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"Contextualizing Context": Reconciling Environmental Exposures, Social Networks, and Location Preferences in Health Research

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A GPS-Based Methodology to Analyze Environment-Health Associations at the Trip Level: Case-Crossover Analyses of Built Environments and Walking.

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A child's view: social and physical environmental features differentially predict parent and child perceived neighborhood safety

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A novel assessment of adolescent mobility: a pilot study.

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A pan-Canadian measure of active living environments using open data

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

A reliability assessment of a direct-observation park evaluation tool: the parks, activity and recreation among kids (PARK) tool

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

A typology of neighborhoods and blood pressure in the RECORD Cohort Study

scientific article published on July 2012

Accounting for the daily locations visited in the study of the built environment correlates of recreational walking (the RECORD Cohort Study).

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Active transportation and public transportation use to achieve physical activity recommendations? A combined GPS, accelerometer, and mobility survey study.

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Activity spaces in place and health research: Novel exposure measures, data collection tools, and designs

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

An evaluation of transport mode shift policies on transport-related physical activity through simulations based on random forests

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An interactive mapping tool to assess individual mobility patterns in neighborhood studies

scientific article published in October 2012

Application of a Global Environmental Equity Index in Montreal: Diagnostic and Further Implications

Are We Happy in Densely Populated Environments? Assessing the Impacts of Density on Subjective Well-Being, Quality of Life, and Perceived Health in Montreal, Canada

Assessing patterns of spatial behavior in health studies: their socio-demographic determinants and associations with transportation modes (the RECORD Cohort Study).

scientific article published on 11 July 2014

Association between activity space exposure to food establishments and individual risk of overweight.

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Association of fast-food restaurant and fruit and vegetable store densities with cardiovascular mortality in a metropolitan population

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Associations Between Children’s Diets and Features of Their Residential and School Neighbourhood Food Environments

article by Andraea Van Hulst et al published 1 November 2012 in Canadian Journal of Public Health

Associations between HIV-related injection behaviour and distance to and patterns of utilisation of syringe-supply programmes

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Associations between Light Rail Transit and physical activity: a systematic review

Associations between children's diets and features of their residential and school neighbourhood food environments

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Associations between perceived proximity to neighborhood resources, disability, and social participation among community-dwelling older adults: results from the VoisiNuAge study

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Associations between residential food environment and dietary patterns in urban-dwelling older adults: results from the VoisiNuAge study

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Associations of supermarket characteristics with weight status and body fat: a multilevel analysis of individuals within supermarkets (RECORD study).

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Availability of body art facilities and body art piercing do not predict hepatitis C acquisition among injection drug users in Montreal, Canada: Results from a cohort study.

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Between exposure, access and use: Reconsidering foodscape influences on dietary behaviours

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Causally speaking: Challenges in measuring gentrification for population health research in the United States and Canada

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Challenges in using wearable GPS devices in low-income older adults: Can map-based interviews help with assessments of mobility?

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Cohort Profile: The Interdisciplinary Study of Inequalities in Smoking (ISIS).

scientific article published on 6 May 2015

Cohort profile: residential and non-residential environments, individual activity spaces and cardiovascular risk factors and diseases--the RECORD Cohort Study.

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Combining sensor tracking with a GPS-based mobility survey to better measure physical activity in trips: public transport generates walking

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Comments on Melis et al. The Effects of the Urban Built Environment on Mental Health: A Cohort Study in a Large Northern Italian City. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 2015, 12, 14898-14915

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Comparison of two indices of availability of fruits/vegetable and fast food outlets

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Comprehensive determinants of health service utilisation for mental health reasons in a Canadian catchment area

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Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: accounting for activity space related to daily mobility.

scientific article published on 04 February 2013

Considering daily mobility for a more comprehensive understanding of contextual effects on social inequalities in health: a conceptual proposal

scientific article published on 5 August 2014

Contexts of sedentary time and physical activity among ageing workers and recent retirees: cross-sectional GPS and accelerometer study

scientific article published on 18 May 2021

Converting Raw Accelerometer Data to Activity Counts Using Open-Source Code: Implementing a MATLAB Code in Python and R, and Comparing the Results to ActiLife

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Correction to: Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Demographic and urban form correlates of healthful and unhealthful food availability in Montréal, Canada.

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Detecting activity locations from raw GPS data: a novel kernel-based algorithm

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Differences in associations between active transportation and built environmental exposures when expressed using different components of individual activity spaces

scientific article published on 6 April 2015

Disparities in Access to Healthy Diets: How Food Security and Food Shopping Behaviors Relate to Fruit and Vegetable Intake

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Does the effect of walkable built environments vary by neighborhood socioeconomic status?

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Erratum to: Understanding the role of contrasting urban contexts in healthy aging: an international cohort study using wearable sensor devices (the CURHA study protocol).

scientific article published on 5 July 2016

Examining the spatial congruence between data obtained with a novel activity location questionnaire, continuous GPS tracking, and prompted recall surveys

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Field validation of listings of food stores and commercial physical activity establishments from secondary data

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Field validation of secondary data sources: a novel measure of representativity applied to a Canadian food outlet database

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Foot-based microscale audit of light rail network in Montreal Canada

Framing the biosocial pathways underlying associations between place and cardiometabolic disease

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Fruit and Vegetable Purchases in Farmer's Market Stands: Analysing Survey and Sales Data

scientific article published on 21 December 2019

GPS tracking in neighborhood and health studies: a step forward for environmental exposure assessment, a step backward for causal inference?

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Geographic variability in the association between socioeconomic status and BMI in the USA and Canada

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Health inequalities and place: a theoretical conception of neighbourhood

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INTERACT: A comprehensive approach to assess urban form interventions through natural experiments

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Identifying risk profiles for childhood obesity using recursive partitioning based on individual, familial, and neighborhood environment factors

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If we build it, who will come? The case for attention to equity in healthy community design

scientific article published on 28 August 2018

Impact evaluation of a public bicycle share program on cycling: a case example of BIXI in Montreal, Quebec

scientific article published on 17 January 2013

Impacts of commute mode on body mass index: A longitudinal analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Individual- and area-level disparities in access to the road network, subway system and a public bicycle share program on the Island of Montreal, Canada

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Integrating activity spaces in health research: Comparing the VERITAS activity space questionnaire with 7-day GPS tracking and prompted recall

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Interaction between body weight status and walking speed in steps monitoring by GT3X accelerometer

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Interactive effects of reward sensitivity and residential fast-food restaurant exposure on fast-food consumption

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Internal consistency, concurrent validity, and discriminant validity of a measure of public support for policies for active living in transportation (PAL-T) in a population-based sample of adults

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Is Smoking Cessation in Young Adults Associated With Tobacco Retailer Availability in Their Activity Space?

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Is accessibility in the eye of the beholder? Social inequalities in spatial accessibility to health-related resources in Montréal, Canada

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Is educational inequality protective?

scientific article published on 30 November 2006

Is gentrification all bad? Positive association between gentrification and individual's perceived neighborhood collective efficacy in Montreal, Canada

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Living in a well-serviced urban area is associated with maintenance of frequent walking among seniors in the VoisiNuAge study.

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Local context influence, activity space, and foodscape exposure in two canadian metropolitan settings: is daily mobility exposure associated with overweight?

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Longitudinal associations between walking frequency and depressive symptoms in older adults: results from the VoisiNuAge study

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Market-Segmentation Study of Future and Potential Users of the New Réseau Express Métropolitain Light Rail in Montreal, Canada

Measuring children's independent mobility: comparing interactive mapping with destination access and licence to roam

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Modelling the variation of land surface temperature as determinant of risk of heat-related health events

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Moving beyond the residential neighborhood to explore social inequalities in exposure to area-level disadvantage: Results from the Interdisciplinary Study on Inequalities in Smoking

scientific article published on 3 March 2014

Neighborhood built and social environment characteristics: a multilevel analysis of associations with obesity among children and their parents

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Neighborhood characteristics and depressive mood among older adults: an integrative review.

scientific article published on 03 February 2012

Neighborhood deprivation and maternal psychological distress during pregnancy: a multilevel analysis.

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Neighborhood effects on health: correcting bias from neighborhood effects on participation

scientific article published in January 2011

Neighborhood resources and social participation among older adults: results from the VoisiNuage study.

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Neighbourhood characteristics and 10-year risk of depression in Canadian adults with and without a chronic illness.

scientific article published on 21 November 2014

Neighbourhood environmental correlates of perceived park proximity in Montreal.

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Neighbourhood walkability and home neighbourhood-based physical activity: an observational study of adults with type 2 diabetes

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Operationalising the 20-minute neighbourhood

scientific article published on 12 February 2022

Place matters: A longitudinal analysis measuring the association between neighbourhood walkability and walking by age group and population center size in Canada.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Prevalence of psychological distress and mental disorders, and use of mental health services in the epidemiological catchment area of Montreal South-West

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Promoting access to fresh fruits and vegetables through a local market intervention at a subway station

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Quantifying the foodscape: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the validity of commercially available business data

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Re-creating daily mobility histories for health research from raw GPS tracks: Validation of a kernel-based algorithm using real-life data

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Reassessing Urban Health Interventions: Back to the Future with Google Street View Time Machine

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Reassessing Urban Health Interventions: Back to the Future with Google Street View Time Machine

scholarly article by Ronaldo L. Cândido et al published November 2018 in American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Recruiting Participants for Population Health Intervention Research: Effectiveness and Costs of Recruitment Methods for a Cohort Study

scientific article published on 12 November 2021

Relations between Spatial Distribution, Social Affiliations and Dominance Hierarchy in a Semi-Free Mandrill Population.

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Reliability of an instrument for direct observation of urban neighbourhoods

Residential buffer, perceived neighborhood, and individual activity space: New refinements in the definition of exposure areas - The RECORD Cohort Study

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Residential greenness and risk of prostate cancer: A case-control study in Montreal, Canada

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Residential proximity to gasoline service stations and preterm birth.

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Sense of mastery and metabolic risk: moderating role of the local fast-food environment

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Should we use absolute or relative measures when assessing foodscape exposure in relation to fruit and vegetable intake? Evidence from a wide-scale Canadian study

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Social capital and core network ties: a validation study of individual-level social capital measures and their association with extra- and intra-neighborhood ties, and self-rated health

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Social disparities in children's exposure to secondhand smoke in privately owned vehicles

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

Social inequalities in food exposure around schools in an urban area.

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Spatial Access by Public Transport and Likelihood of Healthcare Consultations at Hospitals

Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology Reporting Standards (ISLE-ReSt) statement

scientific article published on 4 December 2019

Spatial access to sport facilities from the multiple places visited and sport practice: Assessing and correcting biases related to selective daily mobility

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Spatial modeling of daily concentrations of ground-level ozone in Montreal, Canada: A comparison of geostatistical approaches

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Successes and failures of built environment interventions: Using concept mapping to assess stakeholder perspectives in four Canadian cities

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

The "residential" effect fallacy in neighborhood and health studies: formal definition, empirical identification, and correction

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The Local Food Environment and Fruit and Vegetable Intake: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach in the ORiEL Study

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

The Neighbourhood Built Environment and Trajectories of Depression Symptom Episodes in Adults: A Latent Class Growth Analysis.

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

The added value of accounting for activity space when examining the association between tobacco retailer availability and smoking among young adults

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The eating assessment table-an evidence-based nutrition tool for clinicians: background, description, future of tool.

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The environmental correlates of overall and neighborhood based recreational walking (a cross-sectional analysis of the RECORD Study).

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

The food environment and diet quality of urban-dwelling older women and men: Assessing the moderating role of diet knowledge.

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The impact of implementing a public bicycle share program on the likelihood of collisions and near misses in Montreal, Canada

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The potential modal shift and health benefits of implementing a public bicycle share program in Montreal, Canada

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

The role of living context in prescription opioid injection and the associated risk of hepatitis C infection.

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The role of social participation and walking in depression among older adults: results from the VoisiNuAge study

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The role of the residential neighborhood in linking youths' family poverty trajectory to decreased feelings of safety at school

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Understanding the role of contrasting urban contexts in healthy aging: an international cohort study using wearable sensor devices (the CURHA study protocol).

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Use of a new public bicycle share program in Montreal, Canada

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Using experienced activity spaces to measure foodscape exposure.

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Walk Score, Transportation Mode Choice, and Walking Among French Adults: A GPS, Accelerometer, and Mobility Survey Study.

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

What is the importance of postal codes for health research? Re: (Fuller and Shareck) Canada Post community mailboxes: implications for health research.

scientific article published on 28 November 2014

Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Why socially deprived populations have a faster resting heart rate: impact of behaviour, life course anthropometry, and biology--the RECORD Cohort Study

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