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  1. Income and housing are pervasive social determinants of health. Subsidized housing is a prominent affordability mechanism in Canada; however, waitlists are lengthy. Subsidized rents should provide greater acce...

    Authors: J. Woodhall-Melnik, J. R. Dunn, I. Dweik, C. Monette, E. Nombro, J. Pappas, A. Lamont, D. Dutton, S. Doucet, A. Luke, F. I. Matheson, R. Nisenbaum, V. Stergiopoulos and C. Stewart
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:2448
  2. Enteric diseases affect thousands of Canadians annually and several large outbreaks have occurred due to infection with enteric pathogens. The objectives of this study were to describe the spatial and temporal...

    Authors: James E. Valcour, Dominique F. Charron, Olaf Berke, Jeff B. Wilson, Tom Edge and David Waltner-Toews
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:204
  3. Marked disparities by socioeconomic status in the risk of potentially avoidable hospitalization for chronic illnesses have been observed in many contexts, including those with universal health coverage. Less w...

    Authors: Neeru Gupta, Dan L. Crouse and Adele Balram
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:60
  4. Indigenous youth in Canada face profound health inequities which are shaped by the rippling effects of intergenerational trauma, caused by the historical and contemporary colonial policies that reinforce negat...

    Authors: Udoka Okpalauwaekwe, Clifford Ballantyne, Scott Tunison and Vivian R. Ramsden
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1630
  5. Perceived severity and susceptibility of disease are predictors of individual behaviour during health crises. Little is known about how individual beliefs influence intentions to adhere to public health guidel...

    Authors: Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Stephana Julia Moss, Sara J. Mizen, Emily A. FitzGerald, Rebecca Brundin-Mather, Chloe de Grood, Alexandra Dodds, Henry T. Stelfox and Kirsten M. Fiest
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:464
  6. By July 2021, Canada had received enough COVID-19 vaccines to fully vaccinate every eligible Canadian. However, despite the availability of vaccines, some eligible individuals remain unvaccinated. Differences ...

    Authors: Mireille Guay, Aubrey Maquiling, Ruoke Chen, Valérie Lavergne, Donalyne-Joy Baysac, Audrey Racine, Eve Dubé, Shannon E. MacDonald and Nicolas L. Gilbert
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1708
  7. Canadian public health agencies, both municipal/regional and provincial/territorial, are responsible for promoting population health during pregnancy and the early postnatal period. This study examines how the...

    Authors: Toluwanimi D. Durowaye, Alexandra R. Rice, Anne T. M. Konkle and Karen P. Phillips
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:895
  8. Intimate partner violence (IPV) threatens the safety, health and quality of life of women worldwide. Comprehensive IPV interventions that are tailored, take a long-term view of women’s needs, including health ...

    Authors: Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Colleen Varcoe, Kelly Scott-Storey, Annette J. Browne, Susan M. Jack, Kim Jackson, Tara Mantler, Sue O’Donnell, Noël Patten-Lu, Victoria Smye, C. Nadine Wathen and Nancy Perrin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:398
  9. Social participation is a modifiable health determinant influenced by physical and social aspects of the environment. Little is known about aging women’s and men’s community activities and barriers according t...

    Authors: Daniel Naud, Mélissa Généreux, Jean-François Bruneau, Aline Alauzet and Mélanie Levasseur
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1124
  10. Indigenous peoples in Canada experience disproportionate rates of suicide compared to non-Indigenous populations. Indigenous communities and organizations have designed local and regional approaches to prevent...

    Authors: Nathaniel J. Pollock, Gwen K. Healey, Michael Jong, James E. Valcour and Shree Mulay
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1320
  11. Older adults have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and related preventative measures undertaken during the pandemic. Given clear evidence of the relationship between loneliness and health outcomes,...

    Authors: Susan A. Kirkland, Lauren E. Griffith, Urun Erbas Oz, Mary Thompson, Andrew Wister, Laura Kadowaki, Nicole E. Basta, Jacqueline McMillan, Christina Wolfson and Parminder Raina
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:872
  12. Knowledge of the relationship between men’s health and violence is flawed by narrow and faulty conceptualization and measurement of violence that often results in attribution of health problems to one form or ...

    Authors: Kelly Scott-Storey, Sue O’Donnell, Judith Wuest, Judith MacIntosh and Marilyn Merritt-Gray
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:418
  13. Perinatal mental health is a major public health problem that disproportionately affects people from racial and ethnic minority groups. Community-based perinatal mental health programs, such as peer support gr...

    Authors: Slawa Rokicki, Mitu Patel, Patricia D. Suplee and Robyn D’Oria
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1094
  14. Indigenous children in Canada (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) are disproportionately affected by nutrition-related chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Comprehensive school-based nutrition interven...

    Authors: Christina Gillies, Rosanne Blanchet, Rebecca Gokiert, Anna Farmer, Jessica Thorlakson, Laura Hamonic and Noreen D. Willows
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:11
  15. Aboriginal representation in Canadian correctional institutions has increased rapidly over the past decade. We calculated “years of life lost to incarceration” for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.

    Authors: Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Steve Kanters, Eric Druyts, Kabirraaj Toor, Katherine A Muldoon, John W Farquhar and Edward J Mills
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:585
  16. All over the world, Indigenous populations have remarkably high rates of commercial tobacco use compared to non-Indigenous groups. The high rates of commercial tobacco use in Indigenous populations have led to...

    Authors: Alexa Minichiello, Ayla R. F. Lefkowitz, Michelle Firestone, Janet K. Smylie and Robert Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:21
  17. This study presents the prevalence of burnout among the Canadian public health workforce after three years of the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with work-related factors.

    Authors: Japteg Singh, David E-O Poon, Elizabeth Alvarez, Laura Anderson, Chris P. Verschoor, Arielle Sutton, Zayya Zendo, Thomas Piggott, Emma Apatu, Donna Churipuy, Ian Culbert and Jessica P. Hopkins
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:48
  18. Microgrants are a mechanism for providing funding to community organizations or groups to support health initiatives. Little research to date has examined the use of microgrants in promoting physical activity ...

    Authors: Katherine A Tamminen, Guy Faulkner, Chad S G Witcher and John C Spence
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2014 14:1206
  19. Intimate partner violence (IPV) threatens the safety and health of women worldwide. Safety planning is a widely recommended, evidence-based intervention for women experiencing IPV, yet fewer than 1 in 5 Canadi...

    Authors: Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Colleen Varcoe, Kelly Scott-Storey, Judith Wuest, James Case, Leanne M. Currie, Nancy Glass, Marilyn Hodgins, Harriet MacMillan, Nancy Perrin and C. Nadine Wathen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2017 17:273
  20. Increasingly, decision-makers are interested in understanding the returns on investments in programs and policies that promote health and prevent chronic diseases. While the costs of these programs are more ea...

    Authors: Yipu Shi, Craig Joyce, Ron Wall, Heather Orpana and Christina Bancej
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1547
  21. Suboptimal human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates persist among adolescents in the United States (U.S.). New Jersey (NJ), among the top, most racially/ethnically diverse states in the U.S., had among the...

    Authors: Bianca Anuforo, Jennifer K. McGee-Avila, Lindsey Toler, Baichen Xu, Racquel E. Kohler, Sharon Manne and Jennifer Tsui
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:195
  22. Responding to intimate partner violence (IPV) and its consequences is made complex by women’s diverse needs, priorities and contexts. Tailored online IPV interventions that account for differences among women ...

    Authors: Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Colleen Varcoe, Kelly Scott-Storey, Nancy Perrin, Judith Wuest, C. Nadine Wathen, James Case and Nancy Glass
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:260
  23. As diet-related diseases have increased over the past decades, large food companies have come under scrutiny for contributing to this public health crisis. In response, the food industry has implemented Corpor...

    Authors: Monique Potvin Kent, Elise Pauzé, Kevin Guo, Arianne Kent and Royce Jean-Louis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:890
  24. Household food insecurity is a potent social determinant of health and health care costs in Canada, but understanding of the social and economic conditions that underlie households’ vulnerability to food insec...

    Authors: Valerie Tarasuk, Andrée-Anne Fafard St-Germain and Andrew Mitchell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:12
  25. The recreational use of cannabis was legalized across Canada in October 2018. While many people use cannabis without harm, adverse outcomes have been noted in a few populations, including middle-aged and older...

    Authors: Asvini Keethakumar, Vrati M. Mehra, Nazilla Khanlou and Hala Tamim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:26
  26. Healthy public policy is an important tool for creating environments that support human health and wellbeing. At the local level, municipal policies, such as zoning bylaws, provide an opportunity for governmen...

    Authors: Candace I. J. Nykiforuk, Elizabeth J. Campbell, Soultana Macridis, Daniel McKennitt, Kayla Atkey and Kim D. Raine
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:137
  27. Given the downward trend in age at menarche and its implications for the reproductive health and wellbeing of women, little is known about menarcheal age in Canada. Most Canadian studies are only representativ...

    Authors: Ban Al-Sahab, Chris I Ardern, Mazen J Hamadeh and Hala Tamim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2010 10:736
  28. Healthy movement behaviours of Canadian children and youth have been found to be suboptimal; this is associated with declines in physical fitness, increases in obesity, and elevated chronic disease risk. Physi...

    Authors: Mark S. Tremblay, Christa Costas-Bradstreet, Joel D. Barnes, Brett Bartlett, Diana Dampier, Chantal Lalonde, Reg Leidl, Patricia Longmuir, Melanie McKee, Rhonda Patton, Richard Way and Jennifer Yessis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18(Suppl 2):1034

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 18 Supplement 2

  29. Influenza vaccination is recommended for those at increased risk of influenza complications and their household contacts to help reduce influenza exposure. Adults who require care often experience health issue...

    Authors: Katie Gravagna, Christina Wolfson and Nicole E. Basta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:924
  30. Within Canadian provinces over the past half-century, legislation has been enacted to increase child protection organization (CPO) involvement in situations of child maltreatment (CM). This study had two objec...

    Authors: Lil Tonmyr, Ben Mathews, Margot E. Shields, Wendy E. Hovdestad and Tracie O. Afifi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2018 18:1021
  31. Reproductive health promotion can enable early mitigation of behavioral and environmental risk factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, while optimizing health of women + (all genders that can gesta...

    Authors: Alexandra R. Rice, Toluwanimi D. Durowaye, Anne T. M. Konkle and Karen P. Phillips
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:1647
  32. Since young children spend approximately 30 h per week in early childcare centres (ECC), this setting is ideal to foster healthy behaviours. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the Healthy Start-Dé...

    Authors: Anne Leis, Stéphanie Ward, Hassan Vatanparast, M. Louise Humbert, Amanda Froehlich Chow, Nazeem Muhajarine, Rachel Engler-Stringer and Mathieu Bélanger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2020 20:523
  33. Chronic back disorders (CBD) are a global health problem and the leading cause of years lived with disability. The present study aims to examine overall and specific trends in CBD in the Canadian population ag...

    Authors: Adriana Angarita-Fonseca, Catherine Trask, Tayyab Shah and Brenna Bath
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1121
  34. The paper presents two-year findings from a study investigating the effectiveness of Housing First (HF) with assertive community treatment (ACT) in helping individuals with serious mental illness, who are home...

    Authors: Tim Aubry, Jimmy Bourque, Paula Goering, Susan Crouse, Scott Veldhuizen, Stefanie LeBlanc, Rebecca Cherner, Paul-Émile Bourque, Sarah Pakzad and Claudette Bradshaw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1154
  35. Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important determinant of health and potential modifier of the effects of environmental contaminants. There has been a lack of comprehensive indices for measuring overall SES in...

    Authors: Emily Chan, Jesus Serrano, Li Chen, David M. Stieb, Michael Jerrett and Alvaro Osornio-Vargas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:714
  36. Understanding public perceptions of the health risks of climate change is critical to inform risk communication and support the adoption of adaptive behaviours. In Canada, very few studies have explored public...

    Authors: Nora Casson, Laura Cameron, Ian Mauro, Karl Friesen-Hughes and Rhéa Rocque
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:212
  37. Few children meet physical activity (PA) recommendations, and are therefore at increased risk for overweight/obesity and adverse health outcomes. To increase children’s opportunities for PA, several Canadian p...

    Authors: Dana Lee Olstad, Elizabeth J Campbell, Kim D Raine and Candace IJ Nykiforuk
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:385
  38. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed various aspects of our lives, including how we work. Since the start of the pandemic, numerous organizations in Canada have mandated their employees to work from h...

    Authors: Kumara G. Somasundram, Amy Hackney, Marcus Yung, Bronson Du, Jodi Oakman, Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia and Amin Yazdani
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2022 22:1987
  39. Childhood obesity is a growing concern for public health. Given a majority of children in many countries spend approximately 30 h per week in early childcare centers, this environment represents a promising se...

    Authors: Mathieu Bélanger, Louise Humbert, Hassan Vatanparast, Stéphanie Ward, Nazeem Muhajarine, Amanda Froehlich Chow, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Denise Donovan, Natalie Carrier and Anne Leis
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2016 16:313
  40. Efforts to increase physical activity in youth need to consider which activities are most likely to be sustained over time in order to promote lifelong participation in physical activity. The Monitoring Activi...

    Authors: Mathieu Bélanger, Isabelle Caissie, Jacinthe Beauchamp, Jennifer O’Loughlin, Catherine Sabiston and Michelina Mancuso
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:649
  41. Substance use and weight gain among youth increase the risk for future disease. As such, the purpose of this study is to examine how many Canadian youth are currently failing to meet substance use and weight g...

    Authors: Scott T Leatherdale and Vicki Rynard
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2013 13:569
  42. The increased scrutiny on public health brought upon by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic provides a strong impetus for a renewal of public health systems. This paper seeks to understand priorities of public healt...

    Authors: F. Antoine Dedewanou, Sara Allin, Ak’ingabe Guyon, Jasmine Pawa and Mehdi Ammi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:544
  43. We conducted a scoping review to define the extent and type of quantitative health status research conducted from 1993 to 2014 with people who have experienced detention or incarceration in correctional facili...

    Authors: Fiona G Kouyoumdjian, Andrée Schuler, Stephen W Hwang and Flora I Matheson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2015 15:419
  44. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the spread of misinformation worldwide. The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of misinformation and preferred sources of obtaining COVID-19 information from tho...

    Authors: Suvabna Theivendrampillai, Jeanette Cooper, Taehoon Lee, Michelle Wai Ki Lau, Christine Marquez, Sharon E. Straus and Christine Fahim
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:796
  45. Previous studies have associated elevated mortality risk in central Appalachia with coal-mining activities, but few have explored how different non-coal factors influence the association within each county. Co...

    Authors: Ruoding Shi, Susan Meacham, George C. Davis, Wen You, Yu Sun and Cody Goessl
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:1484
  46. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are not eligible to donate blood or plasma in Canada if they have had sex with another man in the last 3 months. This time-based deferment has reduced since 2013; from an initia...

    Authors: Daniel Grace, Mark Gaspar, Benjamin Klassen, David Lessard, Praney Anand, David J. Brennan, Nathan Lachowsky, Barry D. Adam, Joseph Cox, Gilles Lambert, Jody Jollimore and Trevor A. Hart
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2021 21:444
  47. Multimorbidity can be defined as the presence of more than one chronic condition in an individual. Research on multimorbidity has predominantly focused on older adults and few studies have examined multimorbid...

    Authors: Mohammad Nazmus Sakib, Shahin Shooshtari, Philip St. John and Verena Menec
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2019 19:243

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