The family, community, and health in the context of economic change

To achieve this aim, investigators and students from University of Western Ontario’s Aging and Health Research Centre and Population Studies Centre conducted a number of studies that examined the relation between • family structure and health of adults and children, • income and health, • community characteristics and health, and • socio-economic status, timing of births, and values of children Us [...] The presentation of the results focuses on the relation between the health of adults, adolescents, and children, and the following: o Family structure, o Socio-economic status, and o Community characteristics Fertility and how it is affected by the socio-economic status of parents and by the values related to children are also highlighted. [...] But first, the data and statistical techniques used in the various studies are briefly described in the next section B. Data, Methods, and Variables As can be seen in Table 1, the studies made use of various sets of data gathered by Statistics Canada, namely, the National Population Health Survey, the Canadian Community Health Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, the. [...] The contribution of the studies in this project lies in the extension of the research to single fathers to determine Table 2: Mean Differencs by Gender and Family Structure whether the mental health consequences of lone parenthood are Mothers Fathers Variable TPF SPF TPF SPF similar to those of single mothers Psychological Distress 3.30 5.03 2.73 3.43 (Avison and Davies, #2 in the Household Income [...] The values of children that are mentioned by the largest proportion of interviewees in response to the questions of why do people usually decide to have children and what are the advantages of having children are expansion of the self, affiliating/securing social capital, and stimulation, novelty and fun.