Publications
Cities & Health
| https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2018.1548071
2018
Environmental health assessment of communities across Canada: contextual factors study of the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds
Cardiovascular risk varies substantially across Canadian communities, suggesting that contextual environmental factors may contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease risk factors. To characterize these influences, we conducted standardized audits of 2,074 urban and rural communities across Canada between 2014 and 2016, collecting objective measures of demographic characteristics, public transportation, tobacco availability, grocery environments, alcohol pricing, and healthy restaurant options. Audit reliability was assessed through duplicate evaluations of 209 communities.
Cities & Health
| https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2018.1546560
2018
Development of an on-line interactive map to display environmental health assessments of Canadian communities: knowledge-translation to support collaborations for health
Contextual determinants of health in Canada include community demographics, tobacco, food, and alcohol. We developed an on-line and highly accessible interactive map containing information from over 2000 communities across Canada.
PROGRESS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS
| DOI: 10.1353/CPR.2018.0006
2018
Canadian Alliance For Healthy Hearts And Minds: First Nations Cohort Study Rationale And Design
This is the first national indigenous cohort study in which a common, in-depth protocol with a common set of objectives has been adopted by several indigenous communities across Canada.
BMC PUBLIC HEALTH
| 10.1186/S12889-016-3310-8
2016
Rationale, Design, And Methods For Canadian Alliance For Healthy Hearts And Minds Cohort Study (CAHHM) - A Pan Canadian Cohort Study
The Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds (CAHHM) is a pan-Canadian, prospective, multi-ethnic cohort study being conducted in Canada. The overarching objective of the CAHHM is to understand the association of socio-environmental and contextual factors (such as societal structure, activity, nutrition, social and tobacco environments, and access to health services) with cardiovascular risk factors, subclinical vascular disease, and cardiovascular and other chronic disease outcomes.
