K Bruce Newbold
Biographic Data
| ID | 181949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Bruce Newbold |
| GIVEN NAMES | K Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Newbold |
| SIGNATURE | NEWBOLD K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6441-7863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 106 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 686 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 106 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Residential Mobility in Mid‐ to Late‐Life
Residential mobility, the local relocation of individuals and households, plays an important role in shaping population dynamics, housing markets, service demand, and individual well‐being. This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with residential mobility in mid‐ to later life among Canadians, examining how needs, capabilities/resources, and opportunity structures together influence the decision to relocate. Using longitudinal data…
‘For us, we call it resistance’- conceptualizing resilience and its pathways among Arab Canadians
Study protocol for the randomized controlled trial of Embolden
Background Reduced physical mobility is common in older adults and is associated with adverse outcomes, including functional decline, depression, social isolation, and poor nutritional status. Group-based programs focusing on physical activity and nutrition to support healthier lifestyles have demonstrated benefits, particularly when paired with social engagement activities. This paper presents the protocol for a randomized controlled trial (RCT)…
Employment Integration of Recent Immigrants in a Canadian Mid‐Sized City
With international migration on the rise and the critical need for labour in the global north, governments are increasingly focused on the employment integration of immigrants. Studies demonstrate that where immigrants choose to settle has an impact on how effectively they integrate into employment. In Canada, there has been a shift in immigrant settlement patterns away from large urban centres toward small and mid‐sized cities. Understanding how…
LGBTQA Embodiment and Spatiality in Hamilton, Ontario
For queer individuals, social space can be a matter of negotiating between being seen or unseen by others, and this negotiation underpins one's ability to feel rooted or comfortable, as well as being capable of movement. In this paper, a spatial phenomenological approach to queer embodiment is employed that understands space as an intrinsically socio-material landscape whereby perceptions and embodiments of gender and sexuality facilitate mobilit…
Age and domestic migration effects on workers’ commuting distance
We Need Equitable Exercise Opportunities’
Housing and the resettlement experiences of refugee claimants in Hamilton, Ontario
While existing research has explored refugees’ experiences with resettlement, few have focused specifically on refugee claimants who arrive in their destination country with limited access to settlement services compared to other entry categories. Using qualitative research techniques, this study seeks to explore the experiences of refugee claimants as they search for housing in the medium-sized Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. More specifical…
I thought we would be nourished here’
It's overwhelming at the start’
Independent mobility is an important component of healthy ageing. Public transit may be an affordable way to achieve independent mobility, and yet little is known about older adults’ transition to public transit. This paper addresses this research gap by providing an exploration of older adults’ experiences transitioning to public transit use, and by comparing these experiences to those of older people who have always travelled using transit. Twe…
Racialized Immigrants’ Encounters of Barriers and Facilitators in Seeking Mental Healthcare Services in Ontario, Canada
Air Pollution Health Literacy among Active Commuters in Hamilton, Ontario
The promotion of active transportation (AT), which has been broadly defined as a physical effort performed by the traveller to produce motion, has been a popular strategy to reduce vehicular emissions, improve air quality, and promote physical activity. However, individuals who engage in AT may incur increased exposure to air pollutants and thus potential health impacts. This research sought to determine how active commuters understand the health…
The promise of co-design for improving transit service for older immigrants
Although co-design is extensively used in education, organizational, and healthcare design, it has rarely been used in public transportation decision-making. Typically, transport service users’ involvement is practiced in the form of public hearings or consultations rather than their direct involvement in the design process. Based on the review of relevant literature on co-design and transportation of immigrants and older adults, this study discu…
The influence of disability-related dwelling adaptations on household dwelling satisfaction
Much existing housing stock is inaccessible and does not adequately meet the needs of households with disabled members. As a result, households must often seek dwelling adaptations to improve the accessibility of their existing housing. However, adaptations can be costly, particularly in the context of limited state subsidies. This study examines the extent to which households with disabled members in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, hav…
Pilot randomized controlled trial of Embolden
Introduction: Physical mobility and social participation are essential for maintaining independence and improving quality of life with aging. These are also interrelated, with barriers to mobility leading to social isolation, as well as poor physical and mental health. Most mobility-enhancing interventions in older adults have been designed by researchers without public input and delivered in controlled settings. This traditional approach to inte…
A few “big players”
Canada's immigration policy is regarded globally as a best practice model for selecting highly skilled migrants. Yet, upon arrival many immigrants face challenges integrating into employment. Where immigrants settle is one factor that has been shown to impact on employment integration. In Canada, regionalization policies have resulted in more immigrants settling in small to mid‐sized cities. It is important to understand how these local systems a…
Understanding the Healthy Immigrant Effect in the Context of Mental Health Challenges
Immigrant Employment Integration in Canada
The Embolden study
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Strange eyes’
As the COVID‐19 pandemic emerged, instances of anti‐immigrant racism and more specifically anti‐Asian racism appeared to increase across Canada. Recognising the need to further explore and document racism and its link with the COVID‐19 pandemic, this paper explores the impact of COVID‐19 on the experiences of racism and discrimination. Using neoracism as a theoretical framework, the research is set in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, a city that ha…
A comparison of young and older adults’ attitudes and preferences towards different travel modes and residential characteristics
Using Hamilton, Ontario as a case study, this study explores the difference between young (18–34 years) and older (65 + years) adults’ automobility behaviour (whether their most common mode of transportation was auto or not), by comparing their attitudes and preferences towards different travel modes. The study also investigates the differences in these two cohorts' attitudes and preferences towards residential characteristics since they can pote…
Canadian’s attitudes toward immigration in the Covid-19 era
Canada depends on immigration for economic and demographic growth. But fears of COVID-19 and attempts to control its spread have resulted in governments closing borders and/or restricting immigration. Concurrently, increased discrimination against people from Asia, and immigrants in general, has been observed. Based on a national survey, this paper examines whether Canadian’s attitudes toward immigration have shifted with the pandemic. Results su…
Older adults and their willingness to use semi and fully autonomous vehicles
Mobility work’
Gender, Space, and Precarious Employment in Canada
This study aims to examine how gendered precariousness is spatially patterned across Canada's landscape using Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey. We compare gender differences in distinct precarious forms of employment (PFEs) across a range of geographies, including national, provincial, census metropolitan areas, and urban/rural areas. We find that distinct spatial patterns and degree of gendered precariousness were evident within and acros…
Self-rated health within the Canadian immigrant population
Health status and Canada's immigrant population
Barriers to Care
Journal Article Barriers to Care: The Challenges for Canadian Refugees and their Health Care Providers Get access Marie McKeary, Marie McKeary McMaster Institute of Environment and Health, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce Newbold Bruce Newbold School of Geography and Earth Sciences and McMaster Institute of Environment and H…
Travel behavior within Canada’s older population
Exploring socio-cultural factors that mediate, facilitate, & constrain the health and empowerment of refugee youth
Paid work, unpaid work and social support
The short-term health of Canada's new immigrant arrivals
The health status of new arrivals, measured by self-assessed health, physical health, and mental health, declines quickly after arrival. Refugees generally experience the lowest levels of health
Equity in health care
Return and Onwards Migration in Canada and Australia
Analysis of return and onwards migration flows has typically relied upon lifetime migration definitions. Both Canada and Australia have collected data on usual place of residence both one and five years prior to the census, which provide a richer source of information on return and onwards moves. Utilizing data drawn from complementary sources, this article examines the incidence, composition and spatial patterning of return and onwards migration…
Chronic Conditions and the Healthy Immigrant Effect
The literature suggests that the foreign-born, and especially recent arrivals, enjoy better health than their Canadian-born counterparts, as measured by a number of health outcomes including self-assessed health and chronic conditions. Using data drawn from Statistics Canada's longitudinal National Population Health Survey (NPHS), the paper evaluates the so-called ‘healthy immigrant effect’ with respect to chronic conditions. Specifically, it eva…
Internal Migration of the Foreign-Born in Canada
This article uses the Public Use Sample file of the 1986 Canadian census to characterize and explain the interprovincial migration patterns of the foreign-born in Canada. Simple overall in- and outmigration rates are calculated for the foreign-born and compared to the interprovincial migration rates for Canadian-born migrants, specifically primary, return and onward migrants. A two-level nested logit model is then applied for foreign-born migrant…
Poverty Catchments
Research has thoroughly documented how out-migration of the educated and skilled from rural areas leaves behind a poorer population and creates pockets of rural poverty. Recently, studies have recognized that the poor are also geographically mobile and that poverty migration patterns can reinforce rural poverty concentrations. In this process, certain impoverished rural communities in economically depressed regions receive a disproportionate shar…
Sense of Place in Hamilton, Ontario
Although the concept of sense of place has a long history in the social sciences, relatively few studies have attempted a quantitative analysis of sense of place at the neighborhood level. This study reports on the empirical findings of a sense of place survey developed and tested in two contrasting neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: Southwest Mountain, an upper-middle-class suburban neighborhood and Northeast Industrial, a lower-income,…
The Effects of Paid and Unpaid Work on Nurses' Well-being
A handful of studies have started to explore the effects on health of both paid and unpaid work among women and men. This paper reports on a survey of a proportional random sample of 2285 women and men nurses from three regions of Ontario. We examine the effects of paid and unpaid work on their well‐being. The data were analysed for the full sample and then multiple regression analyses were run separately for men and women. In our discussion we e…
Factors influencing commute distance
Counting Migrants and Migrations
Lifetime measures of return and onward migration that use place of birth may be rather arbitrary, as they may not capture the essence of “home” region and therefore may not adequately represent ties to place, including where an individual grew up or went to school. The recent availability of census data that include information on place of residence five years prior to the census, one year prior, and at the time of the census allow an alternative…
Elderly Mobility
Recent interest in the urban transport challenges posed by the demographic outlook of ageing societies has prompted a growing body of scholarship on the subject. The focus of this paper is on the topic of elderly trip generation and the development of models to help formalise some important relationships between trip-making behaviour and personal, household and contextual variables (such as location). The case study is the Hamilton Metropolitan A…
Spatial Distribution and Redistribution of Immigrants in the Metropolitan United States, 1980 and 1990
Although the distribution of the immigrant population reflects a dynamic system that evolves over time, the existing literature provides limited insight into the evolution of the immigrant settlement system. Government policies, new information on alternative locations, employment opportunities, housing, or cultural effects may be responsible for subsequent migrations and changes in the population distribution of the foreign-born. Using data from…
Housing Trajectories Across the Urban Hierarchy
Within the Canadian housing market, some immigrants move quickly to quality, affordable housing, whereas others struggle through both systematic and institutional barriers. This article uses Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) —capturing the settlement and integration experiences of immigrants from 2001 to 2005—and investigates housing conditions (housing satisfaction, rates of homeownership, crowding, and affor…
To drive or not to drive
Driving cessation, often due to health-related changes, can be a particularly challenging and troublesome transition in older adulthood that can lead to social isolation. While policy makers have long recognized the potential impact of an aging population on Canada's health care and national pension plans, the transportation needs of older adults have received relatively less attention. For older adults residing in small towns and rural areas who…
Return and Onward Migrations in Canada, 1976‐1981
This paper applies a three‐level nested logit model to the micro data of the 1981 Canadian census to explain the 1976‐81 interprovincial migration choices of the non‐natives (those whose province of residence was different from province of birth), aged 20 to 44, by personal factors and provincial attributes. Important personal factors include mother tongue, level of education, family type, and age. Influential provincial attributes include econom…
Immigrants' perceptions of quality of life in three second‐ or third‐tier Canadian cities
Key Messages The majority of immigrants in Canada live in the country's largest cities; however, many immigrants are choosing to reside in smaller centres, suggesting the need for further research regarding the immigrant experience in second‐ and third‐tier Canadian cities. This study found that immigrants have lower perceptions of quality of life than Canadian‐born individuals, a finding that echoes research in first‐tier cities. Issues of emplo…
Immigrants, islandness and perceptions of quality-of-life on Prince Edward Island, Canada
This paper explores perceptions of immigrant quality-of-life (QOL) and islandness in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and compares these perceptions to those of Canadian-born residents of the same provincial capital. The study employed a mixedmethods approach, including a household telephone survey conducted in the summer of 2012 (n=302), focus group interviews with immigrants in late 2012 and observations on preliminary results by th…
Mobility work’
Transportation barriers to Syrian newcomer participation and settlement in Durham Region
Return and Onward Migrations in Canada, 1976‐1981
This paper applies a three‐level nested logit model to the micro data of the 1981 Canadian census to explain the 1976‐81 interprovincial migration choices of the non‐natives (those whose province of residence was different from province of birth), aged 20 to 44, by personal factors and provincial attributes. Important personal factors include mother tongue, level of education, family type, and age. Influential provincial attributes include econom…
Equity in health care
Internal Migration of the Foreign-Born in Canada
This article uses the Public Use Sample file of the 1986 Canadian census to characterize and explain the interprovincial migration patterns of the foreign-born in Canada. Simple overall in- and outmigration rates are calculated for the foreign-born and compared to the interprovincial migration rates for Canadian-born migrants, specifically primary, return and onward migrants. A two-level nested logit model is then applied for foreign-born migrant…
Internal Migration of the Foreign-Born in Canada
Proxies for healthcare need among populations
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the use of a non-mortality based proxy for relative needs for healthcare among regional populations with a mortality based proxy for population relative needs and to evaluate the additional value of a proxy based on a combination of non-mortality and mortality based proxies. DESIGN: Analysis of cross sectional data on mortality, socioeconomic status, and self assessments of health taken from registrar general records, …
Income, Self-Selection, and Return and Onward Interprovincial Migration in Canada
Estimated returns to migration based on comparison of individual migrants may be biased owing to self-selection in the migration process. Using data derived from the 1986 Canadian census, I will study the effects of expected wage differentials in determining the return or onward migration decision of nonnative adults aged 20 to 64 years. Evidence was found that return migrations were in the 'right' direction, as they are observed to respond to pr…
Paid work, unpaid work and social support
The effect of paid and unpaid work on nurses' well-being
The Effects of Paid and Unpaid Work on Nurses' Well-being
A handful of studies have started to explore the effects on health of both paid and unpaid work among women and men. This paper reports on a survey of a proportional random sample of 2285 women and men nurses from three regions of Ontario. We examine the effects of paid and unpaid work on their well‐being. The data were analysed for the full sample and then multiple regression analyses were run separately for men and women. In our discussion we e…
Allocating resources in health care
Short PapersDisability and use of support services within theCanadian aboriginal population
The objectives of this paper are to explore the health status of the Canadian aboriginal population measured by disability and the type of support services that are used. Activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) are focused upon, with data drawn from the 1991 Aboriginal Peoples Survey. Patterns and types of disability are noted to be similar to those observed within the overall Canadian population, with …
Internal Migration of the Foreign-Born
Spatial Distribution and Redistribution of Immigrants in the Metropolitan United States, 1980 and 1990
Although the distribution of the immigrant population reflects a dynamic system that evolves over time, the existing literature provides limited insight into the evolution of the immigrant settlement system. Government policies, new information on alternative locations, employment opportunities, housing, or cultural effects may be responsible for subsequent migrations and changes in the population distribution of the foreign-born. Using data from…
Intended and initial settlement patterns of recent immigrants to the U.S., 1985–1990
Distance weighted migration measures
This research note proposes new summary measures for migration that use geographic distance as a descriptive factor, establishing a linkage between migration fields and earlier measures of migration – net migration and migration efficiency. By factoring distance into migration efficiency and net migration, we create analogous and complementary measures defined as attraction efficiency and net attraction, respectively. These measures differentiate…
Distance weighted migration measures
Return and Onwards Migration in Canada and Australia
Analysis of return and onwards migration flows has typically relied upon lifetime migration definitions. Both Canada and Australia have collected data on usual place of residence both one and five years prior to the census, which provide a richer source of information on return and onwards moves. Utilizing data drawn from complementary sources, this article examines the incidence, composition and spatial patterning of return and onwards migration…
Immigrant Settlement Patterns in Metropolitan Chicago
The distribution of the immigrant population reflects a dynamic system that evolves over time and differs by arrival cohort and national origin. Government policies, new information, employment opportunities, housing, racism or other cultural effects may be responsible for subsequent migrations and changes in the population distribution of the foreign-born. Using data from the 5 per cent Public Use Microdata Sample, 1990, this paper compares sett…
Counting Migrants and Migrations
Lifetime measures of return and onward migration that use place of birth may be rather arbitrary, as they may not capture the essence of “home” region and therefore may not adequately represent ties to place, including where an individual grew up or went to school. The recent availability of census data that include information on place of residence five years prior to the census, one year prior, and at the time of the census allow an alternative…
Health status and Canada's immigrant population
Geography and segmented assimilation
Drawing upon the segmented assimilation framework, and using the 1990 5% PUMS file, the paper compares the assimilation of selected Chinese immigrant cohorts, based upon age and period of entry. Including a spatial component within the framework, we examine whether differences in the organisation and assimilation of immigrant groups exist across space. For each cohort, contrasts are made with reference to location in the New York Consolidated Met…
Travel behavior within Canada’s older population
Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in Los Angeles
BACKGROUND: The assessment of air pollution exposure using only community average concentrations may lead to measurement error that lowers estimates of the health burden attributable to poor air quality. To test this hypothesis, we modeled the association between air pollution and mortality using small-area exposure measures in Los Angeles, California. METHODS: Data on 22,905 subjects were extracted from the American Cancer Society cohort for the…
Spatial scale, return and onward migration, and the Long‐Boertlein index of repeat migration
Geographic Mobility and Residential Instability in Impoverished Rural Illinois Places
Impoverished rural places are often depicted as immobile communities populated by less skilled, less educated nonmovers who have been left behind by selective out-migrants. Yet certain poor rural localities exhibit high rates of in-migration and residential mobility, an underresearched phenomenon not easily explained by conventional migration theory. The authors explore factors associated with high rates of geographic mobility in impoverished rur…
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