TABLE 2—

Canadian Civil Servants’ Awareness of Ideas and Documents About Determinants of Health: Percentage Responding “Quite Familiar” or “Very Familiar” vs “Not At All Familiar,” “Not Very Familiar,” or “Moderately Familiar”

		Level of Government		Sector
	Overall	Provincial	Federal	Finance	Labor	Social Services	Health	F-test P
Ideas about determinants of health	58	54	70	23***	32***	62***	94	.00
Research related to impact of determinants of health (as categorized by Health Canada) on the health of populations
Healthy child development	71	70	73	42***	63*	80	81	.03
Employment/working conditions	67	67	65	17***	77	70	72	.00
Income and social status	66	61*	81	25***		80	75	.00
Education	65	63	73	33***	66	63	78	.05
Health services	59	59	58	50*	43***	57**	81	.01
Physical environment	58	53*	73	25**	63	57	66	.09
Personal health practices and coping skills	57	57	58	25***	57	50**	75	.02
Social support networks	51	47	65	8***	34***	67	72	.00
Biology and genetic endowment	35	33	42	25	37	30	41	.72
Documents that have contributed to ideas about determinants of health in Canada
Lalonde Report1	32	23***	62	0***	6***	40**	66	.00
Strategies for Population Health13	31	26*	46	0***	8***	40*	59	.00
Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?14	26	23	35	0***	6***	34	50	.00
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion15	18	15	27	0***	0***	17***	47	.00
Nurturing Health16	18	16	27	0***	3***	17***	44	.00

Note. Pairwise t tests were conducted to assess differences by level of government (with federal as the reference category) and by sector (with health sector as the reference category). F tests of the independence of proportions were conducted to identify differences among sectors.

Source. McMaster University Survey of Canadian Civil Servants, 2000.

*P ≤ .10;

** P ≤ .05;

*** P ≤ .01.