Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Aboriginal Health

Tags:

• aboriginal
• chronic conditions
• drinking
• exercise
• health surveys
• morbidity
• obesity
• overweight
• risk factors
• smoking

Date:

2009

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2009004/article/10934-eng.pdf

Annotation:

In Canada, the prevalence of behavioural risk factors and chronic conditions differs for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations, but little research has examined changes over time. This study compares several major risk factors and chronic conditions in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations not living on reserves in the North (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut) and in southern Canada at two time points.  The data are from cycle 1.1 (2000/2001) and cycle 3.1 (2005/2006) of the Canadian Community Health Survey: 115,990 respondents aged 20 or older, and 118,716 respondents, respectively. Overall, 3.8% of respondents reported Aboriginal cultural or racial background. Crude prevalence estimates, adjusted odds ratios, and bootstrap-derived confidence intervals were calculated for seven risk factors and nine chronic conditions at each time point.