{"id":1569,"date":"2025-04-29T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:48:28","slug":"cutheme-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatial and Social Determinants of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Spatial and Social Determinants of Health\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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Work in the Spatial Determinants Lab focuses on the study of health inequities in small places and small spaces. Despite decades of universal healthcare for many countries around the world, there still remain pronounced inequities in the social determinants of health and health outcomes. These systemic differences are manifest between social groups and across a range of factors such as income, education, and ethnicity. At the same time, health inequities are spatially evident, with differences between countries, regions, communities, and neighbourhoods. Understanding the relationship between social processes, geography, and human health is the focus of our Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our lab has a dedicated group of scholars working on a diverse range of projects. These projects have a focus on health inequalities with projects on access to health services, migration and health, environmental exposures and neurodevelopmental disorders, multiple cause mortality, and interactive data visualization. Students are using complex, confidential Statistics Canada micro data in the Carleton Research Data Centre<\/a> and developing new quantitative methods in health geography. Past students have examined implementation of rural eHealth initiatives<\/a>, or the barriers and facilitators for rural health<\/a> internationally and in Canada’ North. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We support scholars at all stages in their academic careers \u2013 from undergraduate interns in their first or second years, directed studies projects, and senior honours theses \u2013 to graduate students in our Master\u2019s in Health, Science, Technology, and Policy (HSTP), research-based Master\u2019s of Science, and PhD programs. We also have several affiliated scholars from other departments and faculties on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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