect in Canada: a longitudinal perspective
using National Population Health Surveys |
| Nancy Ross |
Neighbourhood effects on health in Montreal |
| Jean-Marie Berthelot |
Examining impact of risks and interventions in populations:
creating an agenda for methodology development and policy interaction
(invited panelist) |
| Nancy Ross |
Income and income disparities: implications for population
health (invited panelist) |
Canadian Paediatric Society, Montreal, June 16-20, 2004
| Dafna Kohen |
Childhood characteristics associated with receipt
of methylphenidate (Ritalin) |
* English translations of titles for these presentations are provided
for the reader’s convenience.
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