A5001034888- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Community Health and Development
- Physical Activity and Health
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Media in Health Education
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
- Health Policy Implementation Science
Simon Fraser University
2018-2024
Introduction Improving sustainable transportation options will help cities tackle growing challenges related to population health, congestion, climate change and inequity. Interventions supporting active face many practical political hurdles. Implementation science aims understand how interventions or policies arise, they can be translated new contexts scales who benefits. Sustainable are complex, existing implementation frameworks may not suitable. To apply adapt for healthy cities, we have...
This article describes the epidemiology of child pedestrian fatalities in British Columbia using data generated by province's Child Death Review Unit, to demonstrate unique capacity death review provide an ecological understanding mortality and catalyse evidence based, multi-level prevention strategies.All from 1 January 2003 31 December 2008 were reviewed. Data on demographics, circumstance injury, risk factors related child, driver, vehicle, physical environment extracted. Frequency...
Urban form interventions can result in positive and negative impacts on physical activity, social participation, well-being, inequities these outcomes. Natural experiment studies advance our understanding of causal effects processes related to urban interventions. The INTErventions, Research, Action Cities Team (INTERACT) is a pan-Canadian collaboration interdisciplinary scientists, planners, public health decision makers advancing research the design healthy sustainable cities for all. Our...
Background Public health research studies often rely on population-based participation and draw various recruitment methods to establish samples. Increasingly, researchers are turning web-based tools. However, few detail traditional efforts in terms of costs potential biases. Objective This study aims report evaluate the cost-effectiveness, time effectiveness, sociodemographic representation diverse used enroll participants 3 cities Interventions, Research, Action Cities Team (INTERACT)...
Built environment interventions have the potential to improve population health and reduce inequities. The objective of this paper is present first wave INTErventions, Research, Action in Cities Team (INTERACT) cohort studies Victoria, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Montreal, Canada. We examine how our cohorts compared Canadian census data summary for outcomes interest (physical activity, well-being, social connectedness). also compare location activity spaces from survey data, research-grade GPS...
Social isolation and loneliness are a growing public health concern. Inadequacies in neighbourhood social infrastructure can undermine connectedness, particularly for youth, who dependent on their local environments yet often marginalized from spaces city planning. Integrating citizen science with participatory action research, the Youth.hood study set out to explore how built help or hinder connectedness understudied perspective of youth under-resourced racialized communities.
In response to growing levels of social isolation and loneliness in cities, the promotion connectedness has come forefront urban health, sustainability, resiliency agendas. Despite policy attention locally internationally, is not consistently defined, conceptualized, or measured population health planning research. The term also been used interchangeably with various other concepts research on environments particularly cohesion, capital, inclusion. These discrepancies create confusion for...
This article argues for the need attention to agency as well structure in planning complete neighbourhoods and communities, drawing upon collective capabilities theory driven by a community-engaged research approach. While communities proposes provide more fulsome social physical infrastructure residents context of urban growth change Canadian cities, contemporary efforts tend neglect or disdain empowerment residents. logic rationale has shifted compared origins neighbourhood Canada, will be...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Public health research studies often rely on population-based participation and draw various recruitment methods to establish samples. Increasingly, researchers are turning web-based tools. However, few detail traditional efforts in terms of costs potential biases. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study aims report evaluate the cost-effectiveness, time effectiveness, sociodemographic representation diverse used enroll participants 3 cities Interventions,...