Neil Arya
Biographic Data
| ID | 3679290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Arya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Arya |
| SIGNATURE | ARYA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9524-1146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Operating Ethnicity-Focused Senior Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario, Canada During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Canada's ageing population continues to grow rapidly and significantly more diverse, which will require unique health and home service needs. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing challenges in Canada's healthcare system and demonstrated the need for long-term care (LTC). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 decision makers, managers, and leaders in long-term ethnically focused facility care. Braun & Clarke's six-stage process o…
Refugees in the Global North
The movement of refugees across borders has become a persistent feature of contemporary global society. Despite the protections offered by the 1951 Refugee Convention, which has been ratified by some 146 states, countries in the Global North have adopted a variety of contradictory and incoherent policy responses to refugees and migrants. These responses have been influenced by anti-immigrant public sentiment and growing popular demands to restric…
Medical Interpreting Services for Refugees in Canada
Language barriers, specifically among refugees, pose significant challenges to delivering quality healthcare in Canada. While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the emergence and development of innovative alternatives such as telephone-based and video-conferencing medical interpreting services and AI tools, access remains uneven across Canada. This comprehensive analysis highlights the absence of a cohesive national strategy, reflected in diverse …
Pegasus McGill courses
As today’s world becomes more clearly interconnected, critical areas of intersection affecting global health include migration, conflict, and the environment. To help inform global citizens, academ
Assessing Virtual Mental Health Access for Refugees during the Covid-19 Pandemic Using the Levesque Client-Centered Framework
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health services rapidly transitioned to virtual care. Although such services can improve access for underserved populations, they may also present unique challenges, especially for refugee newcomers. This study examined the multidimensional nature of access to virtual mental health (VMH) care for refugee newcomers during the COVID-19 pandemic, using Levesque et al.'s Client-Centered Framework for Assessing Acc…
The Pegasus Conferences
The Contribution of Family Medicine and Family Medicine Leaders to Primary Health Care Development in Americas - from Alma-Ata to Astana and beyond
Since 2012, the Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine at the College of Family Physician of Canada has brought together its partners from the Americas annually, to reflect on the evolution of Family Medicine on the continent since Alma-Ata, and to look forward to future challenges. Family doctors are but one element of a strong health system. Family Medicine provides key ingredients to respond to population health needs especially as countrie…
Determinants of Implementation of a Clinical Practice Guideline for Homeless Health
Clinical practice guidelines can improve the clinical and social care for marginalized populations, thereby improving health equity. The aim of this study is to identify determinants of guideline implementation from the perspective of patients and practitioner stakeholders for a homeless health guideline. We completed a mixed-method study to identify determinants of equitable implementation of homeless health guidelines, focusing on the Grading o…
Rethinking medical education
Making Health Work for Peace in Humanitarian Situations
From the time of Florence Nightingale, humanitarian health and aid workers have dedicated themselves to the welfare of patients outside of their own communities, nobly sacrificing their own safety, economic well being, mental health, and sometimes even life. They witness and deal with the human consequences of violent conflict and care for those that are directly affected by it. Dedicated humanitarian professionals such as Albert Schweitzer, Henr…
Approaching Peace Through Health with a Critical Eye
It has been a privilege to be asked to edit this edition of Peace Review and to see such interests in the connections between peace and health. Peace through Health (PtH) was developed at McMaster University in Canada in the 1990s as a theoretical concept with practical applications such as field projects. Building on the Health as a Bridge to Peace (HBP) policy and planning framework of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World H…
What Role Does Type of Sponsorship Play in Early Integration Outcomes? Syrian Refugees Resettled in Six Canadian Cities
There is little longitudinal research that directly compares the effectiveness of Canada’s Government-Assisted Refugee (GAR) and Privately Sponsored Refugee (PSR) Programs that takes into account possible socio-demographic differences between them. This article reports findings from 1,921 newly arrived adult Syrian refugees in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec. GARs and PSRs differed widely on several demographic characteristics, including le…
Victor W. Sidel (7 July 1931–30 January 2018)
Preventing war and promoting peace
Before beginning this review, I should issue a disclaimer. I was asked to contribute to this book (declined) and a few chapters in this volume cite work I have authored. Further, I am part of the P
From darkness to light-Robert J Lifton's the climate swerve - understanding human nature to avert global catastrophe
Prevalence of Nutritional Deficiencies Among Populations of Newly Arriving Government Assisted Refugee Children to Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
The Palestinian–Israeli conflict
Fourth of June 2017 marks a half century of the Six Day War, three decades post the first Intifada, seven decades post the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe), the 70th anniversary of Israeli Independence, and one century post the Balfour Declaration. Both Palestinians and Israelis remain occupied. Five million Palestinians remain sick with hopelessness and despair rendered by years of subjugation. Israelis are stuck, occupied by their historical nar…
Hatred-a public health issue
Hatred may be defined as a ‘negative emotion that motivates and may lead to negative behaviours with severe consequences’ (Halperin 2008). Though these sentiments might accompany it, hatred is not
Renewing the call for public health advocacy against nuclear weapons
While the Cold War was raging in the 1980s, getting public health schools in the Global North to take a position against nuclear weapons, and to advocate for inclusion of the arms trade and violenc
Peace and health
The Lancet, Gaza and academic publishing
Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future
Responsibility to Protect at age 10 – still worthy of support
The Role of Public Health in the Prevention of War
In 2009 the American Public Health Association approved the policy statement, “The Role of Public Health Practitioners, Academics, and Advocates in Relation to Armed Conflict and War.” Despite the known health effects of war, the development of competencies to prevent war has received little attention. Public health’s ethical principles of practice prioritize addressing the fundamental causes of disease and adverse health outcomes. A working grou…
Integrated Primary Care Improves Access to Healthcare for Newly Arrived Refugees in Canada
The roles of the health sector and health workers before, during and after violent conflict
Starting with a view of war as a significant population health problem, this article explores the roles of health workers in relation to violent conflict. Four different roles are identified, defined by goals and values--military, development, humanitarian and peace. In addition, four dimensions of health work are seen as cross-cutting factors influencing health work in violent conflict-- whether the health worker is an insider or outsider to the…
What Role Does Type of Sponsorship Play in Early Integration Outcomes? Syrian Refugees Resettled in Six Canadian Cities
There is little longitudinal research that directly compares the effectiveness of Canada’s Government-Assisted Refugee (GAR) and Privately Sponsored Refugee (PSR) Programs that takes into account possible socio-demographic differences between them. This article reports findings from 1,921 newly arrived adult Syrian refugees in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec. GARs and PSRs differed widely on several demographic characteristics, including le…
Pesticides and Human Health
The Role of Public Health in the Prevention of War
In 2009 the American Public Health Association approved the policy statement, “The Role of Public Health Practitioners, Academics, and Advocates in Relation to Armed Conflict and War.” Despite the known health effects of war, the development of competencies to prevent war has received little attention. Public health’s ethical principles of practice prioritize addressing the fundamental causes of disease and adverse health outcomes. A working grou…
Operation Infinite Injustice
Approaching Peace Through Health with a Critical Eye
It has been a privilege to be asked to edit this edition of Peace Review and to see such interests in the connections between peace and health. Peace through Health (PtH) was developed at McMaster University in Canada in the 1990s as a theoretical concept with practical applications such as field projects. Building on the Health as a Bridge to Peace (HBP) policy and planning framework of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World H…
Small arms, physicians and politics
Figures for deaths from private use of small arms, particularly in children and young people, are summarized and responses to the discussion of these figures in a recent editorial in the British Medical Journal are considered. It is contended that the figures highlight a major public health problem, particularly in the United States. Further, this article emphasizes that the politicization of the debate by the US gun lobby should not be allowed t…
Globalization
This article addresses the impact of the neo-liberal agenda of globalization and in particular how international financial institutions and transnational corporations have affected and continue to affect the health of peoples, especially the poorest. It also examines impacts of these policies on the environment and peace
Operation Infinite Injustice
Peace through Health I
Peace through Health (PtH) is an evolving academic discipline that explores how health interventions may contribute to peace in actual and potential war zones and situations of conflict. This article is an attempt to define the scope of PtH activities, to develop a framework for groups and individuals to conceptualise their role in peace work and to develop clearly definable goals for evaluation. The use of a new model of 'Peace through Health' w…
Peace through Health II
The world's first university course in Peace through Health (PtH) recently finished at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Medical students and academic staff in Canada and Europe have expressed interest in developing this course for other medical schools. Seven medical students were selected to do an unofficial 'audit' in return for 'in kind' work, developing the course materials for the web and adaptation to the medical curriculum. This arti…
Pesticides and Human Health
Can a Health Unit Take Action on the Determinants of Health
Deadly addiction
The effects of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the political and moral context surrounding their use are discussed. The rationale for development of the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons programmes are summarised and critically examined in comparison to the costs of the programmes and the social needs, which could have been addressed. Alternative routes to provide peace and security are proposed, both for India, Pakistan, and oth…
The end of biomilitary realism? Rethinking biomedicine and international security
Medicine and politics have a common aim, the welfare of people, and the ideas and language of one influence the other. There are parallels between medicine, particularly its more cutting-edge aspects, and international affairs; and the more aggressive forms of medicine, like the more aggressive forms of international relationships, seem to be about short-term gain, based on little evidence, with longer-term negative consequences as the full impac…
Is military action ever justified? A physician defends the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
This article initially examines the moral dilemmas of war from personal and family experience, from the perspective of a family doctor trained to preserve life and a member of the peace movement. It then explores Just War from religious viewpoints and the challenges to pacifism from those living in war zones, and from human rights and human security perspectives. It concludes that the Responsibility to Protect reflects sound medical principles ba…
Economic sanctions
Economic sanctions are often considered to be a legitimate, more peaceful alternative to war. Using examples, particularly that of Iraq, it is evident that this is not necessarily so. As attempts are made to design coercion on nation states short of war, we must heed these examples and consider sanctions as a form of siege warfare. This paper attempts to refine criteria to allow the imposition of sanctions. These would be similar to those allowin…
Just war, psychology and terrorism
Just war, psychology and terrorism, edited by R. Roberts, Ross-on-Wye, UK, PCCS Books, 2007, 272 pp., £20.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781898059929 Our enemies make nerve gas. So will we. They squander th
Time for an ecosystem approach to public health? Lessons from two infectious disease outbreaks in Canada
Ecosystem approaches recognize the complexity of many contemporary public health challenges and offer an alternative for dealing with problems that have proven intractable and unresponsive to conventional public health strategies. Infectious disease outbreaks are among the most dramatic aspects of systems failure, and the Canadian cases of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in Toronto, and the E. coli outbreak in Walkerton, serve as useful …
The roles of the health sector and health workers before, during and after violent conflict
Starting with a view of war as a significant population health problem, this article explores the roles of health workers in relation to violent conflict. Four different roles are identified, defined by goals and values--military, development, humanitarian and peace. In addition, four dimensions of health work are seen as cross-cutting factors influencing health work in violent conflict-- whether the health worker is an insider or outsider to the…
Integrated Primary Care Improves Access to Healthcare for Newly Arrived Refugees in Canada
The Role of Public Health in the Prevention of War
In 2009 the American Public Health Association approved the policy statement, “The Role of Public Health Practitioners, Academics, and Advocates in Relation to Armed Conflict and War.” Despite the known health effects of war, the development of competencies to prevent war has received little attention. Public health’s ethical principles of practice prioritize addressing the fundamental causes of disease and adverse health outcomes. A working grou…
The Lancet, Gaza and academic publishing
Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future
Responsibility to Protect at age 10 – still worthy of support
The Palestinian–Israeli conflict
Fourth of June 2017 marks a half century of the Six Day War, three decades post the first Intifada, seven decades post the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe), the 70th anniversary of Israeli Independence, and one century post the Balfour Declaration. Both Palestinians and Israelis remain occupied. Five million Palestinians remain sick with hopelessness and despair rendered by years of subjugation. Israelis are stuck, occupied by their historical nar…
Hatred-a public health issue
Hatred may be defined as a ‘negative emotion that motivates and may lead to negative behaviours with severe consequences’ (Halperin 2008). Though these sentiments might accompany it, hatred is not
Renewing the call for public health advocacy against nuclear weapons
While the Cold War was raging in the 1980s, getting public health schools in the Global North to take a position against nuclear weapons, and to advocate for inclusion of the arms trade and violenc
Peace and health
Victor W. Sidel (7 July 1931–30 January 2018)
Preventing war and promoting peace
Before beginning this review, I should issue a disclaimer. I was asked to contribute to this book (declined) and a few chapters in this volume cite work I have authored. Further, I am part of the P
From darkness to light-Robert J Lifton's the climate swerve - understanding human nature to avert global catastrophe
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