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October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Between 2001 and 2003, researchers at the federal National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collaborated with their counterparts at the Health Statistics Division of Statistics Canada to conduct a telephone survey on a broad range of health topics in both countries using the same questionnaire.
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines the extent to which smoking prevalence varies across geographic areas, specifically communities, health regions, and provinces/territories in Canada, independent of individual characteristics. Geography contributed to the total variation in smoking at 8.4 percent.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Association of Academic Health Centers, Washington, developed and disseminated the proceedings and action plans from the 4th Trilateral Conference in Ottawa, Canada, held September 17-24, 2000.
March 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Jeffrey Merrill, Ph.D., then at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York, wrote a comparative study of other countries' health systems that identified components that might be relevant to the redesign of the U.S. health care system.
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Global health challenges are increasingly more prominent as city populations continue to grow, making community health a priority.
September 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
AcademyHealth examined available trend data on immigration to the United States of nurses educated abroad, and assessed the policy implications of this nation's growing reliance on foreign nurses.
November 1, 1996 | Program Result Report
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care documented the implicit criteria used to determine "medical necessity" related to mental health, and the influences of financial incentives and organizational arrangements on medical necessity decisions.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article compares the effect of socioeconomic status on consumption of health care services in Canada and the United States. Canada offers universal health care while the United States has a more complex mix of private and public insurance, and previous research has indicated that socioeconomic status is more likely to effect health care use in the United States than in Canada.
January 1, 2005 | Journal Article
This study investigated the association between average income or deprivation and infant mortality rate across neighborhoods of 4 world cities. Using a maximum likelihood negative binomial regression model that controls for births, we analyzed data ...
January 12, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1998, Radio Bilingue used funds from RWJF and other sources to maintain a health desk and produce health programming and public service messages.