Access to specialized health care services among older Canadians
Health Rep. 2024 Mar 20;35(3):18-32. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400300002-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Canada is experiencing rapid population aging, which has a wide range of implications, including an increased need for health care services. However, very few studies have examined use of specialized health care services (e.g., visits to medical specialists, non-emergency tests, and surgeries) among older Canadians.DATA AND METHODS: Data from the Canadian Health Survey on Seniors - 2019/2020 were used to examine specialized health care service use among older Canadians. Latent class analysis was calibrated using a nationally rep...
Source: Health Reports - March 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Md Kamrul Islam Heather Gilmour Source Type: research
Exploring the use of experimental small area estimates to examine the relationship between individual-level and area-level community belonging and self-rated health
This study assessed novel area-level community belonging measures derived using small area estimation and examined associations with individual-level measures of community belonging and self-rated health.DATA AND METHODS: SAEs of community belonging within census tracts produced from the 2016-2019 cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) were merged with respondent data from the 2020 CCHS. Multinomial logistic regression models were run between area-level SAEs, individual-level sense of community belonging, and self-rated health on the study sample of people aged 18 years and older.RESULTS: Area-level communit...
Source: Health Reports - March 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sarah M Mah Mark Brown Rachel C Colley Laura C Rosella Grant Schellenberg Claudia Sanmartin Source Type: research
Access to specialized health care services among older Canadians
Health Rep. 2024 Mar 20;35(3):18-32. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400300002-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Canada is experiencing rapid population aging, which has a wide range of implications, including an increased need for health care services. However, very few studies have examined use of specialized health care services (e.g., visits to medical specialists, non-emergency tests, and surgeries) among older Canadians.DATA AND METHODS: Data from the Canadian Health Survey on Seniors - 2019/2020 were used to examine specialized health care service use among older Canadians. Latent class analysis was calibrated using a nationally rep...
Source: Health Reports - March 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Md Kamrul Islam Heather Gilmour Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
