Frank Elgar

Understanding the COVID-19 Burden - TVO, September 29, 2021

Dr. Frank Elgar, Professor at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and at the Department of Psychiatry spoke with TVO's The Agenda.

"We quickly learned from the onset of the pandemic that people in lower-income socioeconomic groups were taking on a greater burden, with risk of exposure and the greater incidences of COVID-19 deaths. Frank Elgar, a professor at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Social Inequality in Child Health, has uncovered the reasons why income equality leads to poorer health outcomes."

Classified as: SPGH, IHSP, Frank Elgar, Covid

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Health and medicine

Published on: 1 Oct 2021

Trust and income inequality fueling spread of COVID-19

Trust in public institutions is linked to fewer COVID-19 deaths, but trust and belonging to groups is associated with more deaths, according to a wide-ranging, McGill-led study of 30-day COVID-19 mortality rates in 84 countries. Greater economic inequality is also associated with COVID-19 mortality.

Classified as: covid-19, trust, income inequality, social capital, Frank Elgar

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Published on: 7 Oct 2020

We need to talk about school start times

Classified as: faculty of medicine, sleep, Frank Elgar, IHSP, teenagers, health and lifestyle, school start times, Journal of Sleep Research, Geneviève Gariépy, McGill’s Institute of Health and Social Policy

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News releases

Published on: 23 Jan 2017

Canada: Children at back of the pack among rich nations

A new report released today by UNICEF highlights the inequalities in child well-being in the world’s most affluent nations, including Canada. While progress in reducing child well-being gaps has been modest overall, Canada’s children are at the back of the pack, ranking in the bottom third when measured against other rich nations. (UNICEF)