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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Rachpaul CC, Sendanyoye C, Mahling A, Sourial M, & Trto S. (2021). “Report: Service Provision for Children and Youth with Disabilities in Rural Canada and Australia.” Spatial Determinants of Health Lab, Carleton University: Ottawa ON. DOI: 10.22215/sdhlab/2021.2. A full PDF of this report is also available. BACKGROUND Children and youth... More
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Barnabe J., Petrie S., & P. Peters. 2020. Virtual Triage and Teletriage in Rural Canada and Australia: A Rapid Review. Spatial Determinants of Health Lab Ottawa, ON. doi: 10.22215/sdhlab/2020.2. A complete PDF is also available for download. Public Health Topic Health care services and healthcare infrastructure in rural areas... More
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Mahling A, M LeBlanc, & PA Peters. (2020). "Rural Resilience and Community Connections in Health: Outcomes of a Community Workshop." Spatial Determinants of Health Lab, Carleton University: Ottawa ON. DOI: 10.22215/sdhlab/2020.1. Full PDF available. Canadians living in rural communities are diverse, with individual communities defined by... More
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
The Spatial Determinants of Health Lab at Carleton University, Canada, stands in solidarity with members of Black, Indigenous and other racialized minorities calling for justice against historic and ongoing state-sponsored violence. This anti-Black violence has again rose into the public view by horrific killings in the United States of George... More
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Morris S, Stevens S, Leblanc M, Petrie S, Carson DB & PA Peters (2019). Infographic: Telepediatrics in Rural and Remote Regions. Spatial Determinants of Health Lab, Carleton University: Ottawa, ON. DOI:10.22215/sdhlab/kt/2019.4 A high-quality PDF of this infographic is available for... More
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Waid C, Sinclair L, Priest L, Petrie S, Carson DB, Stevens S, & PA Peters (2019). Infographic: Rural Youth Mental Health Interventions. Spatial Determinants of Health Lab, Carleton University: Ottawa, ON. DOI:10.22215/sdhlab/kt/2019.2 A high-quality PDF of this infographic is available for download. Estimates are that 20% of the world's youth... 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
Monday, January 22, 2018
This paper was done using widely available geographic data, and in addition to the findings of proximity to liquor store sales, shows how seemingly simple data can be used for social determinants of health research. Abstract OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this project was to evaluate how changes to the sale of alcohol in New Brunswick... 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
Friday, October 6, 2017
In a recent article, we investigated the potential links between green space and cause-specific mortality. We found that higher levels of urban greenness were associated with reduced risk of mortality for several causes of death. This study is one of the largest of its kind, and improves upon previous studies with a long mortality... More
Sunday, June 18, 2017
AK Slaunwhite, ST Ronis, Y Sun, PA Peters Health & social care in the community 25 (3), 840-847 The purpose of this project was to examine the emotional health and well-being of Canadian caregivers of persons with significant mental health or addictions problems. We assessed the emotional health of caregivers by care-receiver condition type... More
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