As part of a wide-ranging project to study the health status of Québec's Anglophones, the present analysis examines the Anglophone population's socioeconomic situation over time, by geographic area, and in comparison with Francophones. The variable used to establish membership in the Anglophone population is the mother tongue. The study analyzes standard socioeconomic indicators, as well as income disparity.

The analysis of census socioeconomic indicators shows that despite a generally positive progression over the period 1991-2006, the relatively favourable picture of the socioeconomic situation of Anglophones for Québec as a whole is tempered when the available data are examined by geographic area and in comparison with Francophones. For example, despite high levels of...

In the early 1990s the indicator disability-adjusted life years (DALY) was developed in response to a need for data used in health decision-making on an international scale. Since then, a number of countries have used this indicator to produce territorial estimates.

This indicator is of interest insofar as it considers both mortality and loss of functional health. It also allows for comparison of estimates produced for various health conditions and to rank their impacts on the health of a population under study. The impacts of disease on mortality are measured using years of life lost (YLL) and loss of functional health is estimated using years lost due to disability (YLD). DALYs are calculated as the sum of YLL and YLD.

The objectives of this...

Au début des années quatre-vingt-dix, l'indicateur années de vie corrigées de l'incapacité (AVCI) a été élaboré afin de répondre au besoin de données pour la prise de décision en santé à l'échelle internationale. Depuis, plusieurs pays ont utilisé cet indicateur pour produire des estimations spécifiques à leur territoire.

Cet indicateur est intéressant dans la mesure où il considère à la fois la mortalité et la perte de santé fonctionnelle. Il permet également de comparer les estimations produites pour différentes maladies et d'ordonner leurs impacts sur l'état de santé de la population étudiée. Les impacts d'une maladie sur la mortalité sont mesurés par les années de vie perdues (AVP) et la perte de santé fonctionnelle est estimée à l'aide des années vécues...

This document falls within the framework of the analysis project on the health of official language minority communities in Quebec led by the INSPQ, in collaboration with the Community Health and Social Services Network (CHSSN) and the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux. This report focuses on the validity of the “language spoken at home” variable present in death records as they currently exist. This information is important since we use it to attribute a language status to the deceased based on this variable, especially for the mortality analysis with relation to linguistic group.

In our work, language is a health determinant. Therefore, it is used as a discriminating factor, which has rarely been the case in Quebec up until now. Some ecological studies have...