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Canada Health Measures Survey 2007-2009

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Canadian Health Measures Survey Cycle 1
Provider 
Statistics Canada (StatCan)
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Geography 
Canada (CAN)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
03/2007 - 02/2009
Series or system 
Canada Health Measures Survey
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Exam
  • Household
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

The Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) is a multi-wave survey of Canadians' health status, consisting of both household questionnaire and clinical examination components. The household questionnaires collect information on nutrition, tobacco, and alcohol use, medical history, health status, physical activity, and demographic and socioeconomic variables. Clinical exams in regional mobile examination centers collected physical measurements including blood pressure, height, weight, physical fitness, oral health, and samples of blood, urine, and DNA.

In the first cycle, which took place in 2007-2009, a sample of 6,604 participants aged 6-79 were interviewed with the household questionnaire, and clinical exams were conducted with 5,604 participants. Data were collected in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. 

Keywords 
Alcohol use, Anthropometry, Assets, Asthma, Back pain, Birth place, Birth weight, Blood glucose, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breast cancer, Breastfeeding, COPD, Cancers, Chemotherapy, Chlamydia, Cholesterol, Chronic kidney diseases, Cirrhosis of the liver, Colon and rectum cancers, Condoms, Corrective lenses, Cough, Dental care, Dental caries, Diabetes, Dialysis, Diet, Dietary sodium, Drug consumption, Eating disorders, Education, Employment, Environmental hazards, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fruits and vegetables, Gall bladder and bile duct disease, Gonococcal infections, HIV and AIDS, Health care use, Health status, Hearing loss, Heart disease, Height, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis vaccines, Hours worked, Household heat, Housing, Housing conditions, Hypertension, Illicit drug use, Income, Infant care, International migration, Ischemic heart disease, Jaundice, Languages, Lead exposure, Limited mobility, Live births, Living conditions, Marital status, Maternal age, Medicines, Melanoma, Mental and behavioral disorders, Micronutrient supplements, Military service, Mobility aids, Multiple births, Musculoskeletal diseases, Neck pain, Occupations, Oral hygiene, Osteoarthritis, Pain, Pesticides, Physical activity, Physical examinations, Pregnancy, Prostate cancer, Pulse, Race, Rheumatoid arthritis, STDs, School enrollment, Secondhand smoke, Sense organ diseases, Sexual behavior, Skin cancers, Sleep, Stroke, Sun exposure, Tobacco smoking, Traditional medicine, Unemployment, Urine tests, Vision loss, Weight, Weight change
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