Over one in four women (or 27 per cent) experience intimate partner violence before the age of 50, according to a worldwide analysis led by researchers from McGill University and the World Health Organization. The largest of its kind, the analysis covers 366 studies involving more than 2 million women in 161 countries.

Classified as: domestic violence, intimate partner violence, global, international, national, regional, women, girls, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
Published on: 24 Mar 2022

The IHSP's Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry published the following book:

The Disabled Contract
Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality

by Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry
published by Cambridge University Press as part of their Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
ISBN: 9781107152854
March 2021

Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, disability rights, Law and Disability, Social Determinants of Health, School of Population and Global Health
Published on: 24 Mar 2021

The IHSP's Christopher Barrington-Leigh has co-authored the following article:

Miñarro S, Reyes-García V, Aswani S, Selim S, Barrington-Leigh CP, Galbraith ED

Happy without money: Minimally monetized societies can exhibit high subjective well-being

PLoS ONE. 2021; 16(1): e0244569.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244569
Published January 13th, 2021

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Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, wellbeing, Social Determinants of Health
Published on: 29 Jan 2021

The IHSP's Alissa Koski and her colleague Shelley Clark have been receiving some media attention from their recent article:

Child Marriage in Canada

Koski A and Clark S
Population and Development Review (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12369
Published January 8th, 2021

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Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, Social Determinants of Health, Child Health, children, child marriage
Published on: 29 Jan 2021

The IHSP's Mylène Riva co-authored the following article:

Baron M, Riva M, Fletcher C, et al.

Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of a Holistic Indicator of Health for Older Inuit: Results of a Sequential Mixed-Methods Project

Social Indicators Research (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02592-5
Published January 4th, 2021

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Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, Social Determinants of Health, Indigenous Heath
Published on: 28 Jan 2021

The IHSP's Mylène Riva co-authored the following article:

Mah MM, Sanmartin C, Riva M, Dasgupta K, Ross N.

Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, cardiometabolic disease, Social Determinants of Health
Published on: 28 Jan 2021

The IHSP's Arijit Nandi co-authored an article in Epidemiology:

Batomen B, Moore L, Strumpf E, Nandi A

Addressing competing risks when assessing the impact of health services interventions on hospital length of stay

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
November 23, 2020 - Volume Published Ahead of Print
DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000001307. PMID: 33284168.

Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Published on: 14 Dec 2020

The IHSP's Jill Baumgartner co-authored an article in Chemosphere:

Santa-Rios A, Barst BD, Tejeda L, et al.

Dried blood spots to characterize mercury speciation and exposure in a Colombian artisanal and small-scale gold mining community

Chemosphere 2020, 129001, ISSN 0045-6535
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129001
available online November 19, 2020

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Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, mercury, gold mining, EBOH
Published on: 1 Dec 2020

There is a new book out in November by Sasha Mullally and the IHSP's David Wright, published by McGill Queen's University Press (ISBN 9780228003717).

Overview

Classified as: History of Medicine, medicare
Published on: 11 Nov 2020

Thérèse Yéro Adamou, Mylène Riva, Gina Muckle, Elhadji Anassour Laouan Sidi, Mélanie Lemire, Pierre Ayotte

Blood mercury and plasma polychlorinated biphenyls concentrations in pregnant Inuit women from Nunavik: Temporal trends, 1992–2017

Sci Total Environ. 2020 Nov 15;743:140495.
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140495.

Abstract

Classified as: Canadian Arctic, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, multilevel modeling, biomonitoring
Published on: 10 Nov 2020

Dea S, Weinstock D.

Harm Reduction: A Research Agenda

Health Care Anal. 2020 Nov 3;1-3.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-020-00418-6

Excerpt

Classified as: Harm Reduction
Published on: 9 Nov 2020

Arijit Nandi co-authored an article in Environmental Research:

Richardson RA, Harper S, Weichenthal S, et al.

Extremes in water availability and suicide: Evidence from a nationally representative sample of rural Indian adults

Environmental Research. 2020 Nov;190:109969.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109969.

Abstract

Published on: 9 Nov 2020

Batomen B, Moore L, Strumpf E, Champion H, Nandi A

Impact of trauma centre accreditation on mortality and complications in a Canadian trauma system: an interrupted time series analysis

BMJ Quality & Safety Published Online First: 30 October 2020.
doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2020-011271

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Published on: 3 Nov 2020

Join our Program and learn how to design policy solutions aimed at benefitting population health and welfare.

Weekly seminars centred on themes related to health policy and social welfare.

$2000 award upon program completion.

For more information about the Institute for Health and Social Policy 2021 Winter Internship projects or to apply, please visit our website. The deadline to apply is November 30th at 11:59.

Classified as: interns
Published on: 3 Nov 2020

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