Welcome and Opening Remarks

Andrea Willson, Aging and Health Research Centre

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Raymond Currie, Canadian Research Data Centre Network

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Gerald Kidder, University of Western Ontario

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Unequal Health, Health Care Needs and SES over the Life Course: The Role of Health Insurance in a National Health System

Emilie Renahy, McGill University
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, McGill University

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Welfare Regimes and Social Inequalities in Health Dynamics: A Comparative Analysis of Panel Data from Britain, Denmark, Germany and the US

Peggy McDonough, University of Toronto
Diana Worts, University of Toronto
Amanda Sacker, University of Essex

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Poster Introductions I--Health of Newly Arrived Immigrant Youth: Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)

Bosu Seo

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Poster Introductions I--Neighborhood Characteristics and Physical Functioning-related Variables in Mid-life Women Living in Rural and Urban Areas in the Midwestern United States

Kristin Tomey
MaryFran Sowers
Shannon Brines
Erin Schlemmer

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Poster Introductions I--Patterns of Family Physician Utilization across Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Bridget L. Ryan
Moira Stewart
M. Karen Campbell
John Koval
Amardeep Thind

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Poster Introductions I--Productivity Losses of Chronic Diseases Among Canadian Labour Force from 1994 to 2005: Estimate from the Nationally Representative Samples

Farah Farahati, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Poster Introductions I--Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health and the Welfare State: A Research Synthesis

Sarah Brennenstuhl, University of Toronto
Peggy McDonough, University of Toronto
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, McGill University

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Poster Introductions I--The Provision of Child and Youth Mental Health Services in Ontario and British Columbia

Amanda Slaunwhite

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

The ‘Trendiness’ of Sleep: An Empirical Investigation into the Cyclical Nature of Sleep Time

Pierre Brochu, University of Ottawa
Catherine Deri-Armstrong, University of Ottawa
Louis-Philippe Morin, University of Ottawa

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Understanding Requirements and Unmet Needs for Accommodations for Non-Senior Adults with Disabilities through a Social-Cultural Lens

Aron Spector, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Poster Introductions II--Learning Violence Young

Lihui Zhang, University of Regina

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Poster Introductions II--Mentor Self-Efficacy as a Hypothesized Mediator between Environmental Factors and the Quality of Big Brothers Big Sisters Community Match Relationships in Canada

A. J. Ferro
D. J. DeWit
S. Wells
K. N. Speechley

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Poster Introductions II--The Assessment of Motor Development in Preschool Children in New Brunswick

Luana Marotta

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Poster Introductions II--The Children’s Health and Activity Modification Program (C.H.A.M.P.): Exploring the Impact of a 4-week Lifestyle Intervention on Obese Children and Their Families

Erin S. Pearson, University of Western Ontario
Shauna M. Burke, University of Western Ontario
Jennifer D. Irwin, University of Western Ontario

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Poster Introductions II--The Relationship between Children’s School Readiness and Community Social Risk Factors

Carrie Seward

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Breastfeeding Practices of Immigrant Mothers in Canada: The Role of Immigration Status, Length of Residence, and Ethnic Minority

Gebremariam Woldemicael, University of Western Ontario

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Poverty, Neighbourhood Characteristics and Trajectories of Maternal Depression

Mai Thanh Tu, Université de Montréal
Mark Daniel, Université de Montréal
Louise Séguin, Université de Montréal
Yan Kestens, Université de Montréal

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Poster Introductions III--Antipsychotic Utilization in British Columbia from 1997 to 2006

Joseph H. Puyat, University of British Columbia
Wayne Jones, Simon Fraser University
Elliot M. Goldner, Simon Fraser University

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Poster Introductions III--Estimating Efficiency in Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities: An Assessment Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis on Panel Data

Amy T. M. Hsu
Audrey Laporte
Alfia Karimova
Whitney Berta
Peter C. Coyte

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Poster Introductions III--Predicting Vulnerability: Pandemic H1N1/09 and Canada’s First Nations

Nicholas Spence, University of Western Ontario
Jerry White, University of Western Ontario

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Poster Introductions III--The Association between Depression-related Disorders, Chronic Physical Conditions and Leisure-time Physical Activity among Canadians in Late Life: Results from the Canadian Community Health Survey (Cycle 2.1)

Geum Ju Song
Janice A. Husted
Mary Thompson
Paul Stolee

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Poster Introductions III--The Influence of Childhood Poverty on the Self-Management of Heart Disease in Later Life

Sally Lindsay

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Poster Introductions III--The Lifecourse of Esophageal Cancer Patients Traced by Means of the Lifegrid

Ann Novogradec, York University

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM