Mark Rosenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Rosenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A study of involuntary rural migrants from the three Gorges dam: Lessons to be learned in a world hungry for energy
Gender differences in factors associated with rural health care practice in Minnesota
PURPOSE: To understand gender differences in factors affecting rural health care workforce to inform the development of effective policies and recruitment strategies to address rural health care workforce shortages. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of health care professionals (including Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), physicians, physician assistants (PAs), and registered nurses (RNs)) in Minnesota was administered by the Minnesota…
Identifying Mental Health Issues in Indian Immigrants in Canada: A Comparison with Non-Indian Immigrants
Much of the literature on the mental health of immigrants tends to generalize, treating all immigrants as one category, and not accounting for how life experiences in the country of origin can shape mental health. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to contrast the differences in self-rated mental health between Indian immigrants and non-Indian immigrants based on immigration-related factors, sociodemographic factors and health and healthcare…
Negotiating precarity: Recent immigrants’ perceptions of waiting for public healthcare in Ontario, Canada
Assessing Urban Policies in a Covid-19 World
The aim of this study was to identify how the literature analyzes (identifies, evaluates, forecasts, etc.) the relationship between health issues and urban policy in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four main levels were identified in these cases: (1) direct demands for changes in health care, (2) social issues, (3) spatial organization and (4) redefining the tasks of public authority in the face of identified challenges. The basic working meth…
Does social capital interact with economic hardships in influencing older adults’ health? A study from China
Geographical settings are important factors in the complexity between social and economic capital in affecting older health. Intervention efforts directed towards reducing simultaneously multiple dimensions of deprivation, such as poverty, social exclusion, social isolation, could be helpful in improving older people's health. In materially deprived places, policies to promote health equity by improving social capital but without eliminating pove…
Understanding unmet health-care need among older Ghanaians: A gendered analysis
Health insurance schemes are important for bridging gaps in health-care needs between the rich and poor, especially in contexts where poverty is higher among seniors (persons aged 65 years and above). In this study we examined (a) gender-based predictors of unmet health-care need among seniors and (b) whether access was influenced by wealth status (measured by income quintiles). Gender-specific negative log–log regression models were fitted to da…
University of Minnesota Medical School
Medical Education Program Highlights Founded in 1888, the University of Minnesota Medical School (UMMS) is 1 of the 10 largest medical schools in the country—with 240 students per class across 2 campuses in the Twin Cities and Duluth. As a land-grant institution, we are dedicated to improving the health of the state’s citizens and beyond, educating its future physicians, and creating new knowledge through discovery. It is estimated that 70% of th…
A spatial multilevel analysis of the impacts of housing conditions on county-level life expectancy at birth in China
Mobilities of Older Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants: A Case Study in Beijing
Along with the rapid urbanization process in Beijing, China, the number of older rural-urban migrants is increasing. This study aims to understand how Chinese rural-urban migration in older age is influenced by, and impacts on the migrants' mobilities. This study draws on a new conceptual framework of mobile vulnerability, influenced by physical, economic, institutional, social and cultural mobility, to understand older people' experiences of mig…
Understanding the Wellbeing of the Oldest-Old in China: A Study of Socio-Economic and Geographical Variations Based on CLHLS Data
Empirical studies of the socio-economic determinants of the wellbeing of the oldest-old in China including the role of geography and spatial factors are rare. This paper applies binary logistic regression analysis to data on the oldest-old aged 80 years old and higher from the 2011 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study (CLHLS). Socioeconomic determinants of the self-reported quality of life (QoL) and self-reported health (SRH) of the oldes…
Prevalence and Predictors of Food Insecurity among Older People in Canada
Background : Food insecurity research has been mainly examined among young people. The root causes of food insecurity are closely linked to poverty, and social policies and income supplements, including public and private pensions, have been shown to sharply curb food insecurity into later life. However, social, economic, and political trends that are closely connected to social and health inequalities threaten to undermine the conditions that ha…
Relationships among Environment, Climate, and Longevity in China
Human longevity is influenced by environment and nutrition. We considered environmental and nutritional factors relating to longevity in Chinese cities. We found higher 85+/65+ distribution ratios, indicating enhanced longevity, in the coastal and southern regions of China. These areas also featured higher humidity, low standard deviation of monthly temperature, higher levels of selenium (Se) distribution in soil, and greater sea fish consumption…
Health geography III: Old ideas, new ideas or new determinisms
This report is organized around a set of topics that have dominated much of the recent literature in health geography: the importance of neighbourhoods, green spaces/blue spaces, density, walkability, and vulnerable populations. These topics are discussed in terms of the need to shift to new ideas and to avoid creating new determinisms in health geography. A second critical argument to the report is that health geographers also need to focus more…
Food security for community-living elderly people in Beijing, China
Food security has been identified as an important issue for elderly people's quality of life and ageing in place. A food security index composed of three indicators (food intake, food quality and food affordability) was developed to measure the food security status of community-living elderly people. Food security was then examined among community-living elderly in the central urban districts of Beijing, China. Data were collected by a questionna…
Health geography II: ‘Dividing’ health geography
Over the years, various observers of health geography have sought to ‘divide’ the sub-discipline mainly along theoretical lines or to argue for a broadening of its theoretical base. Paralleling the growing theoretical pluralism within health geography has been a growing methodological pluralism. As in other parts of human geography, health geographers have embraced historical research, quantitative and qualitative methods, and computer mapping an…
Health geography I: Social justice, idealist theory, health and health care
Health geographers have generally been content to adopt measures of distance, access and the lack of resources as the metrics of social (in)justice without critically placing their research in a framework of social justice. The purpose of this review is twofold: first, to examine recent research in health geography under three themes – access to care, neighbourhoods, and health and environmental justice; second, to introduce a debate about ideali…
Ethnicity and utilization of family physicians: A case study of Mainland Chinese immigrants in Toronto, Canada
Offloading social care responsibilities: Recent experiences of local voluntary organisations in a remote urban centre in British Columbia, Canada
Services offered by voluntary organisations are an integral but often overlooked component of health and social care. Of late, there has been a renewed interest in voluntary welfare provision as a viable alternative to state and market. Recent developments in welfare provision in Canada appear to have brought greater social care roles for the voluntary sector at the same time as new and arguably more restrictive funding and accountability mechani…
Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformation in the US South and the Mexican South
Offers a look at world inequality by comparing the development problems and prospects of southern Mexico and the US South in the context of global restructuring and NAFTA. Both regions have a history and legacy as labour-repressive producers of primary commodities. However, the US South today encompasses poles of considerable wealth and poverty, wh
Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding
Kelly Bedard, John Dorland, Allan W. Gregory, Mark Rosenberg, Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 47-64
Teaching medical geography
A ‘Teaching Medical Geography’ workshop was held at the 1994 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), co‐sponsored by the Medical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG and the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Health, Environment and Development. These papers report on a selection of methodological and theoretical issues from the workshop
Theoretical workshops: The challenges of teaching medical geography
Complexity in the Rural Canadian Housing Landscape
Rural housing conditions and needs across Canada are as complex as the rural landscape itself, yet within the research literature rural housing is often treated as a single and unproblematic unit. This paper makes two arguments about rural housing research in Canada. The first is that the ‘rural’ is a complex housing landscape, not simply an undifferentiated ‘other’ in comparison to urban housing. The second is that this complexity has important …
Changing Trading Patterns of the Caribbean Basin
This article examines current trade patterns of the Caribbean Basin and the likely impact that changes in the international trade environment will have on them. The numerous bilateral and subregional preferential agreements that sustain the region's economy will be the framework in which Caribbean trade is examined. Also examined are the threats posed to these relationships by the implementation of free trade arrangements and the changing politic…
Health geography III: Old ideas, new ideas or new determinisms
This report is organized around a set of topics that have dominated much of the recent literature in health geography: the importance of neighbourhoods, green spaces/blue spaces, density, walkability, and vulnerable populations. These topics are discussed in terms of the need to shift to new ideas and to avoid creating new determinisms in health geography. A second critical argument to the report is that health geographers also need to focus more…
Health geography I: Social justice, idealist theory, health and health care
Health geographers have generally been content to adopt measures of distance, access and the lack of resources as the metrics of social (in)justice without critically placing their research in a framework of social justice. The purpose of this review is twofold: first, to examine recent research in health geography under three themes – access to care, neighbourhoods, and health and environmental justice; second, to introduce a debate about ideali…
Ethnicity and utilization of family physicians: A case study of Mainland Chinese immigrants in Toronto, Canada
Health geography II: ‘Dividing’ health geography
Over the years, various observers of health geography have sought to ‘divide’ the sub-discipline mainly along theoretical lines or to argue for a broadening of its theoretical base. Paralleling the growing theoretical pluralism within health geography has been a growing methodological pluralism. As in other parts of human geography, health geographers have embraced historical research, quantitative and qualitative methods, and computer mapping an…
Offloading social care responsibilities: Recent experiences of local voluntary organisations in a remote urban centre in British Columbia, Canada
Services offered by voluntary organisations are an integral but often overlooked component of health and social care. Of late, there has been a renewed interest in voluntary welfare provision as a viable alternative to state and market. Recent developments in welfare provision in Canada appear to have brought greater social care roles for the voluntary sector at the same time as new and arguably more restrictive funding and accountability mechani…
Food security for community-living elderly people in Beijing, China
Food security has been identified as an important issue for elderly people's quality of life and ageing in place. A food security index composed of three indicators (food intake, food quality and food affordability) was developed to measure the food security status of community-living elderly people. Food security was then examined among community-living elderly in the central urban districts of Beijing, China. Data were collected by a questionna…
Changing Trading Patterns of the Caribbean Basin
This article examines current trade patterns of the Caribbean Basin and the likely impact that changes in the international trade environment will have on them. The numerous bilateral and subregional preferential agreements that sustain the region's economy will be the framework in which Caribbean trade is examined. Also examined are the threats posed to these relationships by the implementation of free trade arrangements and the changing politic…
Readings on ethical and social issues in biomedicine
Honduras: Caudillo Politics and Military Rulers
Changing Trading Patterns of the Caribbean Basin
This article examines current trade patterns of the Caribbean Basin and the likely impact that changes in the international trade environment will have on them. The numerous bilateral and subregional preferential agreements that sustain the region's economy will be the framework in which Caribbean trade is examined. Also examined are the threats posed to these relationships by the implementation of free trade arrangements and the changing politic…
Teaching medical geography
A ‘Teaching Medical Geography’ workshop was held at the 1994 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), co‐sponsored by the Medical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG and the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Health, Environment and Development. These papers report on a selection of methodological and theoretical issues from the workshop
Theoretical workshops: The challenges of teaching medical geography
Complexity in the Rural Canadian Housing Landscape
Rural housing conditions and needs across Canada are as complex as the rural landscape itself, yet within the research literature rural housing is often treated as a single and unproblematic unit. This paper makes two arguments about rural housing research in Canada. The first is that the ‘rural’ is a complex housing landscape, not simply an undifferentiated ‘other’ in comparison to urban housing. The second is that this complexity has important …
Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformation in the US South and the Mexican South
Offers a look at world inequality by comparing the development problems and prospects of southern Mexico and the US South in the context of global restructuring and NAFTA. Both regions have a history and legacy as labour-repressive producers of primary commodities. However, the US South today encompasses poles of considerable wealth and poverty, wh
Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding
Kelly Bedard, John Dorland, Allan W. Gregory, Mark Rosenberg, Standardized Mortality Ratios and Canadian Health-Care Funding, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 47-64
Offloading social care responsibilities: Recent experiences of local voluntary organisations in a remote urban centre in British Columbia, Canada
Services offered by voluntary organisations are an integral but often overlooked component of health and social care. Of late, there has been a renewed interest in voluntary welfare provision as a viable alternative to state and market. Recent developments in welfare provision in Canada appear to have brought greater social care roles for the voluntary sector at the same time as new and arguably more restrictive funding and accountability mechani…
Ethnicity and utilization of family physicians: A case study of Mainland Chinese immigrants in Toronto, Canada
Health geography I: Social justice, idealist theory, health and health care
Health geographers have generally been content to adopt measures of distance, access and the lack of resources as the metrics of social (in)justice without critically placing their research in a framework of social justice. The purpose of this review is twofold: first, to examine recent research in health geography under three themes – access to care, neighbourhoods, and health and environmental justice; second, to introduce a debate about ideali…
Food security for community-living elderly people in Beijing, China
Food security has been identified as an important issue for elderly people's quality of life and ageing in place. A food security index composed of three indicators (food intake, food quality and food affordability) was developed to measure the food security status of community-living elderly people. Food security was then examined among community-living elderly in the central urban districts of Beijing, China. Data were collected by a questionna…
Health geography II: ‘Dividing’ health geography
Over the years, various observers of health geography have sought to ‘divide’ the sub-discipline mainly along theoretical lines or to argue for a broadening of its theoretical base. Paralleling the growing theoretical pluralism within health geography has been a growing methodological pluralism. As in other parts of human geography, health geographers have embraced historical research, quantitative and qualitative methods, and computer mapping an…
Health geography III: Old ideas, new ideas or new determinisms
This report is organized around a set of topics that have dominated much of the recent literature in health geography: the importance of neighbourhoods, green spaces/blue spaces, density, walkability, and vulnerable populations. These topics are discussed in terms of the need to shift to new ideas and to avoid creating new determinisms in health geography. A second critical argument to the report is that health geographers also need to focus more…
Relationships among Environment, Climate, and Longevity in China
Human longevity is influenced by environment and nutrition. We considered environmental and nutritional factors relating to longevity in Chinese cities. We found higher 85+/65+ distribution ratios, indicating enhanced longevity, in the coastal and southern regions of China. These areas also featured higher humidity, low standard deviation of monthly temperature, higher levels of selenium (Se) distribution in soil, and greater sea fish consumption…
Prevalence and Predictors of Food Insecurity among Older People in Canada
Background : Food insecurity research has been mainly examined among young people. The root causes of food insecurity are closely linked to poverty, and social policies and income supplements, including public and private pensions, have been shown to sharply curb food insecurity into later life. However, social, economic, and political trends that are closely connected to social and health inequalities threaten to undermine the conditions that ha…
Mobilities of Older Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants: A Case Study in Beijing
Along with the rapid urbanization process in Beijing, China, the number of older rural-urban migrants is increasing. This study aims to understand how Chinese rural-urban migration in older age is influenced by, and impacts on the migrants' mobilities. This study draws on a new conceptual framework of mobile vulnerability, influenced by physical, economic, institutional, social and cultural mobility, to understand older people' experiences of mig…
Understanding the Wellbeing of the Oldest-Old in China: A Study of Socio-Economic and Geographical Variations Based on CLHLS Data
Empirical studies of the socio-economic determinants of the wellbeing of the oldest-old in China including the role of geography and spatial factors are rare. This paper applies binary logistic regression analysis to data on the oldest-old aged 80 years old and higher from the 2011 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study (CLHLS). Socioeconomic determinants of the self-reported quality of life (QoL) and self-reported health (SRH) of the oldes…
University of Minnesota Medical School
Medical Education Program Highlights Founded in 1888, the University of Minnesota Medical School (UMMS) is 1 of the 10 largest medical schools in the country—with 240 students per class across 2 campuses in the Twin Cities and Duluth. As a land-grant institution, we are dedicated to improving the health of the state’s citizens and beyond, educating its future physicians, and creating new knowledge through discovery. It is estimated that 70% of th…
A spatial multilevel analysis of the impacts of housing conditions on county-level life expectancy at birth in China
Does social capital interact with economic hardships in influencing older adults’ health? A study from China
Geographical settings are important factors in the complexity between social and economic capital in affecting older health. Intervention efforts directed towards reducing simultaneously multiple dimensions of deprivation, such as poverty, social exclusion, social isolation, could be helpful in improving older people's health. In materially deprived places, policies to promote health equity by improving social capital but without eliminating pove…
Understanding unmet health-care need among older Ghanaians: A gendered analysis
Health insurance schemes are important for bridging gaps in health-care needs between the rich and poor, especially in contexts where poverty is higher among seniors (persons aged 65 years and above). In this study we examined (a) gender-based predictors of unmet health-care need among seniors and (b) whether access was influenced by wealth status (measured by income quintiles). Gender-specific negative log–log regression models were fitted to da…
Assessing Urban Policies in a Covid-19 World
The aim of this study was to identify how the literature analyzes (identifies, evaluates, forecasts, etc.) the relationship between health issues and urban policy in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four main levels were identified in these cases: (1) direct demands for changes in health care, (2) social issues, (3) spatial organization and (4) redefining the tasks of public authority in the face of identified challenges. The basic working meth…
Negotiating precarity: Recent immigrants’ perceptions of waiting for public healthcare in Ontario, Canada
Gender differences in factors associated with rural health care practice in Minnesota
PURPOSE: To understand gender differences in factors affecting rural health care workforce to inform the development of effective policies and recruitment strategies to address rural health care workforce shortages. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of health care professionals (including Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), physicians, physician assistants (PAs), and registered nurses (RNs)) in Minnesota was administered by the Minnesota…
Medicine (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Health care (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works)