The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) is a group dedicated to understanding urban living and its impacts on human health. They have created a new assessment tool, GoodScore.City, which looks at multiple factors […]
A new app from U of T researchers allows users to track their neighbourhood’s environmental health Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a new app that provides insights into the environmental health of […]
This series first started with three career profiles linked to COGS in Lawrencetown, NS, and then moved west to Victoria, BC. But geospatialists dot the Canadian landscape, and my next subject takes us east. I […]
Access to timely and quality health care is an important determinant of health and well-being. Despite universal health coverage in Canada, there exists socio-demographic, financial and physical geographic barriers that limit the accessibility to health […]
When does a space become a place? There are a myriad of small open spaces and buildings throughout towns and cities across Canada that offer places for play, walking, social gathering, and contemplation that are […]
Interested in how to conduct different types of spatial exposure assessments for air pollution or other exposures to a population? PHDA04: Spatial Epidemiology and Outbreak Detection is a great place to start. Exposure assessment is the […]
Is neighbourhood socioeconomic status associated with pediatric and childhood injuries? Are such injuries clustered in space? How can I model the spatial dependence in pediatric and childhood injuries in order to help policy makers develop […]
Population health research is inherently interdisciplinary, multifaceted and firmly rooted in the evolving connections between place, time and related socioeconomic processes. To excel in this rapidly diversifying field requires a broad range of skills. The […]