The Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health in Canada 2011 – Youth and Young Adults — Life in transition

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Executive Summary
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Why a report on the state of public health in Canada?
  • The goals of the report
  • What is public health?
  • Who is this report about?
  • What does the report cover?
• Chapter 2: Setting the Stage for Healthy Life Transitions – A Public Health History
  • Public health and the lifecourse approach
  • Lifecourse transitions of youth and young adults
  • Canada's history of promoting healthy life transitions
  • Moving forward
  • Chapter 2 Summary
• Chapter 3: The Health and Well-being of Canadian Youth and Young Adults
  • Social demographics of the youth and young adult population
    • Residence
    • Education, employment and income
  • The current health of Canada's youth and young adults
    • Mental health and mental illness
    • Physical health
    • Health risk behaviours
  • Chapter 3 Summary
• Chapter 4: Creating Healthy Transitions
  • The approach
  • Creating supportive environments for transition
  • Developing resilience
  • Addressing risky behaviours
  • Enhancing positive mental health and protective factors
  • Approaches to preventing suicide
  • Preventing unintentional injury
  • Bullying and aggression
  • Sexual and reproductive health issues
  • Healthy weights and healthy living
  • Substance use and abuse
  • Chapter 4 Summary
• Chapter 5: Moving Forward – Priority Areas for Action
  • Priority areas for action
    • Improving and making better use of population and program evidence
    • Increasing education and awareness
    • Building and maintaining supportive and caring environments
    • Approaching problems from all sides with co-ordinated, multi-pronged, inter-sectoral action
  • Making progress
• Appendix A: List of Acronyms
• Appendix B: Indicators of Our Health and Factors Influencing Our Health
• Appendix C: Definitions and Data Sources for Indicators
• References

Figures

• Figure 2.1 Age-specific fertility rate by select age groups, Canada, 1930 to 2008
• Figure 3.1 Population distribution by age group, Canada, 2006
• Figure 3.2 High school dropout rate, academic years 1990/1991 to 2009/2010
• Figure 3.3 Completion of post-secondary education by select age groups, select OECD countries, 2008
• Figure 3.4 Occupation by sex, youth and young adults, Canada, 2006
• Figure 3.5 Unemployment rate by highest level of completed education, youth and young adults, Canada, 1990 to 2009
• Figure 3.6 Youth and young adults living in low-income households, after tax, Canada, 1976 to 2008
• Figure 3.7 Very good or excellent self-perceived mental health, by origin, youth and young adults, Canada, 2009
• Figure 3.8 Mood disorder by age group and sex, youth and young adults, Canada, 2009
• Figure 3.9 Anxiety disorder by age group and sex, youth and young adults, Canada, 2009
• Figure 3.10 Indirect forms of bullying in victim students by grade and sex, Canada, 2006
• Figure 3.11 Direct forms of bullying in victim students by grade and sex, Canada, 2006
• Figure 3.12 Suicide rate per 100,000 population, by age group and sex, Canada, 2007
• Figure 3.13 Major causes of death by sex, youth and young adults aged 12 to 29 years, Canada, 2007
• Figure 3.14 Tuberculosis incidence rate by origin, youth and young adults aged 15 to 29 years, Canada, 2001 to 2009
• Figure 3.15 Measured BMI category by age group and sex, Canada, 2007-2009
• Figure 3.16 Percentage of measured overweight and obesity by income and sex, young adults, Canada excluding territories, 2004
• Figure 3.17 Incidence of select cancers by sex, youth and young adults aged 15 to 29 years, Canada, 2007
• Figure 3.18 Hospitalizations due to injuries, youth and young adults aged 12 to 29 years, Canada excluding Quebec, 2005/2006
• Figure 3.19 Rates of chlamydia by select age group and sex, Canada, 2009
• Figure 3.20 Rates of gonorrhea by select age group and sex, Canada, 2009
• Figure 3.21 Rates of infectious syphilis by select age group and sex, Canada, 2009
• Figure 3.22 Percentage of population by age and sex who have had sexual intercourse, youth and young adults aged 15 to 29 years, Canada, 1996-97 and 2009
• Figure 3.23 Rates of pregnancy and live birth, female youth, Canada, 1975 to 2005
• Figure 3.24 Percentage of youth and young adult smokers by sex, Canada excluding territories, 1999 and 2009
• Figure 3.25 Alcohol consumption by smoking status, students Grades 7 to 9 and Grades 10 to 12, Canada excluding territories, 2009
• Figure 3.26 Illicit drug use by sex, youth and young adults, Canada excluding territories, 2009

Tables

• Table 3.1 Demographics of Canada's youth and young adult population
• Table 3.2 Social and economic status of Canada's youth and young adults
• Table 3.3 Mental health of Canada's youth and young adults
• Table 3.4 Mental illness of Canada's youth and young adults
• Table 3.5 Perceived health and mortality of Canada's youth and young adults
• Table 3.6 Physical health of Canada's youth and young adults
• Table 3.7 Health behaviours of Canada's youth and young adults
• Table B.1 Who we are
• Table B.2 Our health status
• Table B.3 Factors influencing our health
• Table C.1 Body mass index for youth aged 12 to 17 years
• Table C.2 Low income cut offs after tax, Canada, 2009

Textboxes

• The role of Canada's Chief Public Health Officer
• The role of the Public Health Agency of Canada
• Unite and Ignite Conference
• Canada's role in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Creating strong families: the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program and Strengthening Families for the Future
• Integrated approaches to addressing homelessness
• Addressing mental health problems and addictions among the homeless: Ottawa's Wabano Centre
• Longitudinal research on resilience: The Kauai Longitudinal Study
• Researching resilience – Canada's Resilience Research Centre
• Researching protective factors and resilience in adolescent girls
• Mental Health First Aid Canada: The Jack Project example
• Evergreen: a national framework for child and youth mental health
• Suicide prevention with community programs
• Social networks preventing LGBTQ suicide – It Gets Better Project
• Raising awareness about drinking and driving
• Learning about risks: the SMARTRISK example
• The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
• Preventing dating violence: Youth Relationships Project
• Building healthy relationships: The Fourth R
• The Maternal Child Health Program
• School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP)
• Addressing FASD – Manitoba's Stop FAS Initiative
• Unite and Ignite Youth Engagement Conference