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James R. Dunn
Researcher at McMaster University
Publications - 131
Citations - 6911
James R. Dunn is an academic researcher from McMaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Population. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 122 publications receiving 6248 citations. Previous affiliations of James R. Dunn include St. Michael's Hospital & International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
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Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics.
Nancy A. Ross,Michael Wolfson,James R. Dunn,Jean-Marie Berthelot,George A. Kaplan,John Lynch +5 more
TL;DR: Canada seems to counter the increasingly noted association at the societal level between income inequality and mortality, and may indicate that the effects of income inequality on health are not automatic and may be blunted by the different ways in which social and economic resources are distributed.
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Social determinants of health in Canada's immigrant population: results from the National Population Health Survey.
James R. Dunn,Isabel Dyck +1 more
TL;DR: The results of the logistic regression models calculated for immigrants and non-immigrants on four outcome variables in this study suggest that socio-economic factors are more important for immigrants than non-Immigrants, although in ways that defy a simple explanation.
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Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study
TL;DR: Reducing the excessively high rates of premature mortality in this population would require interventions to address deaths related to smoking, alcohol, and drugs, and mental disorders and suicide, among other causes.
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Development of the Canadian Marginalization Index: A New Tool for the Study of Inequality
TL;DR: CAN-Marg is a census-based, empirically derived and theoretically informed tool designed to reflect a broader conceptualization of Canadian marginalization, and demonstrated marked stability across time and geographic area.
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Urban neighborhoods, chronic stress, gender and depression.
Flora I. Matheson,Rahim Moineddin,James R. Dunn,James R. Dunn,Maria I. Creatore,Piotr Gozdyra,Richard H. Glazier,Richard H. Glazier,Richard H. Glazier +8 more
TL;DR: The daily stress of living in a neighborhood where residential mobility and material deprivation prevail is associated with depression, and the possibility that women might be more reactive to chronic stressors manifested in higher risk of depression was explored.