A5033217373- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Physical Activity and Health
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Noise Effects and Management
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Housing Market and Economics
- Community Health and Development
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
Université de Montréal
2016-2025
Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
2015-2024
McGill University
2010-2021
Montreal Police Service
2018
Institut Pierre Louis d‘Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique
2016
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
2016
Centre de Médecine Préventive
2012-2015
Institute of Population and Public Health
2014
Canadians Living with HIV
2014
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
2014
Purpose Previous research on the influence of food environment weight status has often used impersonal measures defined for residential neighborhoods, which ignore whether people actually use outlets near their residence. To assess supermarkets are relevant contexts interventions, present study explored between-residential neighborhood and between-supermarket variations in body mass index (BMI) waist circumference (WC), investigated associations between brands characteristics BMI or WC,...
ABSTRACT Background: There is growing evidence that neighborhood environments are related to depressive mood in the general population. Older adults may be even more vulnerable factors than other adults. The aim of this paper review empirical findings on relationships between characteristics and among older Methods: A search literature was undertaken PsycINFO MEDLINE. Results: Nineteen studies were identified. Study designs most often cross-sectional, included large sample sizes, controlled...
Objective Environmental exposure to food sources may underpin area level differences in individual risk for overweight. Place of residence is generally used assess neighbourhood exposure. Yet, because people are mobile, multiple exposures should be accounted the relation between environments and Unfortunately, mobility data often missing from health surveys. We hereby test feasibility linking travel survey with listings derive store predictors overweight among participants. Methods Food...
Accurate information is lacking on the extent of transportation as a source physical activity, activity gains from public use, and to which population shifts in use modes could increase percentage people reaching official recommendations.In 2012-2013, 234 participants RECORD GPS Study (French Paris region, median age = 58) wore portable receiver an accelerometer for 7 consecutive days completed 7-day GPS-based mobility survey (participation rate 57.1%). Information accelerometry data...
Health studies and mHealth applications are increasingly resorting to tracking technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) study the relation between mobility, exposures, health. GPS generates large sets of geographic data that need be transformed useful for health research. This paper proposes a method test performance activity place detection algorithms, compares novel kernel-based algorithm with more traditional time-distance cluster method.A set 750 artificial tracks containing...
Walkability is a popular term used to describe aspects of the built and social environment that have important population-level impacts on physical activity, energy balance, health. Although widely by researchers, practitioners, general public, multiple operational definitions walkability measurement tools exist, there are no agreed-upon conceptual definition walkability.
Abstract Background Recent rapid growth in urban areas and the desire to create liveable neighbourhoods has brought about a renewed interest planning for compact cities, with concepts like 20-minute neighbourhood (20MN) becoming more popular. A 20MN broadly reflects that allows residents meet their daily (non-work) needs within short, non-motorised, trip from home. The concept underpins key strategy of Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, however definition not been operationalised....
This article is the winner of Real Estate Valuation manuscript prize (sponsored by The Appraisal Institute) presented at 2001 American Society Annual Meeting.This hedonic study investigates effect landscaping on house values, based a detailed field survey 760 single-family homes sold between 1993 and 2000 territory Quebec Urban Community. Environmental information includes thirty-one attributes both houses their immediate environment. By large, positive tree cover differential property its...
Abstract Background Food- and activity-related establishments are increasingly viewed as neighbourhood resources that potentially condition health-related behaviour. The primary objective of the current study was to establish, using ground truthing (on-site verification), validity measures availability food stores physical activity were obtained from commercial database Internet searches. A secondary examine differences in results according characteristics establishment categories. Methods...
Objectives. We examined associations between residential exposure to BIXI (BIcycle-taXI)—a public bicycle share program implemented in Montreal, Quebec, 2009, which increases accessibility cycling by making available 5050 bicycles at 405 docking stations—and likelihood of (BIXI and non-BIXI) Montreal over the first 2 years implementation. Methods. Three population-based samples adults participated telephone surveys. Data collection occurred launch (spring 2009), end (fall 2009) second 2010)...
This study estimated the modal shift associated with implementation of a public bicycle share program in Montreal, Canada. A population-based sample adults participated two cross sectional telephone surveys. Self-reported travel behaviors were collected at end first (fall 2009) and second 2010) season implementation. The included 2502 (Mean age=47.8 years, 61.8% female), 2509 age=48.9 59.0% female) adult respondents each survey. PBSP from motor vehicle use to walking, cycling, transportation...
This report presents the initial results of first Epidemiological Catchment Area Study in mental health Canada. Five neighbourhoods South-West sector Montreal, with a population 258,000, were under study. The objectives research program were: 1) to assess prevalence and incidence psychological distress, disorders, substance abuse, parasuicide, risky behaviour quality life; 2) examine links interactions between individual determinants, neighbourhood ecology each neighbourhood; 3) identify...