TABLE 4—

Canadian Civil Servants’ Assessments of How Ideas About Determinants of Health Have Been Used: Percentage Responding “Mildly Agree” or “Strongly Agree” vs “Strongly Disagree,” “Mildly Disagree,” or “Neutral/Undecided”

		Level of Government		Sector
	Overall	Provincial	Federal	Finance	Labor	Social Services	Health	F-test P
Knowledge pushed us to consider the value of health care spending practices	69	70	67	69	80*	72	53	.12
Knowledge influenced development of policies in my sector	65	62	74	46	63	81*	59	.12
Always trying to improve the health of populations, just don’t use that language	65	62	73	42*	51*	81	72	.02
Focus used to justify inappropriate health sector funding cuts	15	12	23	8*	0***	21	28	.01

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.