Multimorbidity, defined as the co-existence of two or more long-term conditions, is a major global public health challenge with significant impacts for health and social care systems. There is a substantial body of work identifying different individual- and household-level determinants of multimorbidity, yet the role of place-based characteristics in affecting multimorbidity remains limited....
Introduction: Hot spot analysis or spatial cluster analysis is a frequently used approach in identifying where infectious disease outbreaks have occurred in the past or are currently occurring. This became increasingly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, when COVID-19 maps were widely used to convey where COVID-19 infections or death were most prevalent. These clusters may change...
Introduction
In early March 2022, Shanghai witnessed a rapid outbreak of the SARSCoV-2b virus, a variant of Omicron, which ultimately led to a lockdown that lasted for three months. In response, Shanghai government implemented various epidemic control policies.We noted significant regional disparities in the number of days communities were "listed" due to resident infections. Our research...
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations such as older adults; no population group was more vulnerable than seniors in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the location of the fastest-growing senior adult population in the world and one of the most vulnerable according to the UN Research Roadmap. This research investigated the health and...
Background The Chief Medical Officer for England’s 2021 report showed ecological correlations between small areas in England that were coastal and worse population health outcomes. However, there is scant research on how coastal areas impact individual health.
Methods We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years)...
Despite evidence on the importance of sport participation for overall physical, cognitive, and psychological health, sport attrition among teenage girls in Canada is three-times higher than that among teenage boys. A recent study on sport participation for adolescent girls in the Greater Toronto Area identified interactive effects of individual, environmental, and task constraints that...
