Kevin M Gorey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4251068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin M Gorey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorey |
| SIGNATURE | GOREY K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Windsor |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1870-6549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 43 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Diabetes and the Hispanic Health Paradox
These findings highlight the nuanced and paradoxical protective effects of Hispanic ethnicity on diabetes risk
Indigenous Peoples’ Relative Risk of Homicide in the USA
Evidence suggests that Indigenous Peoples have the highest rate of death by homicide compared to other ethnic groups in the USA. Despite this alarming disparity and its fatal implications, there seems little attention paid to this crisis outside of Indigenous communities, and literature on the violence perpetrated against this population is comparatively scarce. Among the 574 federally recognized tribes and 326 reservations across the USA, there …
Individual and community predictors of arrests in Canada
This survey of a national Canadian sample examines the associations between individual- and community-level factors with arrest by police. Indigenous Peoples were more than twice as likely to have been arrested than White people. Indigenous Peoples living in Indigenous enclaves were nearly five times as likely to be arrested than White people in similar communities. And Indigenous females who lived in Indigenous enclaves were nearly 20 times more…
Islamic religiosity and subjective well-being in the west
Contemporary diasporas have brought many Muslims to the predominantly Judeo-Christian West. These have been attended by prevalent mistrust, stigmatization and, discrimination, especially against Muslim women, many of whom are visibly identifiable by their hijabs. Such factors pose clear risks to their mental health and well-being. Protective religiosity-subjective well-being associations are well known among Christians and Jews, but not among Mus…
Structural Violence Perpetrated Against Indigenous Peoples in Canadian Criminal Courts
Social justice entails opposing discrimination and working towards eliminating structuralviolence. The problem of overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples across Canada’s criminaljustice system, a site of structural violence, has persisted for decades. Most studies uncoveredthrough this review and meta-analysis indicated Indigenous disadvantage in criminal sentencing.Specifically, Indigenous peoples were at much greater risk of receiving punitive…
Preventive Impacts of Group Homes in Higher Income Neighborhoods
Employment discrimination faced by Muslim women wearing the hijab
This study tested the hypothesis that Muslim women who wear the hijab are disadvantaged in employment processes relative to their counterparts who do not wear the hijab. A meta-analysis synthesized the findings of seven studies published between 2010 and 2020. The sample-weighted, pooled estimate among the most internally valid, experimental studies suggested that the chances of being hired and so gainfully employed were 40% lower among Muslim wo…
Relative Effectiveness of Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Anxious or Depressed Young People
Global estimates suggest that 25% and 20% of youth have reported elevated symptoms of depression and anxiety, respectively, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to baseline functioning (Racine et al., 2021). Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been found to significantly benefit young people experiencing anxiety and depression (Christ et al., 2020). Pandemic-related protocols have led many mental health services to shift to o…
Prevalent posttraumatic stress disorder among emergency department personnel
This research review synthesized the evidence on the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder among emergency department personnel in Canada and the USA. No previous such synthesis, specific to this crucial aspect of North American health care had previously been published. Broad keyword searches of interdisciplinary research databases, both peer-reviewed and grey, retrieved 10 surveys published between 1996 and 2019. Their outcomes were synth…
Healthcare avoidance due to anticipated discrimination among transgender people
Transgender people encounter interpersonal and structural barriers to healthcare access that contribute to their postponement or avoidance of healthcare, which can lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes. Using the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, this study examined avoidance of healthcare due to anticipated discrimination among transgender adults aged 25 to 64 ( N = 19,157). Multivariable logistic regression analysis was conducted to test…
Homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 1
According to the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers are called to engage in political activity at the micro, mezzo and macro levels for the advancement of social justice and human rights.NASW has mechanisms in place to aggregate the voices of individual social workers through political activity.Drawing on a model of civic voluntarism, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of political activity on decisions by Texas social workers to jo…
Multiplicative Advantages of Hispanic Men Living in Hispanic Enclaves
We examined Hispanic enclave paradoxical effects on cancer care among socioeconomically vulnerable people in pre-Obamacare California. We conducted a secondary analysis of a historical cohort of 511 Hispanic and 1,753 non-Hispanic white people with colon cancer. Hispanic enclaves were neighborhoods where 40% or more of the residents were Hispanic, mostly first-generation Mexican American immigrants. An interaction of ethnicity, gender and Hispani…
Peer influences moderated by group home size
Chinese enclave protections among married Chinese American women
Objective: Like the barrio advantage theory related to Mexican Americans, a theory about the protective effects of Chinese American enclaves is developing. Such protections were examined among socioeconomically vulnerable people with colon cancer. Design: A colon cancer cohort established in California between 1995 and 2000, and followed until the enactment of the Affordable Care Act was utilized in this study. Secondary analysis was conducted on…
Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders are common among Hispanic people. Evidence-based guidelines indicate cognitive-behavioral interventions (CBI), but they were developed primarily with non-Hispanic white (NHW) people. This rapid scoping review and meta-analysis clarified the relative effectiveness of CBI with Hispanics and NHW people with anxiety disorders and explored the clinical effects of cultural modifications among Hispanic people. Evidence from nine studie…
Colon cancer care and survival
Poverty and health insurance were more predictive in the USA, community physician supplies more so in Canada. Canada's primary care protections were greatest among the most socioeconomically vulnerable. The protective effects of Canadian health care prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) clearly suggested the following. Notwithstanding the importance of insuring all, strengthening America's system of primary care will probably be the…
Breast Cancer among Women Living in Poverty
This historical study estimated the protective effects of a universally accessible, single-payer health care system versus a multi-payer system that leaves many uninsured or underinsured by comparing breast cancer care of women living in high poverty neighborhoods in Ontario or California between 1996 and 2011. Women in Canada experienced better care particularly as compared to women who were inadequately insured in the United States. Women in Ca…
Care and Survival of Mexican American Women with Node Negative Breast Cancer
Mediation of the effects of living in extremely poor neighborhoods by health insurance
America's multi-tiered health insurance system mediates the quality of breast cancer care. The system is inequitable and unjust as it advantages the well insured and the well to do. Recent health care reforms ought to be enacted in ways that are consistent with their federal legislative intent, that high quality health care be truly available to all
Effects of being uninsured or underinsured and living in extremely poor neighborhoods on colon cancer care and survival in California
Health insurance substantially mediates the quality of colon cancer care and poverty seems to make the effects of being uninsured or underinsured even worse, especially among women in the United States. These findings are consistent with the theory that more facilitative social and economic capital is available in more affluent neighborhoods, where women with colon cancer may be better able to absorb the indirect and direct, but uncovered, costs …
Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Colon Cancer Treatment Accessibility and Survival in Toronto, Ontario, and San Francisco, California, 1996–2006
Objectives. We examined the differential effects of socioeconomic status on colon cancer care and survival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and San Francisco, California. Methods. We analyzed registry data for colon cancer patients from Ontario (n = 930) and California (n = 1014), diagnosed between 1996 and 2000 and followed until 2006, on stage, surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and survival. We obtained socioeconomic data for individuals’ residences …
Breast cancer care in the Canada and the United States
Cancer Survival in Ontario, 1986–2003
The impact of 9/11 on the association of ambient air pollution with daily respiratory hospital admissions in a Canada‐US border city, Windsor, Ontario
The 11 September 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks in the United States resulted in long lines of trucks at the border crossing in Windsor, Ontario. Public concern about the potential impact of these trucks spewing toxic pollutants into the air drew attention to the need to investigate the impact of 9/11 on the daily levels of air pollutants and respiratory hospitalization. In this study, significant increases in respiratory admissions were found one…
An international comparison of cancer survival
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether socioeconomic status has a differential effect on the survival of adults diagnosed with cancer in Canada and the United States. METHODS: The Ontario Cancer Registry and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program provided a total of 58,202 and 76,055 population-based primary malignant cancer cases for Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Mich, respectively. Socioecon…
Employment discrimination faced by Muslim women wearing the hijab
This study tested the hypothesis that Muslim women who wear the hijab are disadvantaged in employment processes relative to their counterparts who do not wear the hijab. A meta-analysis synthesized the findings of seven studies published between 2010 and 2020. The sample-weighted, pooled estimate among the most internally valid, experimental studies suggested that the chances of being hired and so gainfully employed were 40% lower among Muslim wo…
Differential Effectiveness of Prevalent Social Work Practice Models
This meta-analysis of 45 recently published (1990–1994) independent studies of social work's differential effectiveness by prevalent practice models builds on the more general findings of related meta-analyses that have estimated that three-quarters of the clients who participate in social work interventions do better than the average client who does not. It found that the effectiveness of interventions based on different practice models—personal…
An International Comparison of Cancer Survival
Unpublished social work research
Journal Article Unpublished social work research: Systematic replication of a recent meta-analysis of published intervention effectiveness research Get access Gregory A. de Smidt, BS, Gregory A. de Smidt, BS BSW candidate School of Social Work, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kevin M. Gorey, PhD, MSW Kevin…
The effectiveness of social work with older people and their families
Journal Article The effectiveness of social work with older people and their families: A meta-analysis of conference proceedings Get access Amanda M. Grenier, BSW, Amanda M. Grenier, BSW MSW candidate School of Social Work, McGill University, 3506 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kevin M. Gorey Kevin M. Gorey associate professor Social Work Program, Univer…
Prevalent Low Income Status in Canadian and United States Metropolitan Areas, 1980 and 1990
As compared to Toronto’s poor people, three to four-fold as many of upstate New York’s poor live in severely impoverished neighborhoods, areas where 40% or more of the residents have annual incomes below the federally established low income or poverty criterion. However, the prevalence of such extremely degraded living conditions increased similarly (two-fold) on both sides of the Canadian-US border during the 1980s. This urban problem, of the co…
Effectiveness of Case Management with Severely andPersistently Mentally Ill People
Homelessness among Indigenous peoples in Canada
Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Colon Cancer Treatment Accessibility and Survival in Toronto, Ontario, and San Francisco, California, 1996–2006
Objectives. We examined the differential effects of socioeconomic status on colon cancer care and survival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and San Francisco, California. Methods. We analyzed registry data for colon cancer patients from Ontario (n = 930) and California (n = 1014), diagnosed between 1996 and 2000 and followed until 2006, on stage, surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and survival. We obtained socioeconomic data for individuals’ residences …
Breast cancer care in the Canada and the United States
Debate with Authors
Effectiveness of social work intervention research
This meta-analytic review synthesizes the findings of 88 recent (1990 to 1994) independent studies of the effectiveness of social work interventions and compares the findings of those studies based on authors' assessments of their practice experience (internal evaluations) and other evaluators' assessments (external evaluations). Overall, social work interventions are effective; three-quarters of the clients who participate in social work interve…
Diabetes and the Hispanic Health Paradox
These findings highlight the nuanced and paradoxical protective effects of Hispanic ethnicity on diabetes risk
Indigenous Peoples’ Relative Risk of Homicide in the USA
Evidence suggests that Indigenous Peoples have the highest rate of death by homicide compared to other ethnic groups in the USA. Despite this alarming disparity and its fatal implications, there seems little attention paid to this crisis outside of Indigenous communities, and literature on the violence perpetrated against this population is comparatively scarce. Among the 574 federally recognized tribes and 326 reservations across the USA, there …
Individual and community predictors of arrests in Canada
This survey of a national Canadian sample examines the associations between individual- and community-level factors with arrest by police. Indigenous Peoples were more than twice as likely to have been arrested than White people. Indigenous Peoples living in Indigenous enclaves were nearly five times as likely to be arrested than White people in similar communities. And Indigenous females who lived in Indigenous enclaves were nearly 20 times more…
Peer influences moderated by group home size
Breast Cancer among Women Living in Poverty
This historical study estimated the protective effects of a universally accessible, single-payer health care system versus a multi-payer system that leaves many uninsured or underinsured by comparing breast cancer care of women living in high poverty neighborhoods in Ontario or California between 1996 and 2011. Women in Canada experienced better care particularly as compared to women who were inadequately insured in the United States. Women in Ca…
Cancer Survival in Ontario, 1986–2003
Air Pollution and Daily Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular Diseases in Windsor, Ontario
The pooling of impoverishment from 1980 to 1990 in inner-city neighborhoods
The pooling of impoverishment from 1980 to 1990 in inner-city neighborhoods: A census-based analysis of upstate New York metropolitan areas Kevin M. Gorey, PhD, Kevin M. Gorey, PhD Assistant Professor School of Social Work University of Windsor401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4e-mail: [email protected] The authors acknowledge the helpful assistance provided by Nancy Krieger (Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Oakland, CA), Richa…
Prevalent Department of Social Services’ Client Satisfaction
This successive cross-sectional or panel study evaluated the City of Windsor’s Department of Social Services, specifically, the Special Services and Children’s Services Branches from 1990 to 1994. Their programs were assessed with quantitative (consumer satisfaction questionnaire, CSQ-8, score range = 8 to 32 [Larsen, Attkisson, Hargreaves, & Nguyen, 1979]) and qualitative (e.g., open-coded queries about what they liked most and least about the s…
Effectiveness of social work intervention research
This meta-analytic review synthesizes the findings of 88 recent (1990 to 1994) independent studies of the effectiveness of social work interventions and compares the findings of those studies based on authors' assessments of their practice experience (internal evaluations) and other evaluators' assessments (external evaluations). Overall, social work interventions are effective; three-quarters of the clients who participate in social work interve…
Unpublished social work research
Journal Article Unpublished social work research: Systematic replication of a recent meta-analysis of published intervention effectiveness research Get access Gregory A. de Smidt, BS, Gregory A. de Smidt, BS BSW candidate School of Social Work, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kevin M. Gorey, PhD, MSW Kevin…
Group Work Intervention with Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Closed process groups (15 sessions) cofacilitated by experienced post-MSW female social workers within a generalist problem-solving framework were offered to 115 survivors of childhood sexual abuse. This quasi-experimental study compared group work intervention with a waiting-list comparison group on measures of depression and self-esteem. Survivors who completed the group work intervention (86.6%) were significantly less depressed and had signif…
An international comparison of cancer survival
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether socioeconomic status has a differential effect on the survival of adults diagnosed with cancer in Canada and the United States. METHODS: The Ontario Cancer Registry and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program provided a total of 58,202 and 76,055 population-based primary malignant cancer cases for Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Mich, respectively. Socioecon…
The Beneficial Effects of Volunteering for Older Volunteers and the People They Serve
The current political-economic climate, which is generally supportive of both private and public sector down-sizing, increasingly demands that human service workers assess, engage, and creatively use consumer strengths and resources. This meta-analysis of thirty-seven independent studies provided the means of inferring not only that elder volunteers' sense of well-being seemed to be significantly bolstered through volunteering, but also that such…
The effectiveness of social work with older people and their families
Journal Article The effectiveness of social work with older people and their families: A meta-analysis of conference proceedings Get access Amanda M. Grenier, BSW, Amanda M. Grenier, BSW MSW candidate School of Social Work, McGill University, 3506 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kevin M. Gorey Kevin M. Gorey associate professor Social Work Program, Univer…
Gorey and Holowaty Respond
Gorey and Holowaty Respond Kevin M. Gorey, and Eric J. Holowaty CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.10.1556-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Differential Effectiveness of Prevalent Social Work Practice Models
This meta-analysis of 45 recently published (1990–1994) independent studies of social work's differential effectiveness by prevalent practice models builds on the more general findings of related meta-analyses that have estimated that three-quarters of the clients who participate in social work interventions do better than the average client who does not. It found that the effectiveness of interventions based on different practice models—personal…
Prevalent Low Income Status in Canadian and United States Metropolitan Areas, 1980 and 1990
As compared to Toronto’s poor people, three to four-fold as many of upstate New York’s poor live in severely impoverished neighborhoods, areas where 40% or more of the residents have annual incomes below the federally established low income or poverty criterion. However, the prevalence of such extremely degraded living conditions increased similarly (two-fold) on both sides of the Canadian-US border during the 1980s. This urban problem, of the co…
Effectiveness of Case Management with Severely andPersistently Mentally Ill People
An International Comparison of Cancer Survival
The Bell Curve
Journal Article The Bell Curve: Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Work Get access Kevin M. Gorey, MSW, PhD, Kevin M. Gorey, MSW, PhD associate professor Social Work Program, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Arthur G. Cryns, PhD Arthur G. Cryns, PhD professor emeritus and adjunct professo…
Debate with Authors
The Effectiveness of Feminist Social Work Methods
This integrative review of the effectiveness of feminist social work methods compared 35 independent studies of feminist interventions with 44 independent studies of social work practice that were based on other theoretical orientations. Feminist interventions were observed to be more effective than those based on other practice models. And among feminist social work interventions, radical methods seemed to be more effective than liberal methods.…
Air pollution and daily hospitalization rates for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in London, Ontario
In this paper, we examine the role that ambient air pollution plays in exacerbating cardiovascular and respiratory disease hospitalization in London, Ontario from 1 November 1995 to 31 December 2000. The number of daily cardiac and respiratory admissions was linked to concentrations of air pollutants (sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, coefficient of haze, PM(10)) and weather variables (maximum and minimum of temperature a…
Air Pollution and Daily Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular Diseases in Windsor, Ontario
The impact of 9/11 on the association of ambient air pollution with daily respiratory hospital admissions in a Canada‐US border city, Windsor, Ontario
The 11 September 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks in the United States resulted in long lines of trucks at the border crossing in Windsor, Ontario. Public concern about the potential impact of these trucks spewing toxic pollutants into the air drew attention to the need to investigate the impact of 9/11 on the daily levels of air pollutants and respiratory hospitalization. In this study, significant increases in respiratory admissions were found one…
Cancer Survival in Ontario, 1986–2003
Breast cancer care in the Canada and the United States
Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Colon Cancer Treatment Accessibility and Survival in Toronto, Ontario, and San Francisco, California, 1996–2006
Objectives. We examined the differential effects of socioeconomic status on colon cancer care and survival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and San Francisco, California. Methods. We analyzed registry data for colon cancer patients from Ontario (n = 930) and California (n = 1014), diagnosed between 1996 and 2000 and followed until 2006, on stage, surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and survival. We obtained socioeconomic data for individuals’ residences …
Effects of being uninsured or underinsured and living in extremely poor neighborhoods on colon cancer care and survival in California
Health insurance substantially mediates the quality of colon cancer care and poverty seems to make the effects of being uninsured or underinsured even worse, especially among women in the United States. These findings are consistent with the theory that more facilitative social and economic capital is available in more affluent neighborhoods, where women with colon cancer may be better able to absorb the indirect and direct, but uncovered, costs …
Care and Survival of Mexican American Women with Node Negative Breast Cancer
Mediation of the effects of living in extremely poor neighborhoods by health insurance
America's multi-tiered health insurance system mediates the quality of breast cancer care. The system is inequitable and unjust as it advantages the well insured and the well to do. Recent health care reforms ought to be enacted in ways that are consistent with their federal legislative intent, that high quality health care be truly available to all
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