Mark W Rosenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 94438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark W Rosenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark W |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENBERG M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 524 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 97 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
A study of involuntary rural migrants from the three Gorges dam: Lessons to be learned in a world hungry for energy
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…
Machine learning identification of influencing factors of global Nation-Level hypertension prevalence
Hypertension remains a critical global public health challenge, with its complex etiology poorly captured by traditional linear models, especially regarding macro-level structural and gender-specific drivers. To address this, we employed an interpretable machine learning framework, combining XGBoost with SHAP and bootstrap resampling. This approach analyzed a global, nation-level panel dataset from 190 countries (1990-2019) across four macro dime…
Environmental health, economy, and amenities interactively drive migration patterns among China's older people
The increasing number of older adult migrants is rapidly changing regional demographic and social structures in China. There is an urgent need to understand the spatial patterns and factors that influence older adults to migrate, especially the role of environmental health. However, this issue has been under-studied. This study focused on intra-provincial and inter-provincial older adult migrants as research subjects, estimated their spatial conc…
‘We are left behind to suffer’: Examining the lived experiences of left-behind older adults in the Upper West Region of Ghana
Using semi-structured interviews and sharing circles, this study explores the everyday experiences of older people left behind in Ghana’s Upper West Region. A thematic analytical technique was used to analyse the data. Seven key themes emerged: access to social support; caregiving burden; abuse and discrimination; ill health; increased dependence on available institutional support programs; and personal coping strategies. Our findings suggest tha…
"Rural transformation and the future of China's "granary: A perspective on livelihood trajectories
Negotiating precarity: Recent immigrants’ perceptions of waiting for public healthcare in Ontario, Canada
Exploring the Climate Temperature Effects on Settlement Intentions of Older Migrants: Evidence from China
Permanent migration across provinces in China has become an important strategy for Chinese older people to respond to a temperature-unfriendly place of residence in late life. However, the relation between temperature effects and permanent settlements of older migrants remains unclear. Based on the data obtained from China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper examined how four temperature effects (i.e., cold effect, heat effect, temperature gap ef…
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…
Whose ethics of care? The geographies of live‐in elder care in China
Reflecting on different theoretical premises within geographies of care, this paper develops their connections and responds to the normativity and universalism in care literature through conceptualising live‐in elder care (LEC). Considering the relationality of differential contributions to care, we propose a conceptualisation of multiple interrelated approaches by: (1) extending the critical frameworks of care to understand the broader frames of…
What does community‐embedded care mean to aging‐in‐place in China? A relational approach
Transitioning towards community‐based alternatives for service provision, health geographers have turned their gaze towards the changing meanings of place across dynamic landscapes for older people. Yet, little is known about how such a transition has manifested as a new phenomenon in a non‐western country, within a variegated geo‐historical context. Using a relational approach, this paper examines what it means to embed care services in a commun…
Changes in everyday life of rural China: A Perspective of Mobilities
This article aims to examine how rural everyday life has changed in the Chinese context in response to the process of urbanisation. Drawing on a mobilities perspective, changes in everyday life are represented by spatial mobilities and the impacts of social mobilities on them are assessed at a household level. Employing rural survey data for 2007 and 2017 conducted in Jianghan Plain, China, results reveal that everyday life in central rural China…
Social Frailty and Depression Among Older Adults in Ghana: Insights from the WHO Sage Surveys
In this study, we examine the association between social frailty and depression among older adults in Ghana over time. We employed longitudinal data analysis to examine the association between social frailty, socioeconomic status and depression using data from the WHO-SAGE survey. Our descriptive and cross-tabulation analyses show that the prevalence of depression and social frailty among older adults decreased considerably in 2014/2015 compared …
‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral “stickiness“ of binary gender
This paper develops a visceral feminist geography of the gym to expand our understanding of how everyday physical activity environments are implicated in the gendered context of physical activity. The gender gap in physical activity is well-documented, with women around the world less likely than men to meet the minimum physical activity recommendations for health. Fitness gyms are popular venues for physical activity, but they are not necessaril…
A commentary on clinical geography: A proposal to embrace space, place and wellbeing through person-centred practice
Commentary on Clinical Geography: A Proposal to Embrace Space, Place and Wellbeing through Person-Centred Practice
Bonding social capital and health within four First Nations communities in Canada: A cross-sectional study
To date, research on social capital in Indigenous contexts has been scarce. In this quantitative study, our objectives were to (1): Describe bonding social capital within four distinct First Nations communities in Canada, and (2) Explore the associations between bonding social capital and self-rated health in these communities. With community permission, cross-sectional data were drawn from the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds study…
Moving around a Large City in Latin America: The Mobility Challenges Faced by Older Adults with Disabilities
A growing body of research has shown that barriers in the urban environment can be disabling by reducing the ability of older people to manage independently in the community, but also because they can negatively affect health by limiting the possibilities to move outside the home. In this study, we ask how obstacles in the urban environment are associated with the need for help to go to places in the community. To respond to this question, we use…
Accessibility of Rural Life Space on the Jianghan Plain, China: The Role of Livelihood
This article aims to contribute to the relationship between accessibility of rural life space and rural livelihood capital and transitions in rural central China. Employing data produced from a household survey, we developed a composite index for accessibility of rural life space incorporating spatial and temporal attributes of a household's daily activities and then explored the mediation effect of rural livelihood capital and transitions on acc…
They Do Not Care about Us Anymore”: Understanding the Situation of Older People in Ghana
While existing research acknowledges copious challenges faced by older adults (people aged 60 and over) in Ghana and most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, they fail to situate the lived experiences of this vulnerable group within the broader context of health geography and public health. This paper draws insights from ecological systems theory and the "geographies of older people" literature to examine the lived experiences of older people in Gha…
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…
Old friend and powerful cadre”: Doctor-patient relationships and multi-dimensional therapeutic landscapes in China's primary hospitals
Creating therapeutic spaces for the public: Elderly exercisers as leaders in urban China
It is becoming increasingly crucial to consider the design and construction of ‘age-friendly” and “healthy” cities to accommodate the world’s changing demographic. We propose a conceptual framework through which urban open spaces are transformed into “therapeutic public spaces”. Following eight months of fieldwork in public parks in two Chinese cities, we found that the assemblage of physical and social elements, as well as elderly people’s perfo…
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
Narrative analysis as a strategy for understanding interview talk in geographic research
Narrative analysis produces strategies to inform the conduct, interpretation and presentation of interview talk, and encourages and enables researchers to take account of research participants’ own evaluations. We suggest this to be a useful method for geographers because it focuses on how people talk about and evaluate places, experiences and situations, as well as what they say. With an example from health geography, we show how it allows for i…
Exploring the determinants of health for First Nations peoples in Canada: Can Existing Frameworks Accommodate Traditional Activities
It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity
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
The contested meanings of home for women caring for children with long-term care needs in Ontario, Canada
Home as a place of caring is theorized using the literature from geography, sociology, housing and feminist studies. To support our theorization, grounded theory is used to capture and interpret the experiences of women caring for children with long-term care needs in the home. Eleven semi-structured interviews conducted with women in Ontario, Canada uncovered differences in the way the women perceived their homes and highlighted their multiple a…
Neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow: Provider perspectives on the challenges of weather for home and community care
Gender, poverty and location: How Much Difference Do They Make in the Geography of Health Inequalities
Aging, health and place in residential care facilities in Beijing, China
Ontario's underserviced area program revisited: An indirect analysis
Getting out of the house: The challenges mothers face when their children have long-term care needs
In most industrialised countries, the care needs of those who are sick, disabled and frail are increasingly met in peoples' homes. One of the implications of this shift in the site of care is that individuals with long-term care needs and their family care providers experience social and spatial isolation. Many are housebound and most face considerable challenges in getting out of the house. This paper illuminates these challenges as they are exp…
Access and utilization: A continuum of health service environments
Not there yet: Examining community support from the perspective of people with dementia and their partners in care
Linking the geographical, the medical and the political in analysing health care delivery systems
Aging and the changing urban environment: The relationship between older people and the living environment in post-reform Beijing, China
The Chinese population is aging rapidly. In Beijing, older people’s immediate environments have seen great changes and are important for their everyday aging experiences. This study explains the changing relationships between older people and their living environments by conducting in-depth interviews with 47 older people living at home in Beijing. Results show that older people’s perceptions of their living environments can be categorized by the…
Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary‐making of an everyday exercise environment
In this paper, we put forward a proposal for a critical geography of physical activity that attunes to experience while centring on the socio‐spatial processes and power structures enabling and constraining physical activity participation. Drawing on our research that explored women's and men's emotional geographies of an everyday exercise environment – the gym – in a Canadian city, we show how this approach can identify otherwise invisible envir…
Responding to complex societal challenges: A decade of Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) interdisciplinary research
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…
Accessibility to health care: A North American perspective
Aboriginal peoples, health and healing approaches: The effects of age and place on health
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…
Modelling Migration Flows of Immigrant Groups in Canada
The role of immigration in national development has returned to the forefront of domestic policy debates in many developed countries. Two common aspects of the domestic policy debate are focused on the consequences of the concentration of immigrant groups within a small number of the largest cities within any national system of cities and the movement of immigrants from smaller urban places and nonurban places to the largest cities over time. Two…
Identifying Connections Between the Subjective Experience of Health and Quality of Life in Old Age
The importance of qualitative methods in quality of life (QoL) studies is being increasingly recognized. Whereas attention has mainly focused on the exploration of relevant domains, subjective well-being, and representations of health in aging, less consideration has been given to relations among different QoL domains. We aimed in this research to identify connections between subjective health and other relevant domains from the perspective of ol…
Canada's elderly population: The challenges of diversity
Inner City Regeneration
Accessibility to health care: A North American perspective
Physician Location Behaviour in Metropolitan Toronto
How physicians choose their places of practice within urban areas is a basic problem in understanding health care delivery systems. Using the results of a postal survey in metropolitan Toronto, location factors important to physicians are examined using several different categories of analysis. As a result, three locational situations are discussed for their importance in the physician location decision and as the basis for a policy to influence …
Linking the geographical, the medical and the political in analysing health care delivery systems
Housing in Postwar Canada: Demographic Change, Household Formation, and Housing Demand
Components of Change in the Spatial Distribution of the Elderly Population in Ontario, 1976–1986
Although the elderly population is increasing rapidly in all parts of Canada, the pattern of change is far from uniform. A number of properties of the aging process are strongly differentiated at the county and township levels, variations which have considerable significance for the design and implementation of social service and health care systems. Using data from the 1976, 1981, and 1986 Censuses for Ontario, components of change in the elderl…
Focus: Achieving Health for All—the Geographer's Role
Ontario's underserviced area program revisited: An indirect analysis
Activism for medical geographers: American, British and Canadian viewpoints
Regional Development, Remote Communities and Alternative Transportation Services
Operators and governments are now questioning the efficacy of maintaining passenger rail services to remote communities where other modes of transport may offer improved levels of service and/or lower cost alternatives. The case of remote passenger rail services in northern Manitoba is used to investigate these issues. The net present costs of alternative air and bus services are examined and their implications for the regional economy and touris…
Population Change in Canada: The Challenges of Policy Adaptation
Siting a Women's Health Facility: A Location‐allocation Study of Breast Cancer Screening Services in Eastern Ontario
Women's health care has been a neglected area of study in geography. Access to health care has generally been treated as gender‐neutral in the medical geography literature. In this paper, access to a women's health care service is examined using a location‐allocation approach. We argue for the utility of a location‐allocation approach to the informed siting of breast‐screening facilities for two reasons. First, the readily available sex‐ and age‐…
The collapse of Canada
The end of the second most expensive health care system in the world: Some geographical implications
Contradictions in women's health care provision: A case study of attendance for breast cancer screening
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
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 …
Modelling Migration Flows of Immigrant Groups in Canada
The role of immigration in national development has returned to the forefront of domestic policy debates in many developed countries. Two common aspects of the domestic policy debate are focused on the consequences of the concentration of immigrant groups within a small number of the largest cities within any national system of cities and the movement of immigrants from smaller urban places and nonurban places to the largest cities over time. Two…
Access and utilization: A continuum of health service environments
Young unwed fathers. Changing roles and emerging politics
Medical or health geography? Populations, peoples and places
An epistemological and methodological debate has broken out between those who identify themselves as medical and health geographers. Lost within this debate has been the unprecedented explosion of research by medical and health geographers. Using this debate as a fulcrum, research in medical and health geography is reviewed, and opportunities where medical, health and population geographers might usefully collaborate are identified. Ultimately, m…
Researching the geography of health and health care: Connecting with the Third World
Gender, poverty and location: How Much Difference Do They Make in the Geography of Health Inequalities
Gentle caring experience’
Exploring the links between health and housing: The limitations of population health surveys
Sociology (63 works) · Medicine (61 works) · Geography (53 works) · Political science (46 works) · Economic growth (37 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (33 works) · Health care (31 works) · Population (31 works) · Psychology (31 works) · Economics (30 works)