The December 2011 print edition of Health Reports,
released December 21, 2011, contains six articles, all of which have appeared
previously in the free online edition:
- The study "Gender differences in functional limitations among
Canadians with arthritis: The role of disease duration and comorbidity" used
the arthritis component of the 2009 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in
Canada to examine gender differences in functional limitations, specifically,
the role of disease duration and comorbidity.
- With data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to
Canada, "Official language proficiency and self-reported health among
immigrants to Canada" examines the relationship between self-reported official
language proficiency and transitions to poor self-reported health during the
first four years in the country.
- "The healthy immigrant effect and mortality rates" presents
analysis using the 1991 to 2001 Canadian census mortality follow-up study to
explore associations between mortality and birthplace and period of
immigration.
- "Remaining life expectancy at age 25 and probability of
survival to age 75, by socio-economic status and Aboriginal ancestry"
calculates remaining life expectancy at age 25 and the probability of survival
to age 75 during the 1991-to-2006 period by income adequacy, education and
residence in shelters, rooming houses and hotels, and for Registered Indians,
non-Status Indians and Métis.
- The objective of the article "The impact of considering
birthplace in analyses of immigrant health" is to illustrate how combining data
from several cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey increases
analytical power and yields a clearer picture of immigrant health by
identifying more precise subgroups. Examples are presented to demonstrate how
indicators of health status vary by birthplace and period of immigration.
- The case study "Strategies for handling normality assumptions
in multi-level modeling: A case study estimating trajectories of Health
Utilities Index Mark 3 scores" focuses on the performance of growth-curve
models using various types of transformations of HUI3 as an outcome variable.
It was conducted to provide a pragmatic approach to handling the normality of
error assumption.
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