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December 2011 online edition

The December 2011 online issue of Health Reports contains two articles.

The article "Gender differences in functional limitations among Canadians with arthritis: The role of disease duration and comorbidity," analyses data from the arthritis component of the 2009 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada. The study addresses a number of questions: Are there overall differences in functional limitations between men and women? Are there gender differences in the influence of disease duration and of chronic comorbidity on functional limitations? And do the associations between health-related behaviours, socio-demographic and socio-economic factors and functional limitations differ between men and women?

For more information on this article, contact Walter Omariba (613-951-6528; walter.omariba@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.

The article "Strategies for handling normality assumptions in multi-level modeling: A case study estimating trajectories of Health Utilities Index Mark 3 scores," based on longitudinal data from the first six cycles of the National Population Health Survey to estimate lifetime health status dynamics. Health status trajectories measured by the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) modeled as a function of age alone and also of age and socio-economic covariates revealed non-normal residuals and variance estimation problems. The study investigated the possibility of transforming the HUI3 distribution to obtain residuals that approximate a normal distribution.

For more information on this article, contact by Julie Bernier (613-951-4556; julie.bernier@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.

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For information about Health Reports, contact Janice Felman (613-951-6446; janice.felman@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.