Comparing Health And Health Care Use In Canada And The United States

Abstract

Results from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health (2002-2003) reveal that health status is relatively similar in the two countries, but income-related health disparities exist. Americans in the poorest income quintile are more likely to have poor health than their Canadian counterparts; there were no differences between the rich. In general, Canadians were more like insured Americans regarding access to services, and Canadians experienced fewer unmet needs overall. Despite higher U.S. levels of spending on health care, residents in the two countries have similar health status and access to care, although there are higher levels of inequality in the United States.

Comparison of Healthcare Experiences in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey Facilitated by an Academic-Community Partnership

“…However, it is encouraging that non-autistic participants in our sample had rates of unmet healthcare needs similar to those found in large population-based studies. 45 Autistic individuals also had rates of preventive health utilization within the range of what has been noted in other studies of people with disabilities. 9,10,60 We had an over-representation of female participants, as is often, unfortunately, the case in online surveys.…”

Sustained Responders Have Better Quality of Life and Productivity Compared With Treatment Failures Long After Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C

“…Quality-of-life measures were compared with normative population data, adjusting for age and sex. Th e HUI3 norms were obtained from the 3,505 Canadian respondents of the Joint Canada / United States Survey of Health (26) . Th e SF-36 norms were collected from a survey of 9,423 randomly selected Canadians (27) .…”

“…a Canadian norms for the SF-36 were obtained from Hopman et al (27), Canadian norms for the HUI3 were obtained from the Joint Canada / United States Survey of Health(26) , normative data for the SF-6D were obtained from the National Health Measurement Survey(28) .…”

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