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12 mars 2010
Global health risks - Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks
This report is a comprehensive assessment of leading risks to global health. It provides detailed global and regional estimates of premature mortality, disability and loss of health attributable to 24 global risk factors. These are mixture of environmental, behavioural and physiological factors, such as air pollution, tobacco use and poor nutrition. It highlights the fact that global life expectancy could be increased by nearly five years by addressing five factors affecting health – childhood underweight, unsafe sex, alcohol use, lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene, and high blood pressure. The report also draws attention to the combined effect of multiple risk factors. Many deaths and diseases are caused by more than one risk factor and may be prevented by reducing any of the risk factors responsible for them.
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26 fév 2010
Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
This paper draws on recently emerging intersectionality research in the Canadian women's health context in order to explore the promises and practical challenges of applying an intersectionality paradigm. Authors first present a brief overview of why the need for an intersectionality approach has emerged within the context of women's health research and introduce current thinking about how intersectionality can inform and transform health research more broadly. They then highlight novel Canadian research that is grappling with the challenges in addressing issues of difference and diversity.
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26 fév 2010
Deaths, 2007
This Statistics Canada publication presents statistical tables showing the numbers and rates of death in Canada, the ten provinces and the three territories. Life expectancy at birth in Canada reached 80.7 years for the three-year period between 2005 and 2007, up from the average of 80.5 between 2004 and 2006, and 78.4 a decade earlier between 1995 and 1997. Life expectancy among seniors at the age of 65 has also been on an upward trend for several years. Also, the number of deaths registered in Canada in 2007 recorded its largest increase since 1993, continuing a long-term upward trend resulting from a growing and aging population.
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26 fév 2010
The European health report 2009. Health and health systems
This report presents essential public health information to support countries in choosing sound investments in health. It should encourage the successful implementation of effective health system reforms and policies, and help countries improve their health systems? performance to provide efficient, patient-centred, high-quality health care.
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26 fév 2010
Overview of Economic Conditions and the Government's General Approach to Managing the Economy Combating poverty and social exclusion: A statistical portrait of the European Union 2010
Building a more inclusive Europe is considered vital to achieve the EU's goals of sustained economic growth, more and better jobs, and greater social cohesion. It is hoped that such solidarity will be further promoted through the designation of 2010 as the European year for combating poverty and social exclusion. This document presents a broad range of statistical concepts and indicators from social statistics and explores poverty and social exclusion across the 27 Member States.
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