Aleck Ostry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3932397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleck Ostry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleck |
| FAMILY NAME | Ostry |
| SIGNATURE | OSTRY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Air pollution, neighbourhood and maternal-level factors modify the effect of smoking on birth weight: A multilevel analysis in British Columbia, Canada
Maternal smoking had a negative and non-linear dose-response association with birth weight which was highly variable between neighbourhoods and evidence of effect modification with neighbourhood-level factors. These results suggest that focusing exclusively on individual behaviours may have limited success in improving outcomes without addressing the contextual influences at the neighbourhood-level. Further studies are needed to corroborate our f…
A survey of food bank operations in five Canadian cities
Despite their extensive history, food banks in Canada remain dependent on donations and volunteers, with available resources quickly exhausted in the face of agencies' efforts to more fully meet clients' needs. Food banks have limited capacity to respond to the needs of those who seek assistance
A Warm Meal and a Bed: Intersections of Housing and Food Security in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the relationships between housing, food security, and health. We begin by reviewing the current literature on the intersections of housing and food security, emphasizing the current gaps in knowledge in the areas of building infrastructure, in-house food programs, and building context for social housing. Derived from the literature review, we present a model designed to highlight the relationships between…
Exploring Public Health’s roles and limitations in advancing food security in British Columbia
The privileged normalization of marijuana use – an analysis of Canadian newspaper reporting, 1997–2007
The objective of this study was to systematically examine predominant themes within mainstream media reporting about marijuana use in Canada. To ascertain the themes present in major Canadian newspaper reports, a sample ( N = 1999) of articles published between 1997 and 2007 was analyzed. Drawing from Manning's theory of the symbolic framing of drug use within media, it is argued that a discourse of 'privileged normalization' informs portrayals o…
Integrating food security into public health and provincial government departments in British Columbia, Canada
Food safety at the small scale: The case of meat inspection regulations in British Columbia's rural and remote communities
Climate Change and Health in British Columbia: Projected Impacts and a Proposed Agenda for Adaptation Research and Policy
This is a case study describing how climate change may affect the health of British Columbians and to suggest a way forward to promote health and policy research, and adaptation to these changes. After reviewing the limited evidence of the impacts of climate change on human health we have developed five principles to guide the development of research and policy to better predict future impacts of climate change on health and to enhance adaptation…
A Health and Nutritional Evaluation of Changes in Agriculture in the Past Quarter Century in British Columbia: Implications for Food Security
This paper describes change in local food production in British Columbia with a focus on changes in the production of foods recommended for increased consumption by nutritionists. We determine, in one of the most productive agricultural provinces in Canada, whether secular trends in agricultural land use and food production, over the past quarter century, have resulted in increased production of foods recommended by nutritionists as more healthy …
Was Thomas McKeown right for the wrong reasons
Thomas McKeown was right in his primary claim that changing environments, rather than improved medical care, were responsible for much of the long wave of historical mortality decline in the UK since 1700. He was, however, apparently unaware that the beginning of the decline in infant and early-childhood mortality lagged behind that for adults by a few decades, and therefore that its causes might have been fundamentally different. In fact, curren…
Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Research in Action: Advances and Challenges
A case control study of differences in non-work injury and accidents among sawmill workers in rural compared to urban British Columbia, Canada
In a relatively homogenous group of workers, and using a rigorous study design, we have demonstrated that the odds of other non-work injury are much higher for workers resident in and migrating to rural regions of Canada than they are for workers resident in or migrating to urban places
Regions, hospitals and health outcomes over time: A multi-level analysis of repeat prevalence among a cohort of health-care workers
Job strain — Attributable depression in a sample of working Australians: Assessing the contribution to health inequalities
Job strain and associated depression risks represent a substantial, preventable, and inequitably distributed public health problem. The social patterning of job strain-attributable depression parallels the social patterning of mental illness, suggesting that job strain is an important contributor to mental health inequalities. The numbers of compensated 'mental stress' claims compared to job strain-attributable depression cases suggest that there…
Paternal psychosocial work conditions and mental health outcomes: A case-control study
This study provides support to the tenet that being exposed to paternal work stress during childhood can have long lasting effects on the mental health of individuals
A Systematic Review of the Job-stress Intervention Evaluation Literature, 1990–2005
Bringing home the right to food in Canada: Challenges and possibilities for achieving food security
We offer a critique of Canada's approach to domestic food security with respect to international agreements, justiciability and case law, the breakdown of the public safety net, the institutionalisation of charitable approaches to food insecurity, and the need for ‘joined-up’ food and nutrition policies. We examined Canada's commitments to the right to food, as well as Canadian policies, case law and social trends, in order to assess Canada's per…
Barriers to STI testing among youth in a Canadian oil and gas community
Work, Obesity, and Occupational Safety and Health
There is increasing evidence that obesity and overweight may be related, in part, to adverse work conditions. In particular, the risk of obesity may increase in high-demand, low-control work environments, and for those who work long hours. In addition, obesity may modify the risk for vibration-induced injury and certain occupational musculoskeletal disorders. We hypothesized that obesity may also be a co–risk factor for the development of occupat…
Food Sales Outlets, Food Availability, and the Extent of Nutrition Policy Implementation in Schools in British Columbia
Psychosocial and other working conditions in relation to body mass index in a representative sample of Australian workers
Among men and women the were differing patterns of both exposures to psychosocial working conditions and associations with BMI. Among men, working long hours was positively associated with higher BMI and this association was partly independent of job stress. Among men physical demand was negatively associated with BMI and this association was independent of job stress
Putting Food on the Public Health Table: Making Food Security Relevant to Regional Health Authorities
An analysis of the development of Canadian food fortification policies: The case of vitamin B
The concept of fortification, or the deliberate addition of synthetic vitamins to food, arose for the first time in Canada during the 1930s. The availability of new technology introduced a debate over the merits of food fortification as a tool to improve the nutritional health of the population. Through the use of two case studies, vitamin B(1) (thiamin) in the 1930s and vitamin B(9) (folic acid) in the 1990s, this paper examines the development …
The interplay of public health and economics in the early development of nutrition policy in Canada
In the 1920s in Canada, the Federal Government's Division of Child Welfare issued the nation's first dietary guidelines aimed at encouraging women to breastfeed and also, somewhat ambivalently, encouraging women to feed cow's milk to babies over nine months of age. The early 1920s was a time of transition in milk processing and distribution. Some cities and provinces had strong sanitary hygiene laws to ensure that milk was free of disease and con…
A comparison between the effort-reward imbalance and demand control models
Future work should explore the combined effects of these two models of psychosocial stress at work on health more thoroughly
Gender, work roles and psychosocial work characteristics as determinants of health
Barriers to STI testing among youth in a Canadian oil and gas community
Integrating food security into public health and provincial government departments in British Columbia, Canada
Food safety at the small scale: The case of meat inspection regulations in British Columbia's rural and remote communities
Work, Obesity, and Occupational Safety and Health
There is increasing evidence that obesity and overweight may be related, in part, to adverse work conditions. In particular, the risk of obesity may increase in high-demand, low-control work environments, and for those who work long hours. In addition, obesity may modify the risk for vibration-induced injury and certain occupational musculoskeletal disorders. We hypothesized that obesity may also be a co–risk factor for the development of occupat…
A Warm Meal and a Bed: Intersections of Housing and Food Security in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the relationships between housing, food security, and health. We begin by reviewing the current literature on the intersections of housing and food security, emphasizing the current gaps in knowledge in the areas of building infrastructure, in-house food programs, and building context for social housing. Derived from the literature review, we present a model designed to highlight the relationships between…
Food Sales Outlets, Food Availability, and the Extent of Nutrition Policy Implementation in Schools in British Columbia
The New International Trade Regime: Problems for Publicly Funded Healthcare in Canada
Opportunities for a Broader Understanding of Work and Health: Multiple Uses of an Occupational Cohort Database
Canadian Health Care and the State: A Century of Evolution
Opportunities for a Broader Understanding of Work and Health: Multiple Uses of an Occupational Cohort Database
Gender, work roles and psychosocial work characteristics as determinants of health
The History of Injury and Industrial Disease Rates in British Columbia from 1950 to 1996
Effects of de-industrialization on unemployment, re-employment, and work conditions in a manufacturing workforce
This study shows that future health studies should pay particular attention to long-term employees in manufacturing who may have gone through de-industrialization resulting in exposures to a combination of sustained job insecurity, cyclical unemployment, and adverse physical and psychosocial work conditions
The New International Trade Regime: Problems for Publicly Funded Healthcare in Canada
The interplay of public health and economics in the early development of nutrition policy in Canada
In the 1920s in Canada, the Federal Government's Division of Child Welfare issued the nation's first dietary guidelines aimed at encouraging women to breastfeed and also, somewhat ambivalently, encouraging women to feed cow's milk to babies over nine months of age. The early 1920s was a time of transition in milk processing and distribution. Some cities and provinces had strong sanitary hygiene laws to ensure that milk was free of disease and con…
A comparison between the effort-reward imbalance and demand control models
Future work should explore the combined effects of these two models of psychosocial stress at work on health more thoroughly
The interplay of public health and economics in the early development of nutrition policy in Canada
In the 1920s in Canada, the Federal Government's Division of Child Welfare issued the nation's first dietary guidelines aimed at encouraging women to breastfeed and also, somewhat ambivalently, encouraging women to feed cow's milk to babies over nine months of age. The early 1920s was a time of transition in milk processing and distribution. Some cities and provinces had strong sanitary hygiene laws to ensure that milk was free of disease and con…
The Establishment of a National System of Food Inspection in Canada
An analysis of the development of Canadian food fortification policies: The case of vitamin B
The concept of fortification, or the deliberate addition of synthetic vitamins to food, arose for the first time in Canada during the 1930s. The availability of new technology introduced a debate over the merits of food fortification as a tool to improve the nutritional health of the population. Through the use of two case studies, vitamin B(1) (thiamin) in the 1930s and vitamin B(9) (folic acid) in the 1990s, this paper examines the development …
Psychosocial and other working conditions in relation to body mass index in a representative sample of Australian workers
Among men and women the were differing patterns of both exposures to psychosocial working conditions and associations with BMI. Among men, working long hours was positively associated with higher BMI and this association was partly independent of job stress. Among men physical demand was negatively associated with BMI and this association was independent of job stress
Putting Food on the Public Health Table: Making Food Security Relevant to Regional Health Authorities
A Systematic Review of the Job-stress Intervention Evaluation Literature, 1990–2005
Bringing home the right to food in Canada: Challenges and possibilities for achieving food security
We offer a critique of Canada's approach to domestic food security with respect to international agreements, justiciability and case law, the breakdown of the public safety net, the institutionalisation of charitable approaches to food insecurity, and the need for ‘joined-up’ food and nutrition policies. We examined Canada's commitments to the right to food, as well as Canadian policies, case law and social trends, in order to assess Canada's per…
Barriers to STI testing among youth in a Canadian oil and gas community
Work, Obesity, and Occupational Safety and Health
There is increasing evidence that obesity and overweight may be related, in part, to adverse work conditions. In particular, the risk of obesity may increase in high-demand, low-control work environments, and for those who work long hours. In addition, obesity may modify the risk for vibration-induced injury and certain occupational musculoskeletal disorders. We hypothesized that obesity may also be a co–risk factor for the development of occupat…
Food Sales Outlets, Food Availability, and the Extent of Nutrition Policy Implementation in Schools in British Columbia
Job strain — Attributable depression in a sample of working Australians: Assessing the contribution to health inequalities
Job strain and associated depression risks represent a substantial, preventable, and inequitably distributed public health problem. The social patterning of job strain-attributable depression parallels the social patterning of mental illness, suggesting that job strain is an important contributor to mental health inequalities. The numbers of compensated 'mental stress' claims compared to job strain-attributable depression cases suggest that there…
Paternal psychosocial work conditions and mental health outcomes: A case-control study
This study provides support to the tenet that being exposed to paternal work stress during childhood can have long lasting effects on the mental health of individuals
A case control study of differences in non-work injury and accidents among sawmill workers in rural compared to urban British Columbia, Canada
In a relatively homogenous group of workers, and using a rigorous study design, we have demonstrated that the odds of other non-work injury are much higher for workers resident in and migrating to rural regions of Canada than they are for workers resident in or migrating to urban places
Regions, hospitals and health outcomes over time: A multi-level analysis of repeat prevalence among a cohort of health-care workers
Climate Change and Health in British Columbia: Projected Impacts and a Proposed Agenda for Adaptation Research and Policy
This is a case study describing how climate change may affect the health of British Columbians and to suggest a way forward to promote health and policy research, and adaptation to these changes. After reviewing the limited evidence of the impacts of climate change on human health we have developed five principles to guide the development of research and policy to better predict future impacts of climate change on health and to enhance adaptation…
A Health and Nutritional Evaluation of Changes in Agriculture in the Past Quarter Century in British Columbia: Implications for Food Security
This paper describes change in local food production in British Columbia with a focus on changes in the production of foods recommended for increased consumption by nutritionists. We determine, in one of the most productive agricultural provinces in Canada, whether secular trends in agricultural land use and food production, over the past quarter century, have resulted in increased production of foods recommended by nutritionists as more healthy …
Was Thomas McKeown right for the wrong reasons
Thomas McKeown was right in his primary claim that changing environments, rather than improved medical care, were responsible for much of the long wave of historical mortality decline in the UK since 1700. He was, however, apparently unaware that the beginning of the decline in infant and early-childhood mortality lagged behind that for adults by a few decades, and therefore that its causes might have been fundamentally different. In fact, curren…
Medicine (25 works) · Environmental health (16 works) · Public health (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Food security (8 works)