Health inequalities in urban and rural Canada: Comparing inequalities in survival according to an individual and area-based deprivation index

Pampalon, Robert; Hamel, Denis; Gamache, Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.11.012

Cited by 87 publications

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“…A Canadian study compared survival inequalities using both an area-based index and an individual index of deprivation. The authors concluded that survival inequalities in rural areas were lower than in urban areas when using an area-based index but of a similar magnitude when using an individual index (Pampalon, Hamel, and Gamache 2010), which is consistent with the findings of our study.…”

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confidence: 91%

Neighborhoods and mortality in Sweden: Is deprivation best assessed nationally or regionally?

Åström¹,

Franks²,

Sundquist³

2018

DemRes

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Neighborhoods and mortality in Sweden: Is deprivation best assessed nationally or regionally?

Åström¹,

Franks²,

Sundquist³

2018

DemRes

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“…Therefore, even if there were a true relationship between food environments and dietary or health outcomes, the use of city-specific food environment data in Canadian studies would diminish the magnitude of the relationship. Moreover, the lack of rural food environments research in Canada (with a few notable exceptions 54,55 ) is a major limitation, given that one in five Canadians live in rural areas 55 and that rural Canadians are at a health disadvantage compared with their urban counterparts [56][57][58] and have poorer diets, which may be in part explained by poor access to resources. 57 Future research should therefore explicitly consider rural retail food environments and should be conducted at a functional region (city-region or multiple municipalities of different sizes within an economic corridor) or provincial level, in addition to examining their associations with diet and anthropometric or health-related outcomes.…”

Section: Key Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retail food environments research in Canada: A scoping review

Minaker

Shuh

Olstad

et al. 2016

Can J Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: The field of retail food environments research is relatively new in Canada. The objective of this scoping review is to provide an overview of retail food environments research conducted before July 2015 in Canada. Specifically, this review describes research foci and key findings, identifies knowledge gaps and suggests future directions for research. METHODS:A search of published literature concerning Canadian investigations of retail food environment settings (food stores, restaurants) was conducted in July 2015 using PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, PsychInfo and ERIC. Studies published in English that reported qualitative or quantitative data on any aspect of the retail food environment were included, as were conceptual papers and commentaries. SYNTHESIS:Eighty-eight studies were included in this review and suggest that the field of retail food environments research is rapidly expanding in Canada. While only 1 paper was published before 2005, 66 papers were published between 2010 and 2015. Canadian food environments research typically assessed either the socio-economic patterning of food environments (n = 28) or associations between retail food environments and diet, anthropometric or health outcomes (n = 33). Other papers profiled methodological research, qualitative studies, intervention research and critical commentaries (n = 27). Key gaps in the current literature include measurement inconsistency among studies and a lack of longitudinal and intervention studies. CONCLUSION:Retail food environments are a growing topic of research, policy and program development in Canada. Consistent methods (where appropriate), longitudinal and intervention research, and close partnerships between researchers and key stakeholders would greatly advance the field of retail food environments research in Canada.

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“…Examining research comparing linkage and positional errors in urban and rural areas sheds light on the future of this type of research in Canada. For example, Pampalon et al 13 showed that survival inequalities in small towns and rural areas are lower than elsewhere when area-based measures of socioeconomic status are used. It is plausible that the different results for urban and rural areas are due to positional and linkage errors in the data.…”

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confidence: 99%