Mylène Riva
Biographic Data
| ID | 359628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mylène Riva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mylène |
| FAMILY NAME | Riva |
| SIGNATURE | RIVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7979-4445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond four walls and a roof
Control and care in homeless service provision
Homeless service providers rely on practices of control with the intention of leading people experiencing homelessness into housing. These practices often reflect larger government rationalities of management and control of homelessness. Coupling these practices with the professionalization of homelessness resources, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) are software used to gather data on service users to support case management and to …
Social well-being of Canadian adolescents
Adolescent social well-being assessed by community belonging and life satisfaction. • Integrating health and census data allows for national socioecological examination. • Younger age, better health, larger households linked to higher social well-being. • Rural, small-town, youth-dense areas linked to higher social well-being. • Places where adolescents live matter even in the age of online socializing. In an era of widespread online socializing,…
Bed bug infestations
Findings reinforce the significant social inequalities in exposure to bed bugs and contribute to growing evidence that bed bug exposure is a risk factor for psychological symptoms. Coordinated, intersectoral actions that are attentive to social justice issues are needed to monitor and control bed bug infestations
Heating up, cooling off
We explored the experiences of summer indoor overheating and summer cooling behaviours in Aotearoa New Zealand using a postal survey. Limited research has engaged with New Zealander's cooling behaviours due to a temperate climate. However, poor thermal dwelling quality and climate warming mean that summer indoor overheating is possibly an emerging problem. The survey was carried out between December 2021 and February 2022, with 641 respondents in…
Response to
Measuring the use of energy poverty coping strategies and the heat‐or‐eat trade‐off in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
In Bridgewater, a small town in Nova Scotia, around 40% of households face energy poverty. Little research has examined energy poverty in Canada and how it affects the well‐being of households. The aim of this study was to identify the ways households cope with energy poverty across socio‐economic characteristics, paying particular attention to the heat‐or‐eat trade‐off. Data were collected using a community‐based survey on housing, energy use an…
Constant crisis management
Energy poverty and well-being at the local level
Housing for care, connection, and health equity
Adapting Homelessness Interventions for People Who Use Drugs or Alcohol in Montreal, Quebec
Background: Under a housing affordability crisis, Montreal, Canada, is host to a growing homeless population. While people who use drugs or alcohol make up a large part of this group, homeless resources in the city continue to exclude them through sobriety rules or by not adapting programming to their specific needs. This systematic exclusion, and the conditions of these resources, can often be retraumatizing for individuals seeking help. Applyin…
Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model
While clinical practitioners have long recognized the importance of trauma-informed models of care, geographies of care scholars have been slow to engage with and address trauma in its methodologies for better understanding environments that support, or hinder, care for people. Marrying the conceptual contributions of geographies of care, trauma geographies, and geographies of addiction, this paper aims to advance the inquiry of trauma-informed s…
Association between food security status and dietary patterns in a cohort of first-time food-aid users
The Qanuilirpitaa? 2017 Nunavik Health Survey
Information from this survey is being used to update health services and programs in the region and for the development of health policies and public health interventions to tackle key health-related issues faced by Nunavimmiut. Drawing lessons from challenges and successes encountered in Qanuilirpitaa? 2017, this survey paved the way to the upcoming Inuit-led Qanuippitaa? National Inuit Health Survey to be conducted every 5 years throughout Inui…
Wellbeing, space and society
This special issue presents research exploring various aspects of wellbeing in relation to diverse dimensions and experiences of ‘home spaces’. These papers draw attention to the significance for wellbeing of ‘home spaces’ conceptualised as both material and psychosocial environments as they relate to the immediate home environment of individuals and their households, as well as to their wider community. Several of the papers discuss home spaces …
The Pathways study
Results show that newly registered users of food donation programs often have low-income and severe food insecurity, with major differences across geographical locations. The Pathways study is the first study designed to follow, over a 2-year period, a cohort of newly registered users of food donation programs and to quantify their trajectories of service use. Findings from the Pathways study might help adapt the community response to the strateg…
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Sociocultural determinants of alcohol and cannabis use and misuse among Nunavimmiut
Key determinants of substance use relevant to Inuit culture were identified. Results are in line with our Inuit partners' experience in their communities and are coherent with current land-based interventions implemented in Nunavik. A thorough understanding of substance use contexts and related stressors should guide the content and implementation of substance use programs in Nunavik
Profiles of childhood adversities in Inuit from Nunavik
Childhood adversities among Nunavimmiut do not occur in isolation and experiencing multiple forms of childhood adversities predicts lower socioeconomic status, support, and community involvement in adulthood. Implications for the planning of health and community services in Nunavik are discussed
Engaging with community organizations to recruit and retain vulnerable adults
Researchers must overcome multiple barriers in recruiting and retaining research participants living in conditions of vulnerability.•A comprehensive recruitment strategy that combines various elements tailored to vulnerable populations is required.•Most studies describing recruitment and retention of participants from vulnerable populations pertain to clinical settings.•This study describes strategies and challenges in recruiting participants thr…
We’re Home Now”
This study explores the ways in which a rehousing intervention shapes the mental well-being of Inuit adults living in Nunavut, Canada, where the prevalence of core housing need is four times the national average. More specifically, it compares the housing experiences of participants who were rehoused in a newly built public housing unit, to the experiences of participants on the public housing waitlist. The study was developed in collaboration wi…
Does living near hospital obscure the association between active living environments and hospitalization
Epistemic inclusion in the Qanuilirpitaa? Nunavik Inuit health survey
The development of the culturally grounded health models and determinants is an exercise of epistemic inclusivity through which researchers and Indigenous communities may form new and equitable paths of knowledge creation
Housing as a determinant of Inuit mental health
Culturally and contextually adaptive indicators of organizational success
This data-driven framework suggests that the measures of success that are frequently used by funding agencies (e.g., number of people reached, number of activities) may not fully represent the potential of local services in a given community. Indeed, services may be creating job opportunities for Inuit, instilling pride, offering cultural opportunities, and increasing capital (human, economic, health) within the community, all of which are equall…
Toward the next generation of research into small area effects on health
To map out area effects on health research, this study had the following aims: (1) to inventory multilevel investigations of area effects on self rated health, cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, and mortality among adults; (2) to describe and critically discuss methodological approaches employed and results observed; and (3) to formulate selected recommendations for advancing the study of area effects on health. Overall, 86 studies were in…
Residential mobility within England and urban-rural inequalities in mortality
This study is situated within the international literature on geographic health inequalities between urban and rural areas. Using data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS LS), this paper assesses the role of residential mobility within England between 1981 and 2001 in explaining geographic inequalities in all-cause mortality between urban and rural Local Authority Districts at the end of the period (deaths occurring be…
Health geographies I
This paper is the first of two linked progress reports on the application of ideas from complexity theory to health geography. In this paper we focus especially on research which seeks to explain variations in human health from a geographical perspective. We mainly discuss selected studies of geographies of human health which illustrate how ideas from complexity theory are applied empirically. In order to interpret more effectively the dynamic an…
Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas
Studies of inequalities in health between rural and urban settings have produced mixed and sometimes conflicting results, depending on the national setting of the study, the level of geographic detail used to define rural areas and the health indicators studied. By focusing on morbidity data from a national sample of individuals, this study aims to examine the extent of inequalities in health between urban and rural areas, as well as inequalities…
Disentangling the relative influence of built and socioeconomic environments on walking
Health geographies II
In this second of two progress reports on geographies of health, we continue a discussion framed from the perspective of complexity theory to consider research which is more particularly focused on health care and health policy. Using selected examples, we discuss how health care and policy have been influenced by ideas from complexity theory and consider the scope for more integrated health geography in future research. These studies illustrate …
Household crowding is associated with higher allostatic load among the Inuit
BACKGROUND: Household crowding is an important problem in some aboriginal communities that is reaching particularly high levels among the circumpolar Inuit. Living in overcrowded conditions may endanger health via stress pathophysiology. This study examines whether higher household crowding is associated with stress-related physiological dysregulations among the Inuit. METHODS: Cross-sectional data on 822 Inuit adults were taken from the 2004 Qan…
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Neighbourhoods
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Energy poverty in Canada
Coalfield health effects
Relocating to a new or pre-existing social housing unit
Epistemic inclusion in the Qanuilirpitaa? Nunavik Inuit health survey
The development of the culturally grounded health models and determinants is an exercise of epistemic inclusivity through which researchers and Indigenous communities may form new and equitable paths of knowledge creation
Overcrowding and sense of home in the Canadian Arctic
This study examines the relationship between living in overcrowded conditions and sense of home among 289 Inuit, the Indigenous population living in the Canadian Arctic. This study was conducted in Nunavut and Nunavik, two of the four Inuit regions in Canada, where the prevalence of overcrowding is six times the national average. Sense of home was derived from the conceptual notion of ontological security, where home is defined as a symbolic plac…
Covid-19 and pandemic planning in the context of rural and remote homelessness
The Changing Spatial Distribution of Montreal Seniors at the Neighbourhood Level
Numerous studies in the 1970s and 1980s examined the changing residential geography of seniors in North American metropolises but recent studies are scarce. The goal of this paper is to identify and model neighbourhood ageing trajectories in Montreal over six consecutive census years (1981–2006). To identify these trajectories, we use a statistical method, Latent Class Growth Modelling, applied to location quotients calculated at the census tract…
Introduction
Household Crowding and Food Insecurity Among Inuit Families With School-Aged Children in the Canadian Arctic
Objectives. We examined the relation of household crowding to food insecurity among Inuit families with school-aged children in Arctic Quebec. Methods. We analyzed data collected between October 2005 and February 2010 from 292 primary caregiver–child dyads from 14 Inuit communities. We collected information about household conditions, food security, and family socioeconomic characteristics by interviews. We used logistic regression models to exam…
Population Health across Space and Time
There is a need in health research to identify whether inequalities are increasing or improving between different geographical areas. Both cross‐sectional time‐series and longitudinal/cohort studies contribute to our knowledge, with the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (LS) for England and Wales being a major resource. However, any research into geographical change over time can be hampered by boundary change or when the geograph…
The Geography of Overweight in Quebec
Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model
While clinical practitioners have long recognized the importance of trauma-informed models of care, geographies of care scholars have been slow to engage with and address trauma in its methodologies for better understanding environments that support, or hinder, care for people. Marrying the conceptual contributions of geographies of care, trauma geographies, and geographies of addiction, this paper aims to advance the inquiry of trauma-informed s…
Social housing construction and improvements in housing outcomes for Inuit in Northern Canada
One-third of Inuit households in the Canadian Arctic are in core housing need-three times the national average. In 2014–2015, over 400 social housing units were constructed in Nunavik and Nunavut, two of the four Inuit land claims regions in Canada. This article examines whether rehousing, following this large-scale construction commitment, is associated with significant improvements in housing outcomes. People on the waiting list for social hous…
Aging, Health and Place from the Perspective of Elders in an Inuit Community
Measuring the use of energy poverty coping strategies and the heat‐or‐eat trade‐off in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
In Bridgewater, a small town in Nova Scotia, around 40% of households face energy poverty. Little research has examined energy poverty in Canada and how it affects the well‐being of households. The aim of this study was to identify the ways households cope with energy poverty across socio‐economic characteristics, paying particular attention to the heat‐or‐eat trade‐off. Data were collected using a community‐based survey on housing, energy use an…
Energy poverty and well-being at the local level
Toward the next generation of research into small area effects on health
To map out area effects on health research, this study had the following aims: (1) to inventory multilevel investigations of area effects on self rated health, cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, and mortality among adults; (2) to describe and critically discuss methodological approaches employed and results observed; and (3) to formulate selected recommendations for advancing the study of area effects on health. Overall, 86 studies were in…
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Neighbourhoods
Comparing alternative approaches to measuring the geographical accessibility of urban health services
BACKGROUND: Over the past two decades, geographical accessibility of urban resources for population living in residential areas has received an increased focus in urban health studies. Operationalising and computing geographical accessibility measures depend on a set of four parameters, namely definition of residential areas, a method of aggregation, a measure of accessibility, and a type of distance. Yet, the choice of these parameters may poten…
Health geographies II
In this second of two progress reports on geographies of health, we continue a discussion framed from the perspective of complexity theory to consider research which is more particularly focused on health care and health policy. Using selected examples, we discuss how health care and policy have been influenced by ideas from complexity theory and consider the scope for more integrated health geography in future research. These studies illustrate …
Health geographies I
This paper is the first of two linked progress reports on the application of ideas from complexity theory to health geography. In this paper we focus especially on research which seeks to explain variations in human health from a geographical perspective. We mainly discuss selected studies of geographies of human health which illustrate how ideas from complexity theory are applied empirically. In order to interpret more effectively the dynamic an…
The multiple scales of area effects on health
In area effects on health research, the influence of area characteristics on health is conceptualised and measured in multiple ways. Each conceptualisation, and its empirical application, is therefore likely to provide a unique identification and understanding of the environmental determinants of health and their potential mechanisms of influence, and may convey different information for public health practice and policy. Using as an example the …
Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas
Studies of inequalities in health between rural and urban settings have produced mixed and sometimes conflicting results, depending on the national setting of the study, the level of geographic detail used to define rural areas and the health indicators studied. By focusing on morbidity data from a national sample of individuals, this study aims to examine the extent of inequalities in health between urban and rural areas, as well as inequalities…
Disentangling the relative influence of built and socioeconomic environments on walking
Health in small places
Background There are few data sets that provide detailed population health data at a geographic scale below Government Office Region, and few estimates at a finer scale are validated against real-world data. The focus of the paper is on testing the validity of a methodological approach to create small area population health profiles that may be used in academic and policy research to explore the spatial patterning of health, and repeated as new d…
The Geography of Overweight in Quebec
Les risques pour la santé
Orienté résolument vers les sciences humaines et sociales, ce texte présente les principales interactions entre les deux concepts de risque et de santé.II balaie une large bibliographie pluridisciplinaire et bilingue mais, face à l’ampleur du propos, sa perspective est ici volontairement resserrée autour des questions de spatialité dont les configurations souvent inégalitaires agissent considérablement sur les risques de santé.À l’aide d’exemples…
Coalfield health effects
Residential mobility within England and urban-rural inequalities in mortality
This study is situated within the international literature on geographic health inequalities between urban and rural areas. Using data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS LS), this paper assesses the role of residential mobility within England between 1981 and 2001 in explaining geographic inequalities in all-cause mortality between urban and rural Local Authority Districts at the end of the period (deaths occurring be…
Population Health across Space and Time
There is a need in health research to identify whether inequalities are increasing or improving between different geographical areas. Both cross‐sectional time‐series and longitudinal/cohort studies contribute to our knowledge, with the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (LS) for England and Wales being a major resource. However, any research into geographical change over time can be hampered by boundary change or when the geograph…
Long-term local area employment rates as predictors of individual mortality and morbidity
BACKGROUND: Although long-term trends in local labour market conditions are likely to influence health, few studies have assessed whether this is so. This paper examines whether (1) trends in local employment rates have relevance for mortality and morbidity outcomes in England and (2) trends are stronger predictors of these outcomes than employment rates measured at one point in time. METHODS: Using latent class growth models, local areas were cl…
Contribution de la géographie quantitative à l'étude des inégalités sociales de santé
Champ de recherche à l'interface de la géographie et de l'épidémiologie, l'analyse des effets du milieu sur la santé a été l'objet, au cours des dernières années, d'un intérêt croissant. Les travaux dans ce domaine ont pour objectif l'étude des caractéristiques sociales et matérielles des milieux locaux comme facteurs de risque pour la santé. Dans un premier temps, nous proposons un survol des principales explications quant aux mécanismes par les…
Household crowding is associated with higher allostatic load among the Inuit
BACKGROUND: Household crowding is an important problem in some aboriginal communities that is reaching particularly high levels among the circumpolar Inuit. Living in overcrowded conditions may endanger health via stress pathophysiology. This study examines whether higher household crowding is associated with stress-related physiological dysregulations among the Inuit. METHODS: Cross-sectional data on 822 Inuit adults were taken from the 2004 Qan…
Our Living Ecosystem
Household Crowding and Food Insecurity Among Inuit Families With School-Aged Children in the Canadian Arctic
Objectives. We examined the relation of household crowding to food insecurity among Inuit families with school-aged children in Arctic Quebec. Methods. We analyzed data collected between October 2005 and February 2010 from 292 primary caregiver–child dyads from 14 Inuit communities. We collected information about household conditions, food security, and family socioeconomic characteristics by interviews. We used logistic regression models to exam…
The Changing Spatial Distribution of Montreal Seniors at the Neighbourhood Level
Numerous studies in the 1970s and 1980s examined the changing residential geography of seniors in North American metropolises but recent studies are scarce. The goal of this paper is to identify and model neighbourhood ageing trajectories in Montreal over six consecutive census years (1981–2006). To identify these trajectories, we use a statistical method, Latent Class Growth Modelling, applied to location quotients calculated at the census tract…
Introduction
Water Vulnerability in Arctic Households
There is an urgent need to understand the contextual factors that influence water vulnerability of households in the Arctic. To evaluate the existing knowledge of Arctic household water vulnerability, this paper presents the results of a narrative review with a systematic search. The review identified 112 documents, including peer-reviewed articles, reviews, book chapters, proceedings papers, and meeting abstracts. The documents were analyzed for…
Relocating to a new or pre-existing social housing unit
Overcrowding and sense of home in the Canadian Arctic
This study examines the relationship between living in overcrowded conditions and sense of home among 289 Inuit, the Indigenous population living in the Canadian Arctic. This study was conducted in Nunavut and Nunavik, two of the four Inuit regions in Canada, where the prevalence of overcrowding is six times the national average. Sense of home was derived from the conceptual notion of ontological security, where home is defined as a symbolic plac…
Aging, Health and Place from the Perspective of Elders in an Inuit Community
Medicine (33 works) · Geography (30 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (23 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Environmental health (21 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (18 works) · Population (18 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (16 works) · Political science (15 works)