{"id":1569,"date":"2025-04-29T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:57:29","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 Determinants of Health Lab\n <\/h1>\n \n \n\n

Advancing spatial and social theory to understand and address health inequities in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Health is not distributed randomly. It is shaped by where people live, work, and age \u2014 and by the social and structural forces that make some places healthier than others. The Spatial Determinants of Health Lab<\/strong> at Carleton University studies these relationships through the lens of health geography, using spatial theory and quantitative methods to understand how place, inequality, and health intersect across Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our research is connected via a focus on quantitative methods and the development of novel measurement approaches, analytic tools, and new data sources. Recent methods development includes assessment of postal code geocoding error, development of a national population density surface, and a service-specific rural accessibility index. Research themes include: health inequalities and antifragility in rural communities; geography and mental health; environmental exposures and neurodevelopmental disorders; and multiple-cause-related mortality by income and geography. Across these projects, our team works with complex Statistics Canada microdata in the\u00a0Carleton Research Data Centre<\/a>, develops interactive geospatial visualizations, and promotes open science through open-access datasets and code libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Themes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n