Diseases and physical health conditions
Key indicators
Selected geographical area: Canada
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1,730 per 100,000 people
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All (6) ((6 results))
- 1. Underweight Canadians ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20020036394Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article explores the demographic, social and economic characteristics of the underweight population.
Release date: 2002-12-17 - 2. Modeling the burden of cancer in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-005-X20020016479Geography: CanadaDescription:
The Population Health Model (POHEM) is a policy analysis tool that helps answer "what-if" questions about the health and economic burden of specific diseases and the cost-effectiveness of administering new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. This simulation model is particularly pertinent in an era of fiscal restraint, when new therapies are generally expensive and difficult policy decisions are being made. More important, it provides a base for a broader framework to inform policy decisions using comprehensive disease data and risk factors. Our "base case" models comprehensively estimate the lifetime costs of treating breast, lung and colorectal cancer in Canada. Our cancer models have shown the large financial burden of diagnostic work-up and initial therapy, as well as the high costs of hospitalizing those dying of cancer. Our core cancer models (lung, breast and colorectal cancer) have been used to evaluate the impact of new practice patterns. We have used these models to evaluate new chemotherapy regimens as therapeutic options for advanced lung cancer; the health and financial impact of reducing the hospital length of stay for initial breast cancer surgery; and the potential impact of population-based screening for colorectal cancer. To date, the most interesting intervention we have studied has been the use of tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer among high risk women.
Release date: 2002-10-08 - 3. Moderate alcohol consumption and heart disease ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20020016342Geography: CanadaDescription:
Women who reported moderate drinking, that is, two to nine drinks in the past week, had significantly lower odds of receiving a new diagnosis of or dying from heart disease between 1994-95 and 1998-99, compared with women who reported lifetime abstinence from alcohol. No such protective association emerged for men over this period.
Release date: 2002-10-03 - 4. Hip and knee replacement ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20020016344Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines the substantial increase in the numbers and rates of hip and knee replacements among seniors between 1981-82 and 1998-99, while also looking at the decline in the length of stay for both procedures. This increase in joint replacement surgery was evident for both sexes and in all senior age groups, although rates were consistently higher for women.
Release date: 2002-10-03 - 5. Shift work and health ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20010046315Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article describes the characteristics of shift workers and compares stress factors and health behaviours of shift and regular daytime workers. Based on an analysis of people followed over four years, associations between shift work and the incidence of chronic conditions and changes in psychological distress levels are explored.
Release date: 2002-07-25 - 6. Revascularization and heart attack outcomes ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20010026062Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
A year after their heart attack, three-quarters of the 12,271 patients admitted to hospital in 1995/96 in Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia had not been revascularized. Rates of revascularization were relatively low for women, the very elderly, and people with other health problems.
Release date: 2002-01-24
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- 1. Underweight Canadians ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-008-X20020036394Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article explores the demographic, social and economic characteristics of the underweight population.
Release date: 2002-12-17 - 2. Modeling the burden of cancer in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-005-X20020016479Geography: CanadaDescription:
The Population Health Model (POHEM) is a policy analysis tool that helps answer "what-if" questions about the health and economic burden of specific diseases and the cost-effectiveness of administering new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. This simulation model is particularly pertinent in an era of fiscal restraint, when new therapies are generally expensive and difficult policy decisions are being made. More important, it provides a base for a broader framework to inform policy decisions using comprehensive disease data and risk factors. Our "base case" models comprehensively estimate the lifetime costs of treating breast, lung and colorectal cancer in Canada. Our cancer models have shown the large financial burden of diagnostic work-up and initial therapy, as well as the high costs of hospitalizing those dying of cancer. Our core cancer models (lung, breast and colorectal cancer) have been used to evaluate the impact of new practice patterns. We have used these models to evaluate new chemotherapy regimens as therapeutic options for advanced lung cancer; the health and financial impact of reducing the hospital length of stay for initial breast cancer surgery; and the potential impact of population-based screening for colorectal cancer. To date, the most interesting intervention we have studied has been the use of tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer among high risk women.
Release date: 2002-10-08 - 3. Moderate alcohol consumption and heart disease ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20020016342Geography: CanadaDescription:
Women who reported moderate drinking, that is, two to nine drinks in the past week, had significantly lower odds of receiving a new diagnosis of or dying from heart disease between 1994-95 and 1998-99, compared with women who reported lifetime abstinence from alcohol. No such protective association emerged for men over this period.
Release date: 2002-10-03 - 4. Hip and knee replacement ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20020016344Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article examines the substantial increase in the numbers and rates of hip and knee replacements among seniors between 1981-82 and 1998-99, while also looking at the decline in the length of stay for both procedures. This increase in joint replacement surgery was evident for both sexes and in all senior age groups, although rates were consistently higher for women.
Release date: 2002-10-03 - 5. Shift work and health ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20010046315Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article describes the characteristics of shift workers and compares stress factors and health behaviours of shift and regular daytime workers. Based on an analysis of people followed over four years, associations between shift work and the incidence of chronic conditions and changes in psychological distress levels are explored.
Release date: 2002-07-25 - 6. Revascularization and heart attack outcomes ArchivedArticles and reports: 82-003-X20010026062Geography: Province or territoryDescription:
A year after their heart attack, three-quarters of the 12,271 patients admitted to hospital in 1995/96 in Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia had not been revascularized. Rates of revascularization were relatively low for women, the very elderly, and people with other health problems.
Release date: 2002-01-24
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