Kathi Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathi Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathi |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5189-3919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 380 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 61 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Medical uncertainty, structural inequities and disease
Associating the Visual Built Environment with Active Transport
Active transport (AT) is a crucial source of health-enhancing physical activity (PA), and the visual built environment (VBE) can significantly influence people’s AT decisions. Street view imagery (SVI) has become widely used for large-scale measurement of the VBE. Previous SVI research, however, has often either focused on residential neighborhoods instead of actual travel routes or has focused on travel modes while neglecting the PA intensity in…
Attracting and Retaining Immigrants Outside of Gateway Cities
Navigating healthcare during the pandemic
Examining the relationship between active transport and exposure to streetscape diversity during travel
Active transport (AT)—physical activity (PA) during travel—can promote human health. Among built environment factors related to travel research, design refers to the street network features encouraging AT. The advent of street view images (SVIs) presents the potential to measure design during travel by capturing the eye-level built environments. Benefited by SVIs, this study innovatively introduces streetscape diversity—the interconnection of str…
"It’s not at all the same as being in the same room, being in the same space"
1 This study investigates how information and communication technology (ICT) facilitated older adults’ home modification to encompass pre-pandemic activities, as well as the health implications of this transition. Using a sample of 24 adults (65+) who lived in the Toronto area during the first summer of the pandemic (May 2020–August 2020), we conduct a qualitative thematic analysis of interviews about daily life, health, and ICT use. We employ di…
Lived Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic Among the Vietnamese Population in the Region of Peel
Landscapes of inequities, structural racism, and disease during the Covid-19 pandemic
A Multiscale Assessment of the Impact of Perceived Safety from Street View Imagery on Street Crime
Perceived safety of the built environment—a cognitive assessment different from emotional fear of crime—might affect the number of potential crime victims in an area and thus affect crime opportunities. The perceived safety derived from street view imagery has propelled scholars to examine its relationship with crime. The literature, however, has not addressed the related geographic scale variability issue; that is, the choice of the geographic a…
Negotiating precarity
The role of urban and rural greenspaces in shaping immigrant wellbeing and settlement in place
Greenspaces promote mental and physical health, yet racialized immigrants are known to experience inequitable greenspace access. There is growing interest in the ability of greenspace to support immigrant settlement and wellbeing. This paper responds to the need for greater attention to equity and inclusion within greenspace and wellbeing studies by examining the unique experiences facing immigrant populations. Given increasing immigrant settleme…
Rural futures? Mapping newcomers' hopes about potential resettlement in Canadian rural areas
The Canadian government recently launched initiatives to promote immigrant settlement outside of traditional gateway cities, in small towns and rural areas. These initiatives attempt to mitigate socio‐economic impacts of population decline, and address barriers to successful integration in urban areas. Drawing on the geographies of hope, this paper examines how newcomers navigate hopes as they imagine rural resettlement in Ontario. Based on focus…
Navigating the quality-of-life impacts of a chronic inflammatory disease (CID) among South Asian children and parents
Access to emergency care in Egypt
Contested and (un)realized capabilities of wellbeing in rural places in Canada
Examines immigrants’ contemplations of wellbeing through urban-rural relocation • Contemplations reveal competing and unrealized capabilities characterize ill/well being • Urban and rural places both stifle yet hold potential to support flourishing lives • Wellbeing emerges in contemplative spaces between place-based aspirations and reality • Efforts to support wellbeing should consider contested capabilities of place Rural relocation of immigran…
Health Care Use and Barriers to Care for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases (CID) among First and Second Generation South Asian Immigrant Children and Parents in Ontario Canada
Although immigrants are disproportionately impacted by growing chronic inflammatory disease (CIDs) rates, yet suffer barriers to access health care, little attention has been given to their primary healthcare or specialist healthcare access as it relates to complex, chronic diseases in Canada, a country with universal health care. This study aims to investigate CID health care use and barriers to care among first- and second-generation immigrant …
Investigating the association between the socioeconomic environment of the service area and fast food visitation
Experiences of food access among disabled adults in Toronto, Canada
Physical access to food is frequently studied using universal measures, like distance to stores, excluding experiences of people who move or travel differently, like disabled people who choose to use mobility aids. Aiming to understand disabling experiences of food access, mobile interviews were conducted with 23 disabled adults who use mobility aids and/or experienced physical barriers to mobility. This study uses a critical ableist studies pers…
Supporting food security for Indigenous families through the restoration of Indigenous foodways
Indigenous families are overrepresented among those within Canada who experience food insecurity. Studies have largely focused on northern populations, with less attention paid to southern and urban communities, including the social, cultural, and geographic processes that challenge food security. In this study, we present findings from a decade‐long community‐based study with the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (London, Ontario…
Examining Indigenous perspectives on the health implications of large‐scale agriculture in Jalisco, Mexico
In Mexico, as in many other parts of the world, industrial agriculture is dramatically changing rural landscapes and altering relationships with the land. This paper draws on community‐based research from a collaborative international research project that examined the perceived health implications of the agricultural industry for Indigenous peoples in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. Thirty interviews were conducted in a Nahuas community experienci…
Indigenous health organizations, Indigenous community resurgence, and the reclamation of place in urban areas
Research around the world has been nearly unanimous about the positive impacts of Indigenous‐led health organizations on Indigenous peoples' qualitative experiences in health care, in the face of often negative experiences in non‐Indigenous‐led health care settings. Urban environments, including health care environments, are areas of increasing attention with regard to Indigenous peoples' health in Canada. In this study, which took place in the n…
Rights and health versus rights to health
Long‐term trends in health status and determinants of health among the off‐reserve Indigenous population in Canada, 1991–2012
The Indigenous population in Canada totals approximately 1.6 million individuals, representing about 5% of the total population. The off‐reserve Indigenous population represents the fastest growing segment of the Indigenous population, with over 50% living in urban settings. Despite the size of the off‐reserve population, research on the health of Indigenous peoples tends to remain focused on reserve‐based populations. The purpose of this paper i…
Disability and food access and insecurity
A scoping review was conducted, using a social ecological model approach, of 106 articles examining the effect of disability on food access and (in)security. Results of the review show a consistently increased risk of food insecurity among people with disabilities with a higher risk for mental health disabilities, and among disabled younger adults. Mediators of this relationship were underexplored. Disability was mainly conceptualized as a proble…
Healthy spaces
I spent nine years looking for a doctor
You Can Make a Place for it
Contemporary research on migration, particularly those studies drawing upon theories of transnationalism, demonstrates the ways in which social relations are stretched across spaces, allowing individuals to disrupt boundaries and create identities of belonging to more than one place. This research focuses on the disruption of state boundaries through migration and identity construction. In this paper we utilize elements of transnational theory an…
Health, healing and recovery
Neighbourhoods and potential access to health care
The availability of, and access to, primary health care is one neighbourhood characteristic that has the potential to impact health thus representing an important area of focus for neighbourhood-health research. This research examines neighbourhood access to primary health care in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. A modification of the Two Step Floating Catchment Area method is used to measure multiple spatial and aspatial (social) dimens…
Reconciling indigenous need with the urban welfare state? Evidence of culturally-appropriate services and spaces for Aboriginals in Winnipeg, Canada
Linking perceptions of neighbourhood to health in Hamilton, Canada
Study objective: To investigate the association between perceptions of neighbourhood physical and social characteristics and three health outcomes (self assessed health status, chronic conditions, and emotional distress). Design: Cross sectional survey data analysed in small neighbourhoods. Setting: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, a medium sized industrial city, located at the western end of Lake Ontario (population at the time of the study about 380 …
Understanding barriers to health care access through cultural safety and ethical space
Migration among temporary foreign workers
Access to Primary Health Care
Neighborhood social and physical contexts have the ability to impact health and health behaviors of residents. One neighborhood characteristic that remains underexamined in the research is access to health care resources. This research examines potential (geographical) access to primary health care in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. A modification of the two-step floating catchment area method that better suits the study of locally rele…
Aboriginal urbanization and rights in Canada
Urbanization among Indigenous peoples is growing globally. This has implications for the assertion of Indigenous rights in urban areas, as rights are largely tied to land bases that generally lie outside of urban areas. Through their impacts on the broader social determinants of health, the links between Indigenous rights and urbanization may be related to health. Focusing on a Canadian example, this study explores relationships between Indigenou…
Meeting health need, accessing health care
Aboriginal peoples, health and healing approaches
Healthy spaces
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…
Reasonable access’ to primary care
Ecofeminism and First Nations Peoples in Canada
Many ecofeminists see women's subordination as a result of linking women with nature. Thus one of their tasks has been to unravel the underlying dualistic structure of the categories ‘women’ and ‘nature’ and to argue for a reconceptualization of these categories. However, there exist amongst ecofeminists epistemological differences pertaining to the ways in which the women–nature connection should be addressed. Spiritual ecofeminists argue that t…
Urban Aboriginal health
This article contributes to the nascent literature on the health of urban Aboriginal people by comparing the health status and determinants of health of the urban Aboriginal and urban non‐Aboriginal population in Canada. Data for the research were taken from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000–2001 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 1.1. Framed within a population health approach, we explore the extent to which health…
Geocoding for public health research
The process of geocoding, particularly the street address matching process, is a commonly used technique to obtain locational information for public health research. In health care accessibility research, geocoded locations of health care providers are an essential element for measuring potential access to health care. Our objective is to compare the geocoding match rates and positional variation of two geocoding procedures by using street networ…
A Multiscale Assessment of the Impact of Perceived Safety from Street View Imagery on Street Crime
Perceived safety of the built environment—a cognitive assessment different from emotional fear of crime—might affect the number of potential crime victims in an area and thus affect crime opportunities. The perceived safety derived from street view imagery has propelled scholars to examine its relationship with crime. The literature, however, has not addressed the related geographic scale variability issue; that is, the choice of the geographic a…
Examining Indigenous perspectives on the health implications of large‐scale agriculture in Jalisco, Mexico
In Mexico, as in many other parts of the world, industrial agriculture is dramatically changing rural landscapes and altering relationships with the land. This paper draws on community‐based research from a collaborative international research project that examined the perceived health implications of the agricultural industry for Indigenous peoples in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. Thirty interviews were conducted in a Nahuas community experienci…
Mobility impairments and geographic variation in vulnerability to household food insecurity
Studies indicate an association between disability and higher rates of household food insecurity (HFI). Geographic variation in this relationship has not been explored despite the potential influence of economic and political contexts, including costs of living and disability social assistance. This study examines the association between mobility impairment and HFI within and across Canada considering the possible role of population composition, …
Socioeconomic inequalities in children's accessibility to food retailing
Urban Aboriginal mobility in Canada
Rural futures? Mapping newcomers' hopes about potential resettlement in Canadian rural areas
The Canadian government recently launched initiatives to promote immigrant settlement outside of traditional gateway cities, in small towns and rural areas. These initiatives attempt to mitigate socio‐economic impacts of population decline, and address barriers to successful integration in urban areas. Drawing on the geographies of hope, this paper examines how newcomers navigate hopes as they imagine rural resettlement in Ontario. Based on focus…
Exploring Indigenous youth perspectives of mobility and social relationships
Growing rates of urbanization among young Indigenous populations have been associated with frequent geographic mobility between urban and rural areas, as well as within cities. Little is known of the context of this mobility, or its impacts on social relationships. With nearly half the urban Indigenous population under the age of 25, gaps persist in understanding the mobility experiences of Indigenous youth, who tend to be more mobile than non‐In…
Meeting health need, accessing health care
Linking perceptions of neighbourhood to health in Hamilton, Canada
Study objective: To investigate the association between perceptions of neighbourhood physical and social characteristics and three health outcomes (self assessed health status, chronic conditions, and emotional distress). Design: Cross sectional survey data analysed in small neighbourhoods. Setting: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, a medium sized industrial city, located at the western end of Lake Ontario (population at the time of the study about 380 …
Reasonable access’ to primary care
Ecofeminism and First Nations Peoples in Canada
Many ecofeminists see women's subordination as a result of linking women with nature. Thus one of their tasks has been to unravel the underlying dualistic structure of the categories ‘women’ and ‘nature’ and to argue for a reconceptualization of these categories. However, there exist amongst ecofeminists epistemological differences pertaining to the ways in which the women–nature connection should be addressed. Spiritual ecofeminists argue that t…
Unless you went in with your head under your arm
You Can Make a Place for it
Contemporary research on migration, particularly those studies drawing upon theories of transnationalism, demonstrates the ways in which social relations are stretched across spaces, allowing individuals to disrupt boundaries and create identities of belonging to more than one place. This research focuses on the disruption of state boundaries through migration and identity construction. In this paper we utilize elements of transnational theory an…
Factors Affecting Change Over Time in Self-reported Health
‘Education? It is irrelevant to my job now. It makes me very depressed …’
Immigrants account for 20% of the population and 60% of total population growth in Canada (Statistics Canada 2001). The majority of immigrants are accepted for entry to Canada under the Skilled Worker Program in order to fill employment shortages in the labour market (CIC 2007). Recent research has revealed that an increasing number of immigrants who gain entry under this programme face significant barriers to employment. As a result, many remain…
Health in Hamilton neighbourhoods
Health, healing and recovery
I spent nine years looking for a doctor
Health status and health behaviours in neighbourhoods
Health status has been demonstrated to vary by neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES). However, neighbourhood effects may vary between countries. In this study, neighbourhood variations in health outcomes are compared across four socially contrasting neighbourhoods in Glasgow, Scotland and Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Data came from the 2001 wave of the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Longitudinal Study and a 2000/2001 cross-sectional survey conducted …
“My health has improved because I always have everything I need here…”
Reconciling indigenous need with the urban welfare state? Evidence of culturally-appropriate services and spaces for Aboriginals in Winnipeg, Canada
Aboriginal peoples, health and healing approaches
Neighbourhoods and potential access to health care
The availability of, and access to, primary health care is one neighbourhood characteristic that has the potential to impact health thus representing an important area of focus for neighbourhood-health research. This research examines neighbourhood access to primary health care in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. A modification of the Two Step Floating Catchment Area method is used to measure multiple spatial and aspatial (social) dimens…
Realizing neighbourhood potential? The role of the availability of health care services on contact with a primary care physician
Access to health services research has traditionally focused on demographic, socioeconomic, and need-based factors, resulting in a relative lack of knowledge regarding place-based determinants. Further, much of what we know comes from international, national, and regional study. This study analyzes survey data (n=1635) to explore the relationship between neighbourhood-level potential access (i.e., availability) and realized access (i.e., use) in …
Urban Aboriginal health
This article contributes to the nascent literature on the health of urban Aboriginal people by comparing the health status and determinants of health of the urban Aboriginal and urban non‐Aboriginal population in Canada. Data for the research were taken from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000–2001 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 1.1. Framed within a population health approach, we explore the extent to which health…
Urban Aboriginal mobility in Canada
Diagnosis and treatment of food allergies in off‐reserve Aboriginal children in Canada
Food allergies have emerged as an important public health risk in many countries, Canada included, affecting children at a disproportionate rate. However, we know very little about food allergies among Aboriginal children in Canada, who are often characterized as representing a particularly vulnerable population with respect to health and life conditions more generally. Our objective was to address this gap by exploring the prevalence and managem…
Access to Primary Health Care
Neighborhood social and physical contexts have the ability to impact health and health behaviors of residents. One neighborhood characteristic that remains underexamined in the research is access to health care resources. This research examines potential (geographical) access to primary health care in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. A modification of the two-step floating catchment area method that better suits the study of locally rele…
Aboriginal urbanization and rights in Canada
Urbanization among Indigenous peoples is growing globally. This has implications for the assertion of Indigenous rights in urban areas, as rights are largely tied to land bases that generally lie outside of urban areas. Through their impacts on the broader social determinants of health, the links between Indigenous rights and urbanization may be related to health. Focusing on a Canadian example, this study explores relationships between Indigenou…
Comparing health status and access to health care in Canada’s largest metropolitan areas
Research has shown persistent inequalities in access to health care between and within sociodemographic groups and geographic areas. Yet much of what we know about geographical disparities in access comes from studies of regional and urban/rural contrasts, or from studies of intra-urban, neighborhood-level variations. We know relatively little about variations in access to primary health care across different urban areas, and whether such variati…
Geocoding for public health research
The process of geocoding, particularly the street address matching process, is a commonly used technique to obtain locational information for public health research. In health care accessibility research, geocoded locations of health care providers are an essential element for measuring potential access to health care. Our objective is to compare the geocoding match rates and positional variation of two geocoding procedures by using street networ…
Examining the Urban Aboriginal Policy Gap
In recent decades, Aboriginal peoples in Western settler nations have become increasingly urbanized. In many cases, urbanization has been associated with notably high levels of geographic mobility between rural/reserve areas and cities, as well as within cities. Despite the increasing urbanization of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the policy environment in Canada remains focused on the reserve-based population. Drawing upon thirty-nine in-depth in…
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