CRICH Research Flash
Centre for Research on Inner City Health - Keenan Research Centre
Bi-monthly highlights of recent CRICH publications, including key findings and implications for health policy and practice. To subscribe, please contact Emily Holton at holtone@smh.ca.
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CRICH Research Flash - May/June 2010
- A new approach to supporting Toronto’s most vulnerable homeless people - with encouraging results.
- Immigrants of South Asian and African descent are extremely vulnerable to diabetes.
- There are serious gaps in Canada’s Aboriginal health data.
- New CRICH tool: a web site that everyone can use to get detailed health information on every Toronto community.
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CRICH Research Flash - March/April 2010
- We've developed a framework that can be used to help stakeholders better understand HIV-related disability.
- Why randomized controlled trials aren’t appropriate for evaluating complex health interventions.
- Recommendations for conducting research on neighbourhoods and health.
- Unaddressed cognitive deficits could be keeping many homeless people from getting and staying housed.
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CRICH Research Flash - January/February 2010
- We’ve found significant inequities in Ontario’s mental health care system.
- Men and women experience problem gambling differently; gender-specific treatment may be appropriate.
- Homeless and marginally-housed people nationwide are dying earlier than even the poorest Canadians.
- The most successful programs for homeless people with concurrent disorders promote the client’s sense of autonomy.
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CRICH Research Flash - Summer/Fall 2009
- Women in low-income neighbourhoods are at greater risk of high blood pressure
- A parent’s stress can affect her child’s risk for asthma
- The “healthy immigrant effect” is evident in homeless populations
- Striking health disparities exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children
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