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Friday, April 7, 2023
Poster Images COVID-19 Deaths in Canada Authors: Michel Lopez Barrios, Tomoko McGaughey, Morgan Klym, and Paul Peters Presented at: Population Association of America Conference, April 13, 2023. The analysis of COVID-19 mortality using a single cause represents a significant limitation to understanding the disease. In this study, the relationship... More
Monday, May 13, 2019
In a recent commentary published in the University of Toronto Medical Journal I argue that we need to broaden the narrative on rural health. In this commentary, I claim that in order to be sensitive and relevant, rural health research must change the perspective through which it views rural people and rural communities. First,... More
Monday, August 20, 2018
The objective of this study was to identify seasonal variations in mental health–related hospitalizations among children, adolescents, and adults using administrative health data. Hospital admission records from January 2004 to March, 2014 were sourced from the New Brunswick Discharge Abstract Database. Seasonality was measured using a cosinor... More
Thursday, July 26, 2018
This article is the the latest from our international research team examining small villages in the developed world. For this research, we combined three case studies we had conducted in Australia, Canada, and Sweden and used these to confront the notion of rural "decline." Small rural villages are often characterized by 'decline' in literature,... More
Monday, December 18, 2017
This article was recently published in the Journal of New Brunswick Studies, in their special issue on the health of New Brunswickers. In this article, I explored how much we can understand from core population health indicators, and the relationship between these and population change at the sub-regional level. Abstract: This paper considers... More
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Ambient PM2.5, O3, and NO2 Exposures and Associations with Mortality over 16 Years of Follow-Up in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC) Environmental Health Perspectives Background: Few studies examining the associations between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality have considered multiple pollutants... More
Monday, June 15, 2015
Background: The risk of lung cancer has been shown to be related to socioeconomic status (SES). Because the Canadian Cancer Registry does not contain socioeconomic data, the 1991 Canadian Census Cohort was used to study social determinants of lung cancer risk in the general Canadian population. Data and methods: This study examines incidence... More
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