McCreary Centre Society has launched the report Balance and Connection in Fraser North: The health and well-being of our youth. This report profiles the health of students in grades 7–12 in the Fraser North region who completed the 2018 BC Adolescent Health Survey. You can access the accompanying PowerPoint presentation and MORE
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released their sixth annual report that provides a snapshot of the median child care fees parents pay in 37 cities across Canada for full-time licensed child care of infants, toddlers and preschool-age children. Though child care fees remain unaffordable across the country, policy initiatives clearly make MORE
PROOF conducted research on household food insecurity in Canada between 2017-2018. Drawing on data for 103,500 households from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Community Health Survey conducted in 2017 and 2018, they found that 12.7% of households experienced some level of food insecurity in the previous 12 months. 17.3% of children under 18 MORE
Early Development Instrument (EDI) data are a long-term provincial indicator of children’s early developmental health and well-being in BC. HELP completed their seventh wave of EDI data collection in 2019, resulting in the publication of new provincial-level data. The resulting report, the BC EDI Wave 7 Provincial Report, summarizes trends and MORE
Earlier this month, McCreary Centre Society released their Ta Saantii Deu/Neso: A Profile of Métis Youth Health in BC report in partnership with Métis Nation BC. Using data from the 2018 BC Adolescent Health Survey, the report looks at the current health picture of Métis youth, their changing needs, and at disparities MORE
A new report entitled Fractures in the Bridge: Unconventional (Fracked) Natural Gas, Climate Change and Human Health, published by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), explores research into health issues affecting populations living near unconventional oil and gas operations. Currently most of Canada’s unconventional gas is produced in northeastern MORE
A recent study by the University of Victoria and BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres was prompted by the recent closure, or threat of closure of several urban Indigenous early learning and childcare programs in BC. The purpose of this exploratory study was to: (1) generate a greater understanding of how MORE
Children who migrate are more likely to live in poverty – across Canada and in the world’s richest nations. A recent study used a population-based cohort of BC children to examine whether income differently predicted the kindergarten to Grade 7 (K-7) literacy and numeracy trajectories of migrant children (economic, family, and refugee MORE
Every year, the Chief Public Health Officer writes a report on the state of public health in Canada. These reports raise the profile of public health issues and stimulate dialogue. They can also lead to action in improving and protecting the health of Canadians. This year’s report first provides a summary of MORE
The Vanier Institute recently released A Snapshot of Families and Food in Canada, which explores the evolving relationships between families and food in Canada, including research and statistics about family meals, eating patterns, nutrition, food security and more. Some of the highlights from the report include: More than 6 in 10 MORE
A recent article by Dr. Kim Schmidt and Dr. Michael Kobor explains that the environments and experiences that we encounter early in life, even before we are born, can have long lasting effects that influence our physical and mental health years later, even if our life’s conditions and circumstances have long MORE
The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) recently released a report that provides a provincial overview of data from the Early Development Instrument (EDI) collected during Wave 7 (2016-2019). The data found that overall, EDI vulnerability on one or more scales in BC has increased to 33.4% – up from 32.2% just three MORE
This BC Dental Survey of Aboriginal Kindergarten Children report presents survey findings related to the early childhood dental health of Aboriginal children in British Columbia using data from the 2015/2016 B.C. kindergarten dental survey. Since 2009/2010, the oral health of Aboriginal kindergarten children in B.C. has improved at the provincial MORE
Last week, the BC Coroners Service Death Review Panel Report Examining Deaths Among Infants was released. Each year, approximately 23 infants under the age of one year die unexpectedly during sleep. This death review panel identified three key areas to reduce the number of these sleep-related sudden infant deaths: the MORE
Last week, November 11-17, was Living Wage Week. The Living Wage for Families Campaign celebrated with a series of blog posts that dove deeper into their living wage calculations and what they reveal about working poverty in BC. The first blog post invited readers to learn how the provincial government’s child care MORE