Angina and Socio-economic Status in Ontario

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High-cost health care users in Ontario, Canada: demographic, socio-economic, and health status characteristics

BACKGROUND Health care spending is overwhelmingly concentrated within a very small proportion of the population, referred to as the high-cost users (HCU). To date, research on HCU has been limited in scope, focusing mostly on those characteristics available through administrative databases, which have been largely clinical in nature, or have relied on ecological measures of socio-demographics. ...

Angina and socio-economic status in Ontario: how do characteristics of the county you live in influence your chance of developing heart disease?

OBJECTIVE To assist in the development of community heart health programming and policy development, the Central West Health Planning Information Network (CWHPIN) was asked by its partners to collaborate in obtaining information that might clarify the relationships between socio-economic status (SES) and heart disease among residents of Ontario, Canada. The purpose of this component of the proj...

Socio-economic status and subjective well-being

Increasing socio-economic status is associated with increasing levels of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is in turn associated with physical and mental health. In this study, socio-economic gradients in subjective well-being are investigated in a large cross-section of the British population. Higher socioeconomic groups are more satisfied with life and have fewer psychosomatic symp...

Mortality, lifestyle and socio-economic status.

This paper uses the British Health and Lifestyle Survey (1984-1985) data and the longitudinal follow-up of May 2003 to investigate the determinants of premature mortality in Great Britain and the contribution of lifestyle choices to socio-economic inequality in mortality. A behavioural model, which relates premature mortality to a set of observable and unobservable factors, is considered. A max...