scholarly journals Using the National Population Health Survey to Identify Factors Associated with Patterns of Psychological Distress Over 10 Years

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Heather Orpana
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
National Population Health Survey ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
National Population

scholarly journals After the First Steps: The Evolution of the National Population Health Survey

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Yeo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Health Care Use ◽  
National Population Health Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
National Population ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Statistics Canada

Many changes take place over the lifetime of a longitudinal panel survey. Changing priorities, new supplements, and conflicting demands are factors that may be unforeseen. The evolution of the National Population Health Survey (NPHS) since its first cycle in 1994/95 is discussed in this context. Statistics Canada contacts panel members every two years for twenty years, to estimate the health of Canadians and its determinants, health care use, and other characteristics. The NPHS was designed to provide both longitudinal and cross-sectional estimates, and to allow sample and content supplements. This paper describes the NPHS and the changes in focus needed to move the panel forward to cycle 2 and beyond.

scholarly journals Convergence of body mass index of immigrants to the Canadian-born population: evidence from the National Population Health Survey (1994–2006)

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 611-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maninder Singh Setia ◽  
Amelie Quesnel-Vallee ◽  
Michal Abrahamowicz ◽  
Pierre Tousignant ◽  
John Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
National Population Health Survey ◽  
National Population

Estimating the Prevalence of Dementia in Elderly People: A Comparison of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging and National Population Health Survey Approaches

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (S1) ◽  
pp. 169-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vince Salazar Thomas ◽  
Sultan Darvesh ◽  
Chris MacKnight ◽  
Kenneth Rockwood
Keyword(s):  
Population Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Functional Disability ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Self Report ◽  
National Population Health Survey ◽  
Canadian Study ◽  
National Population ◽  
Dementia Syndrome ◽  
Prevalence Of Dementia

The Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) and the National Population Health Survey (NPHS) collected data on the prevalence of dementia in differing fashions. The CSHA used a two-stage method with objective testing and expert judgment, and the NPHS used self-report and proxy data. The present report compares estimates of prevalence and the methodology for ascertainment in the two surveys. The more detailed approach of the CSHA offers the more valid means of estimating prevalence and providing data on subtypes, and can be used in natural history studies. The NPHS measures, including a self/proxy report of diagnosed dementia and a derived cognitive measure, are not sufficiently valid for useful inferences to be made. However, the NPHS method can be improved through supplementation with data on functional disability, providing age group-specific point estimates closer to the CSHA's estimates of cognitive impairment and dementia from the community sample. Future waves of the NPHS may wish to include objective cognitive function measures as a cost-efficient and more accurate method of estimating the prevalence of the dementia syndrome without attempting to estimate the prevalence of particular causes of that syndrome.

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