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The added value of accounting for activity space when examining the association between tobacco retailer availability and smoking among young adults
Shareck, Martine; Kestens, Yan; Vallée, Julie; Datta, Geetanjali; Frohlich, Katherine L. (2016)Background: Despite a declining prevalence in many countries, smoking rates remain consistently high among young adults. Targeting contextual influences on smoking, such as the availability of tobacco retailers, is one promising avenue of intervention. ... -
Considering daily mobility for a more comprehensive understanding of contextual effects on social inequalities in health : a conceptual proposal
Shareck, Martine; Frohlich, Katherine L.; Kestens, Yan (2014)Despite growing interest in integrating people’s daily mobility into contextual studies of social inequalities in health, the links between daily mobility and health inequalities remain inadequately conceptualized. This conceptual proposal anchors ... -
Do social characteristics influence smoking uptake and cessation during young adulthood?
Steinmetz-Wood, Madeleine; Gagné, Thierry; Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre; Frohlich, Katherine L. (2017-10-29)Objectives This study uses a Bourdieusian approach to assess young adults’ resources and examines their association with smoking initiation and cessation. Methods Data were drawn from 1450 young adults participating in the Interdisciplinary ... -
How important are paper copies of questionnaires? Testing invitations modes when studying social inequalities in smoking among young adults
Gagné, Thierry; Agouri, Rowena; Cantinotti, Michael; Boubaker, Anis; Frohlich, Katherine L. (2014-02) -
Improving the measurement of neighbourhood characteristics through systematic observation: Inequalities in smoking as a case study
Shareck, Martine; Dassa, Clément; Frohlich, Katherine L. (2012-05)Systematic observation is increasingly used as a method to measure neighbourhood characteristics thought to influence health inequalities. This article reports on the theory-driven development of a new observation tool composed of ... -
Moving beyond the residential neighbourhood to explore social inequalities in exposure to area-level disadvantage: Results from the Interdisciplinary Study on Inequalities in Smoking
Shareck, Martine; Kestens, Yan; Frohlich, Katherine L. (2014-05)The focus, in place and health research, on a single, residential, context overlooks the fact that individuals are mobile and experience other settings in the course of their daily activities. Socioeconomic characteristics are associated with activity ... -
Social inequalities in health information seeking among young adults in Montreal
Gagné, Thierry; Ghenadenik, Adrian; Abel, Thomas; Frohlich, Katherine L. (2016-11-25)Over their lifecourse, young adults develop different skills and preferences in relationship to the information sources they seek when having questions about health. Health information seeking behaviour (HISB) includes multiple, unequally accessed ...