Adele Balram
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The Impact of Rural Hospital Closures and Health Service Restructuring on Provincial- and Community-Level Patterns of Hospital Admissions in New Brunswick Open
In the early 2000s, the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, undertook health system restructuring, including closing some rural hospitals. We examined whether changes in geographic access to hospitals and primary care were associated with c…
Individual and community-level income and the risk of diabetes rehospitalization among women and men: a Canadian population-based cohort study Open
Background 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 well known is how ge…
View article: Evidence from the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort. On greenness moderating the association between exposure to air pollution and risk of mortality
Evidence from the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort. On greenness moderating the association between exposure to air pollution and risk of mortality Open
S07: Of moderators and mediators: Complex relationships between greenness, air pollution, noise, and health behaviors in driving health outcomes, Beatrix Theater, August 27, 2019, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Background: Studies have consistently d…
Complex relationships between greenness, air pollution, and mortality in a population-based Canadian cohort Open
Studies that do not account for greenness may overstate the air pollution impacts on mortality. Residents in deprived neighbourhoods with high greenness benefitted by having more attenuated associations between PM2.5 and mortality than tho…
Associations between Living Near Water and Risk of Mortality among Urban Canadians Open
Our findings suggest that living near blue spaces in urban areas has important benefits to health, but further work is needed to better understand the drivers of this association. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP3397.