FNEHIN - First Nations Environmental Health Innovation Network

Expertise:

Geography of early child development, Health inequalities, Housing and health, Housing and mental illness, Neighbourhoods and health, Socio-economic determinants of health

Focus:

Socio-economic determinants of health and the influence of economic and social policies and programs on health inequalities; relationship between income distribution and population health in North American metropolitan areas, the relationship between housing and population health in selected Canadian cities and the effects of supportive housing for people with mental illness on health, quality of life and health care utilization in Toronto; effects of social housing on health of low-income families, and the influence of neighbourhood socio-economic factors on the spatial patterning of early child development outcomes in urban Canada.

Affiliations:

CIHR-PHAC Chair in Applied Public Health. Associate Professor, Department of Health, Aging & Society, McMaster University. Research Scientist, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Academic Supervisor (if Applicable)

Research Area(s)

Housing

Geographical Preference(s)

Ontario, British Columbia

Projects

• The Effects of Supportive Housing on the Health Status and Service Utilization of Homeless and Hard-to-House Adults
• Does supportive housing for people with serious mental illness improve health and quality of life and reduce avoidable hospital use?
• Gender-related differences in Diabetes susceptibility: The relative contribution of social, environmental and lifestyle factors
• Health care, technology, and place: An interdisciplinary capacity enhancement team
• An integrated training program in health and social science research to improve the health of marginalized populations
• A prospective study to explore the impact of housing support and homelessness on the health outcomes of people living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario
• Health care, technology, and place: A transdisciplinary research training program
• Feasibility Study for a Two City Demonstration of Supportive Housing for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
• Metropolitan socio-economic inequality and population health in North America
• Geographies of the social production of health
• CIHR team grant in Canadian homelessness, housing, and health
• Neighbourhood health effects: A systematic review of research evidence and place-based policy prescriptions
• Speaking theoretically about population health: Commentary on Carpiano RM and Daley DM
• Relations between self-perceived relative social position and self-rated health: Results from a nationally representative survey of the Canadian population.
• Commentary: Swimming upstream: Access, health outcomes, and the social determinants of health.
• Income distribution, public services expenditures, and all-cause mortality in U.S. states.
• Metropolitan income inequality and working age mortality: A cross-sectional analysis using comparable data from five countries.
• Gender, socio-economic attributes of housing, and self-rated health.
• Dimensions and dynamics of residential segregation by income in urban Canada, 1991-1996.
• Housing and inequalities in health: A study of socio-economic dimensions of housing and self-reported health from a survey of Vancouver residents.
• Income segregation, income inequality and mortality in North American metropolitan areas.
• The impact of fathers physical and psychosocial work conditions on attempted and completed suicide among their children.
• Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grant in Homelessness, Housing, and Health
• Understanding and Addressing Neighbourhood Factors in the Production of Urban Health Disparities