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Professor Bruce Newbold Healthy Hamilton?
Checking up on the City’s Health Despite the importance of our health system, the local physical
and social environment within which people live and work is
an equally important component of our health. That is, such
things as housing, air quality, income, social support and interaction,
and attitudes to the local area, are influential in the distribution
of health. These “determinants of health” have been explored at the national and international levels, but they are likely to vary across space and between places, meaning that less is known about how they influence health at the local level. Professor Newbold will present an overview of on-going research he and his colleagues are engaged in at McMaster that seeks to understand how health is altered by the physical and social environments in Hamilton. The lecture will discuss how health is constructed locally and in particular with respect to the role of neighbourhoods. He will also talk about how health resources may be inequitably distributed across the city, particularly for the immigrant population, and the implications for health.
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