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Saturday, September 12, 2015
I must commend Health Minister Boudreau for recognizing the need to address issues of population health in New Brunswick (Daily Gleaner, June 2015). This province has some of the highest rates of chronic disease in Canada, high rates of obesity, and high rates of smoking (see Statistics Canada). Overall, New Brunswick does not fare well... More
Thursday, June 18, 2015
The cholera maps of John Snow have long captured health geographers and epidemiologists. Much has been written on this in recent years, most notably the superb book by Steven Johnson, Ghost Map. An upcoming article in the International Journal of Health Geographics provides perhaps the only research insight into the cholera event itself, using a... More
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