Functional health drops for Canadians, especially those under 35: StatCan
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Functional health summarizes a person’s level of difficulty in eight health aspects - vision, hearing, speech, cognition, dexterity, mobility, emotional health and pain.
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.
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.
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