Functional health of Canadian adults, 2015 to 2024 Released: 2026-03-16
Percentage of Canadian adults with very good to perfect functional health
56.4%
CCHS 2024
Source(s): Table 13-10-0966-01.
The functional health of Canadian adults has declined over the past decade, largely due to deteriorating emotional health and the increasing prevalence of pain. Functional health, measured using the Health Utilities Index Mark 3, is an important measure of health-related quality of life (included in Canada’s Quality of Life Framework) that summarizes an individual’s level of difficulty in eight attributes: vision, hearing, speech, cognition, dexterity, mobility, emotional health and pain. The attributes can then be combined into a multi-attribute score summarizing the individual’s overall functional health status. A score of 0.89 to 1.00 indicates very good to perfect functional health, while scores below 0.89 indicate moderate to poor functional health.
Functional health is declining, especially among young adults
The percentage of Canadian adults with very good to perfect functional health declined from 68.6% in 2015 to 56.4% in 2024.
This decrease is notable given that from 1994 to 2015, mean functional health remained constant for Canadian adults under age 65, and improved for those aged 65 and older. Conversely, from 2015 to 2024, functional health remained approximately the same for Canadians age 75 and older, but decreased for all younger age groups. In all years, Canadians aged 75 and older had lower functional health than younger age groups, while among all adults aged 18 and older, females had worse functional health than males.
We greedy filthy humans have made the world much too polluted for healthy living anymore, notably with climate pollution driving larger and wilder wildfires and the thugs in power keep illegally bombing others. War is dreadfully polluting, the pollution does not stay put. Smoke is toxic, the particulates terrible for our lungs and brains, and most Canadians do not protect themselves or their kids with N95s or better, and quality air filtration at home.
And then, there’s COVID. Most of our health officials lied to us, told us the virus spread by droplet and was not aerosol (Dr. Bonnie Evil Henry was the worst liar), and that kids didn’t get or transmit COVID while studying and publishing how well kids caught COVID at school (air was not filtered, and kids were discouraged from wearing protective masks) and brought it home to their families and homes for their grandparents (killing many, including kids). COVID has been reported to cause serious harms to younger adults (and kids), even those that were/are asymptomatic. Women are most often the caregivers at home, in care facilities, for elders, and in the nursing, service and teaching professions. Not surprising women have been hit with worse health outcomes than males. PS COVID is not over, it’s still sickening many and wrecking immune systems, each infection damaging our bodies and brains more and more.
Then, there are the evil billionaire tech bros. AI is extremely abusive, addictive and bad for mental health, this has been proven; women and girls are being abused by AI users undressing them and distributing porn made using their photos., without consent and our Minister of AI, Evan Solomon and PM Carney do not give a shit (they’re fucking men) and refuse to punish X or stop posting on it, and refuse to regulate AI. This would greatly affect mental health of the abused women and girls as well as the abusers, usually men. Getting away with sexually abusing women and girls does not a healthy mind or body make.
And then, there’s frac’ing and LNG and or the worry of them (with women carrying the brunt of stresses because women usually tend the kids and need a lot of safe water and often care more about health and or toxicity of our environment and communities).
And then, there’s genocide and extreme evangelical pro rape misogyny, and pro rape and pro mass murder Zionism, an ideology which must be banned globally. And there is also non genocidal misogyny and rape getting more and more vicious and abundant, enabled by all authorities, including courts. Watching kids and their mothers and fathers getting blown up daily for the last 2.5 years by Israel and USA, with Canada assisting, and our main media lying about it, is bad for the heart, mind, body and soul.
Climate change is also a terrible stress and worry. We know it’s getting dramatically worse every year. We see it and feel it. Families worry about the next floods, heat domes, storms and wildfires taking them and or their homes, friends and loved ones, and causing horrific suffering and pollution. Insurance? Will we be able to afford it next year? We insurers even let us have any? Watching entire communities burn up and or wash or blow away is a mental health killer.
Lastly, the stress of knowing most of the rich and our authorities and politicians do not give a shit about us or anything but themselves, money and more money for themselves and their rich hideous kid raping pals.
Functional health decreases in all provinces
The proportion of adults with very good to perfect functional health decreased from 2015 to 2024 in all provinces. Newfoundland and Labrador decreased by 6.2 percentage points, a smaller decrease than any other province. In 2024, functional health was lowest in Nova Scotia (47.7%) and New Brunswick (48.3%). Quebec had the highest functional health from 2015 to 2024, with 65.6% of Quebec residents having very good to perfect functional health in 2024.
Emotional health worsening, especially in young adults
Examining the proportion of adults with no difficulty in each attribute shows that the decline in overall functional health from 2015 to 2024 was driven mainly by changes in emotional health and pain.
Emotional health, measured as the percentage who are happy and interested in life, decreased more than any other attribute, from 78.3% in 2015 to 61.2% in 2024. This decline is consistent with the decline in perceived mental health and increasing prevalence of mental disorders over the past decade. COVID can damage the brain, even in asymptomatic cases and can cause debilitating physical pain and weakness which can negatively affect mental health.
Emotional health was similar across all age groups in 2015, but in 2024, those aged 18 to 34 had worse emotional health than those aged 50 and older. Among all adults aged 18 and older, males were consistently less likely to be happy and interested in life than females (59.8% vs. 62.7% in 2024).No wonder, if they’re addicted to AI and abusing women and girls!
The percentage of adults with no pain or discomfort also decreased, from 77.9% in 2015 to 72.0% in 2024. Females and older adults were more likely to have pain, but the change over time was similar across age groups and sexes.
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The other plaintiffs in the suit discovered in February that similar CSAM material featuring them had also been generated via AI and shared online, with the suit seeking damages against xAI for the reputational and mental health harms resulting from the images.
“Watching my daughter have a panic attack after realizing that these images were created and distributed without any hope of recalling them was heartbreaking,” the mother of one of the girls said via a representative.
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