Project 03-SSH-UTO-0227 – William Gnam, “The Impact of Alcohol Dependence on Labour Market Outcomes”, CCHS 1.1.
Contract expiry date: Dec 31, 2004.
Conference presentation: “Using Propensity Scores to Estimate Causal Effects from Survey Data: the Impact of Alcohol Dependence on Labour Market Outcomes.” W. Gnam, the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 30 October 2003.
Project 03-SSH-UTO-0260 – Scott Walsworth, “Multinational Companies and New Economy in Canada”, WES. Contract expiry date: July 31, 2004.
Project 03-SSH-UTO-0261 – Flora Matheson, “Community and Well-being”, CCHS 1.1, NPHS – Census/Business data. This project is complete.
Contract expiry date: Nov 30, 2005.
Refereed article: Smith, K. L. W., Matheson, F. I., Moineddin, R., & Glazier, R. H. (2007). Gender, Income and Immigration Differences in Depression in Canadian Urban Centres. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 98(2), 149-153.
Refereed article: Matheson, F. I., Moineddin, R., Dunn, J. R., Creatore, M. I., Gozdyra, P., & Glazier, R. H. (2006). Urban Neighborhoods, Chronic Stress, Gender and Depression. Social Science and Medicine, 63(10), 2604- 2616.
Toronto Region Statistics Canada Research Data Centre: Activity Report 2008 83 Refereed article: Matheson, F. I., Moineddin, R., & Glazier, R. H. (2008). The Weight of Place: A Multilevel
Analysis of Gender, Neighborhood Material Deprivation, and Body Mass Index Among Canadian Adults. Social Science & Medicine, 66(3), 675-690.
Conference presentation: Flora I. Matheson, Moineddin, Rahim, Dunn, James R., Creatore, Marisa I., Gozdyra, Piotr, Glazier, Rahim H. “Urban Neighborhoods, Stress, Gender, and Depression: a factorial ecology.” American Sociological Association, 100th Annual Meeting. Session: Section on Community and
Urban Sociology / Gender and Urban Space. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 13-16, 2005
Conference presentation: Flora I. Matheson, Moineddin, Rahim, Dunn, James R., Creatore, Marisa I., Gozdyra, Piotr, Glazier, Rahim H. “Identifying Dimensions of Neighborhood Socio-economic Conditions Relevant to the Prevalence of Depression in the Community.” The Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 5-9, 2005
Conference presentation: Flora I. Matheson. “Perspectives on Gender, Neighbourhood Chronic Stress and Health.” Invited lecture for Women's Health Research in Progress Rounds, Women's College Hospital, February 7th, 2007.
Conference presentation: Flora I. Matheson, Moineddin, Rahim, Dunn, James R. White, Heather L. and Glazier, Richard H. “Drinking in context: Exploring the relationship among gender, neighborhood deprivation & alcohol consumption”. The 2007 International Urban Health Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 31- November 2, 2007.
Conference presentation: Flora I. Matheson, Moineddin, R., Glazier, R.H. “A multilevel analysis of gender, neighborhood chronic stress, self-perceived stress and body mass index.” Session Title: Health Problems: Obesity or Stress. The 2007 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21 2007.
Conference presentation: Flora I. Matheson, Moineddin, R., Glazier, R.H. “A multilevel analysis of gender, neighborhood chronic stress, self-perceived stress and body mass index.” Session Title: Health Problems: Obesity or Stress. The 2007 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21 2007.
Conference presentation: Flora I. Matheson, Moineddin, Rahim, Dunn, James R., White, Heather L., Glazier, Richard H. “Drinking in context: Exploring the relationships among gender, neighborhood deprivation & alcohol consumption.” Oral presentation on completed research, North American Primary Care Research Group, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, November 15-19, 2008.
Conference presentation: Heather L. White, Matheson, Flora I., Moineddin, Rahim, Dunn, James R., Glazier, Richard H. “Neighborhood chronic stress and gender inequalities in hypertension among Canadian adults.” Extended Paper presentation on completed research, North American Primary Care Research Group, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, November 15-19, 2008.
Conference presentation: Heather White, Matheson, Flora I., Moineddin, Rahim, Dunn, James R., Glazier, Richard H. "Neighborhood chronic stress and gender inequalities in hypertension among Canadian adults.” Paper presented at the Women’s College Research Institute 7th Annual Graduate Student Research Day, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 12, 2008.
Course materials: Flora I. Matheson. “Perspectives on Gender, Neighbourhood Chronic Stress and Health.” Invited lecture for Sociology of Mental Health (SOC363), Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, November 22, 2007.
Government report: Flora I. Matheson, Rahim Moineddin, James R. Dunn, Maria Isabella Creatore, Peter Gozdyra, Richard H. Glazier. “Urban Neighborhoods, Chronic Stress, Gender and Depression.” Draft manuscript provided to Statistics Canada.
Report to policy group: Flora I. Matheson. “Women, Weight, & Where You Live.” Community Discussion Series on Neighbourhoods and Health sponsored by the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital. Ralph Thornton Centre, Riverdale, Toronto, Ontario February 25, 2008. Community response by Jen Plyer and staff from the STOP
Media coverage: “Study finds fat cats really are fatter. Neighbourhood wealth, gender linked to weight, Canadian study shows.” The Toronto Star, February 9, 2008, page A16, reported by Joseph Hall.
Media coverage: “The bigger the paycheque, the bigger the waist - but only for men, study says.” The Globe and Mail, February 9, 2008, page A7, reported by Caroline Alphonso.
UPDATED APRIL 30, 2006 (1 article, 1 government report)
UPDATED DECEMBER 31, 2007 (2 articles, 6 conference presentations, 1 course material, 2 media coverages)
Toronto Region Statistics Canada Research Data Centre: Activity Report 2008 84 Project 03-HRD-UTO-0276 – Charles Jones, “Seminal Approaches to the Study of Children's Trajectories of
Individual Outcomes”, NLSCY, YITS. This project was done under contract to HRDC. A report was submitted to them in March 2002. Analysis of NLSCY Cycles 1 to 3 in the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre is completed and work continues with the public use files from the same survey.
Contract expiry date: June 30, 2003. (Final Report submitted to HRDC March 31, 2002.)
Project 03-SSH-UTO-0291 – Enza Gucciardi, Tina Badiani & Donna E. Stewart, “Prevalence of and Demographics Associated with the Misperception of Being Overweight: Findings from the 2000/01 Canadian Community Health Survey”, CCHS 1.1. This project is complete and a manuscript is in review.
Contract expiry date: Nov 30, 2003 - in the process of a renewal. (Report completed for Statistics Canada.) UPDATED APRIL 30, 2004 (project complete, manuscript in review).
Project 03-HRD-UTO-0292 – Jenny Jenkins, Jane Sprott & Tony Doob, “Preventing Delinquency: Understanding the Development and Nature of School Attachment”, NLSCY. This project was done under contract to HRDC. A report was submitted to them in March 2002. Problems with data quality (including missing data) led us not to pursue a peer- reviewed publication for this study.
Contract expiry date: March 31, 2002. (Progress report completed for Statistics Canada; A report was submitted to HRDC in March 2002 entitled "Preventing Delinquency: understanding the development and nature of school attachment".)
Refereed article: Sprott, J., Jenkins, J.M. and Doob, A. (2005) The importance of school. Protecting at-risk youth from offending. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 3, 59-77
UPDATED APRIL 30, 2007 (1 article)
Project 03-HRD-UTO-0299 – Charles Jones, “Gender and Children's Developmental Trajectories”, NLSCY. This project was done under contract to HRDC. A report was submitted to them in March 2002. Analysis of NLSCY Cycles 1 to 3 in the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre is completed and work continues with the public use files from the same survey.
Contract expiry date: June 30, 2003. (Final Report submitted to HRDC March 31, 2002.)
Project 03-SSH-UTO-0301 – Esme Fuller-Thomson, “Factors that Facilitate Canadian Women's Use of Preventive Health Care Services: An application of Andersen's Behavioural Framework”, NPHS. This project is in process and has no current output. Data has been vetted, drafting of articles are underway.
Contract expiry date: October 31, 2007
NO FURTHER UPDATE AT APRIL 30, 2006