Maria Chiu

Biographic Data

ID5413310
NAMEMaria Chiu
GIVEN NAMESMaria
FAMILY NAMEChiu
SIGNATURECHIU M
AFFILIATIONSPublic Health Ontario
ORCID0000-0002-3877-1068
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Identifying patients with obesity from health administrative data

    Open AccessMaria C Cusimano, Nancy N Baxter et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2025References: 23

  • New and continuing physician-based outpatient mental health care among children and adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

    Open AccessAlène Toulany, Simone N Vigod et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    In the 18 months following onset of the pandemic, outpatient mental health care utilization increased for those with new and continuing care needs, especially among females and adolescents

  • Temporal trends in cardiovascular disease risk factor profiles in a population-based schizophrenia sample

    Maria Chiu, Irena Sremić et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2018References: 35

    Individuals with schizophrenia had a greater prevalence of individual and multiple CVD risk factors compared with those without schizophrenia, which persisted over time. Our findings suggest that public health efforts to reduce the burden of CVD risk factors have not been as effective in the schizophrenia population, thus highlighting the need for more targeted interventions and prevention strategies

  • Self-rated health and mental health of lone fathers compared with lone mothers and partnered fathers

    Maria Chiu, Farah Rahman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2017Cited by: 3References: 27

    BACKGROUND: Lone parenthood is associated with poorer health; however, the vast majority of previous studies have examined lone mothers and only a few have focused on lone fathers. We aimed to examine the self-rated health and mental health status among a large population-based cross-sectional sample of Canadian lone fathers compared with both partnered fathers and lone mothers. METHODS: We investigated differences in self-rated health and mental…

  • Nutritional quality of food items on fast-food ‘kids’ menus’

    Open AccessErin Hobin, Christine White et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective To compare energy (calories), total and saturated fats, and Na levels for ‘kids’ menu’ food items offered by four leading multinational fast-food chains across five countries. Design A content analysis was used to create a profile of the nutritional content of food items on kids’ menus available for lunch and dinner in four leading fast-food chains in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. Setting Food items from kids’ menu…