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Health Lifestyles in the United States and Canada: Are We Really So Different?

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  • Patrick M. Krueger
  • Tajudaullah Bhaloo
  • Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau

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Objective. Some research suggests that social, political, and cultural life in the United States and Canada are growing divergent. We use health lifestyle theories to extend prior research and compare the United States and Canada on population health indicators. Methods. The population health indicators include health behaviors, fertility, and cause‐specific mortality for each of the U.S. states (and Washington, DC) and Canadian provinces and territories (N=64). Results. Canada and the United States are significantly different on many health lifestyle variables, but levels of the health lifestyle variables converge at the U.S.‐Canada border, and some U.S. states and Canadian provinces or territories exhibit similar health lifestyle patterns, regardless of whether they share an international border (these are mapped in the article). Conclusions. Although Canada and the United States differ on major population health indicators, some states, provinces, and territories exhibit marked similarities. Our article concludes with a discussion about how our comparative perspective might inform population health policies.

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  • Patrick M. Krueger & Tajudaullah Bhaloo & Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, 2009. "Health Lifestyles in the United States and Canada: Are We Really So Different?," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 90(5), pages 1380-1402, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:socsci:v:90:y:2009:i:5:p:1380-1402
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00660.x
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