Using the determinants of health framework, the paper describes the current health status for adolescents and identifies areas where certain youth have greater needs for information and support. The paper considers the importance of gender, ethnic and cultural differences in adolescent development and behaviours. This report is part of Health Canada's contribution to the Metropolis project and presents a scan of Canadian research on topics related to immigration health. Due to limited time and resources, primarily large, broad studies of national policy interest published from 1990 to the present were included in the scan. The scan identified a number of main themes and remaining gaps in immigration health research.
Literacy is a major variable influencing health in a variety of ways.
The paper touches upon some of the mechanisms by which literacy affects health, and suggests some of the ways in which the health field can respond. It draws on results from the National Population Health Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey on Children and Youth and numerous other sources, to provide a comprehensive picture of the state of the nation's health. The Afflictions of Inequality by Richard Wilkinson, 1996. Richard Wilkinson is an expert on social structure and the psychosocial determinants of population health and welfare. He is a research fellow in social epidemiology at the University of Sussex and Associate Director of the International Centre for Health and Society at University College London where he is a visiting professor.