Health over the life course covers two types of research:

1.  Life course analyses of factors affecting health

Studies that follow trajectories, exploring the influence of earlier behaviour, and of social,  community, or policy context on subsequent health issues in the lives of individuals

2. Analyses of health issues at given developmental stages

Studies that focus on children's developmental issues, or health questions specific to adolescents, middle aged, old and oldest old


The conference is interested in variations in health over the life course based on:

  • spatial, geographic and regional questions,
  • socio-economic status including employment, occupation and income,
  • gender, marital status and family characteristics, and
  • ethnic/cultural origins, immigration status and cohort.

The Conference on 15-16 October covers several of these topics.

A pre-conference on data in the afternoon of 14 October will focus on:

  •  Use of Provincial Administrative and Other Health Data, with presentations from Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario.
  • Getting to Know Health Data from Statistics Canada.

These two sessions will be followed by demonstrations and consultations on access to data.

Registration is open with special rates for students.
Registration is free for the half-day pre-conference.

Conference papers and presentations are available at Scholarship@Western.

The Final Report describes the Conference and its evaluation by the organizers and participants.

See the October 22, 2009  Western News featuring Student Depression rises in December, based on a paper presented at the Conference.