Fewer Canadians are in “very good” or “perfect” health now compared to 10 years ago, a Statistics Canada report showed on Monday.
Functional health is a measure of health that summarizes a person’s level of difficulty in eight health aspects: vision, hearing, speech, cognition, dexterity, mobility, emotional health and pain.
The functional health of Canadian adults overall has declined over the past decade, largely due to deteriorating emotional health and the increasing prevalence of pain, the report said.
The percentage of total Canadian adults with “perfect” or “very good” health dropped from 68.6 per cent in 2015 to 56.4 per cent in 2024, it added.
This is notable, because from 1994 to 2015, functional health among those under 65 was constant and for those over 75 years of age it improved.
However, from 2015 to 2024, functional health remained approximately the same for Canadians age 75 and older but decreased for all younger age groups.
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The sharpest decline came for Canadians aged 18-34.
In 2015, 73.4 per cent of people in this age group had very good to perfect functional health, declining to 60.1 per cent in 2024.
Those aged between 35 and 49 saw a similar decline from 73 per cent in 2015 to 60.4 per cent in 2024.
Women had it worse than men, with all age groups over 18 reporting worse functional health for women than men.
The decline in functional health was seen in all provinces.
Nova Scotia (47.7 per cent) and New Brunswick (48.3 per cent) had the lowest functional health while Quebec (65.6 per cent) had the highest among all of Canada’s provinces.
The sharpest decline of all was in emotional health, measured as the percentage of people who are happy and interested in life. This attribute declined from 78.3 per cent in 2015 to 61.2 per cent in 2024.
Young people were hit hardest by this decline in emotional health. While the figures were fairly similar for all age groups in 2015, in 2024, those aged 18 to 34 had worse emotional health than those aged 50 and older, the report said.
Overall, however, men of all age groups over 18 were consistently less likely to be happy and interested in their lives than women.
In 2015, 77.9 per cent of Canadians said they had no pain or discomfort that they were living with.
In 2024, that figure declined to 72 per cent.
Women and older Canadians were more likely to have pain and discomfort, the report found.
Everyone trying to point to Trudeau as the problem when first: correlation≠causation and second: this is a worldwide phenomenon, not just in Canada.
11 years of the Liberal Regime is the obvious cause.
At least they managed to offer us MAID as a conduit for relief
Interesting this correlates with when Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015, and how the Liberals have remained in power since. Under their watch, overall health for all levels of Canadians have deteriorated quite rapidly. That’s should be a cause for concern. I cant help but think it this is related to everyone’s financial struggle in this country. The affordability crisis in every aspect of living; housing, food, wellbeing, inability to pay for things that bring you joy and comfort and just get ahead is what is contributing to less emotional wellbeing, depression and pain. The government isn’t helping Canadians get ahead in any shape or form and they’re is constant struggle, which becomes chronic pain and discomfort. It’s mind boggling that we ha e a government unable or unwilling to ensure a healthy population by addressing the affordability of our basic needs. You don’t need a university degree to see what needs to be done. You need people with empathy and compassion and bold ideas which is severely lacking in this government. It will only get worse if we don’t have people with lived experience in government and keep lining it with executives, CEOs and wealthy investors. No balance of people’s needs is showing the cracks and failure
We’ve become a society that elevates mental disorder and victimhood to a valid status symbol. What did we expect was going to happen? Mental health professionals aren’t even allowed to diagnose anymore, they’re only there to affirm whatever notion someone has about their mental issues. Because they’ve “researched” and self diagnosed. Let’s not forget Ken Dangerfield, he’s a shining example of what progessive brain does to people, dude takes 20 side of every 80/20 issue and thinks it elevates him morally.
Intellectual capacity as well
Although that isnt confined to those 35 and under
Of course young people are self reporting negativity. These are Gen Z. Duh.
hm Trudeau jr. really did destroy this country
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Electing Trudeau literally killed this country and the stats are starting to show it..
Gee… I wonder what changed 10 years ago?….
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