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Immigrants generally arrive in Canada with better health than the Canadian-born.
However, as time passes, this “healthy immigrant effect” tends to diminish,
as their health status converges with that of the host population.
Immigrants also had lower rates of both depression and alcohol dependence
than the Canadian-born population.
(Statistics Canada, 2001)
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Canada's population health issues
Physical inactivity and obesity.
The economic burden of physical inactivity was $5.3 billion ($1.6
billion in direct costs and $3. 7 billion in indirect costs) while the
cost associated with obesity was $4.3 billion ($1.6 billion of direct
costs and $2. 7 billion of indirect costs). However, immigrants are less
likely than people born in Canada to be obese. Sources: Peter T.
Katzmarzyk, and Ian Janssen, 2004; Statistics Canada, August, 2006.
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Canada: Overweight and Obese People, 2004. |
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Province |
Overweight |
Obese |
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CANADA |
36.1 |
23.1 |
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PEI |
40.2 |
26.3 |
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British Columbia |
39.8 |
19.2 |
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Saskatchewan |
37.3 |
30.8 |
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Newfoundland and Labrador |
37.1 |
33.9 |
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Ontario |
35.9 |
22.7 |
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Alberta |
35.7 |
25.2 |
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New
Brunswick |
35.3 |
29.2 |
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Nova
Scotia |
35 |
24.7 |
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Quebec |
34.5 |
21.8 |
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Manitoba |
34.3 |
28.2 |
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Source: Statistics Canada, 2004. |
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Canada's major health care system issues
Doctor Shortages. According to Statistics Canada, more than 3.6
million Canadians did not have a regular doctor in 2003. About 14 per
cent of immigrants couldn't find a doctor in 2001.
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Canada: Family doctor*/people ratio, 2008. |
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Family
Doctors |
Population |
Doctors per
1,000 People |
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CANADA |
33,922 |
33,143,610 |
1.0 |
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Ontario |
11,386 |
12,861,940 |
0.9 |
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Manitoba |
1,232 |
1,193,566 |
1.0 |
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Territories |
108 |
104,893 |
1.0 |
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Prince Edward Island |
148 |
139,068 |
1.1 |
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Saskatchewan |
1,122 |
1,006,644 |
1.1 |
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Quebec |
8,223 |
7,730,612 |
1.1 |
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Alberta |
3,680 |
3,497,881 |
1.1 |
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New
Brunswick |
910 |
751,250 |
1.2 |
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British Columbia |
5,196 |
4,413,973 |
1.2 |
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Newfoundland |
684 |
508,099 |
1.3 |
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Nova
Scotia |
1,233 |
935,573 |
1.3 |
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Source: CMA, 2008; Stats Can, 2008; Canadaimmigrants estimates.
*Knowledgeable family
doctors whose expertise is prescribing Tylenol and Advil.
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Canada's
Health Care is not a "socialized" system but an onerous and poorly
administrated health system that works exactly as those systems in many
poor countries; with preferential treatment to the rich and influential...
As expensive as it is, there is no need to privatize it.
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