Statistical report on the health of Canadians 1999

   A new report containing detailed statistics on more than 80 topics
related to the health status of Canadians and the major determinants of
health is available today. The Statistical report on the health of
Canadians draws primarily on results from the National Population Health
Survey, as well as other sources such as the National Longitudinal Survey
on Children and Youth.

   A section on health determinants explores social, economic and physical
environments, health services, personal resources and coping, health
knowledge and lifestyle behaviours. A section on health status examines
individual well-being, general health and function, injuries, conditions
and diseases, and death.

   Statistical report on the health of Canadians, 1999 (82-570-XIE) is now
available free on Statistics Canada's Web site (www.statcan.ca). The menu
path is Products and services, then Downloadable publications (free)
followed by Health.

   For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods and data
quality for this release, contact Larry Swain (613-951-8569;
[log in to unmask]), Health Statistics Division. Print copies of this
report are available by phoning 613-954-5995.


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   Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish
        in helpless misery,
   That country must be ill-policed and wretchedly governed:
   A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

   -- Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1770
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
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