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Announcements
Congratulations to our manager, Jean-Marie Berthelot, who recently
became an adjunct professor with the Department of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics at McGill University.
We have had excellent feedback on the Canadian Population Society’s
annual meetings at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Russell Wilkins, vice-president, organized
this year’s meetings. For the agenda and abstracts, see www.canpopsoc.org
Seminars and presentations
Another busy year of seminars and presentations! HAMG analysts
made the following presentations in April, May and June (2003):
Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS), Rimouski, Québec
(slides in French)
| Stéphane Tremblay |
Does health depend on region? |
| François Gendron |
Health of Canadian communities |
| Russell Wilkins |
Trends in health expectancy by income and education in Canada
from 1986 to 1996 |
| Christian Houle |
Economic segregation and mortality in Canadian cities |
15th Annual Meeting of the International Network on Health Expectancy
(REVES), Guadalajara, Mexico
| Edward Ng |
Trends in health expectancy by neighbourhood income
and education in Canada from 1986 to 1996 |
| Sarah Gorber |
Developing Canadian health state preference scores (presented
by Edward Ng) |
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Halifax, Nova Scotia
| Edward Ng |
Provincial differences in health expectancy by
neighbourhood income and education |
| Paul James* |
The effects of socio-economic status on avoidable mortality
in Canada from 1971 to 1996 |
| * former HAMG student associate |
2003 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development,
Tampa, Florida
| Dafna Kohen |
Mechanisms of neighbourhood effects for Canadian
preschoolers |
Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
| Claudia Sanmartin |
Access to health care in Canada |
| Karla Nobrega |
Population Health Impact of Disease, Injury, and Health Determinants
in Canada |
Look for us in September 2003:
Claudia Sanmartin will present “When is waiting for care unacceptable?
The views and experiences of Canadians” at the Fifth International
Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services in Washington
(DC).
Jean-Marie Berthelot, Nancy Ross, and Russell Wilkins will speak
at the First Health Statistics Data Users Conference, to be held
in Ottawa. This conference is a collaboration of Statistics Canada,
Health Canada, the Vital Statistics Council for Canada, and CIHI.
For more information see /conferences/health-sante2003/index-eng.htm
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