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When we factor in socio-economic variables such as the income, education and work status, the odds ratio is reduced from 2.3 to 1.5, suggesting that some of the disparity in reporting fair or poor health is due to lower socio- economic status.

(Return tabled) Question No. 422 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to nutrition in child and adolescent populations in Canada: (a) does government policy include recognition and acceptance of the principle that Canada’s children and adolescents are entitled to nutritious food (i) regardless of where they live, (ii) regardless of their family income, (iii) particularly when economic forces undermine efforts by parents and caregivers to ensure healthy eating; (b) given that the 1992 World Declaration on Nutrition, to which Canada was a signatory, states that access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual, what specific actions have the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada undertaken for ...[+++]children and adolescents in order to fulfill this commitment; (c) what percentage of children and adolescents in Canada is food insecure, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (d) what percentage of children and adolescents lives below the poverty line, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (e) what percentage of children and adolescents has, as a result of living below the poverty line, (i) poor nutritional status, (ii) poor health outcomes due to their poor nutritional status; (f) what percentage of members of each of the following groups is food insecure, (i) child and adolescent newcomers, (ii) children and adolescents who live in poverty, (iii) children and adolescents who live in priority neighbourhoods, (iv) Aboriginal children and adolescents; (g) what percentage of children and adolescents (i) involuntarily misses meals, (ii) lacks healthy variety in its diet; (h) does the government have information, and, if so, what is that information, concerning (i) how (g)(i) and (g)(ii) impact the caloric a ...

Suggestions for the benchmarks to be used under the Open Method of Coordination include: the socio-economic status of the pupils concerned, whether or not they are from a migrant background; the completion of studies (compulsory education) by pupils, whether or not they are from a migrant background; the proportion of teaching staff from a migrant background; the intercultural skills of the teaching staff; the education system’s capacity to allow social mobility; the promotion of multilingualism in the public education system; and how open education systems are for all children and young people, etc.

Using parents' education as a proxy for socio-economic status, what they found was that during these years in Ontario, where fees were rising rapidly, the chance of an upper socio-economic status student enrolling in medicine, dentistry, or law just about doubled, as did the chance of a lower socio-economic status student, but the chance for the middle socio-economic status student was cut in half (1415) The Chair: Do you want to conclude?

I think Mr. Mazankowski hit the nail right on the head when he said that the health status of people in general depends on their socio-economic status.

Dr. Martin: In my understanding of the figures, it is in fact the Aboriginal population that really shift the status of the rural people to such a low level. In fact, most rural people are comparable to people in the same socio-economic status in urban settings, although often they are in the lower income levels.