Adele Balram

TL;DR: Increased amounts of residential greenness were associated with reduced risks of dying from several common causes of death among urban Canadians, and evidence of inequalities was identified in terms of exposures to greenness and mortality risks.

TL;DR: The role of residential greenness in modifying associations between long-term exposures to PM2.5 and non-accidental and cardiovascular mortality in a national cohort of non-immigrant Canadian adults is investigated and it is found that residents in deprived neighbourhoods with high greenness benefitted by having more attenuated associations between PM2-5 and mortality than those living in deprived areas with less greenness.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that living near blue spaces in urban areas has important benefits to health, but further work is needed to better understand the drivers of this association.

TL;DR: A population-based cohort study to describe associations between household and community-level income and rehospitalizations for types 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus among Canadian women and men found positive, but insignificant associations between community- level poverty and odds of rehospitalization.

TL;DR: Overall, rates and incidence of hospitalizations for ACSCs declined while admissions via ambulance remained largely unchanged, and regional variation decreased over time, with rural areas demonstrating the sharpest declines.