Gina Agarwal

Dados Biográficos

ID3463642
NOMEGina Agarwal
PRENOMESGina
SOBRENOMEAgarwal
ASSINATURAAGARWAL G
AFILIAÇÕESMcMaster University
ORCID0000-0002-5691-4675
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES5
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Healthcare utilization and preventive care among social housing residents compared to the general population during the Covid-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

    Open AccessGina Agarwal, Homa Keshavarz et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction: To examine disparities in influenza vaccination and screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers among adults living in social housing compared to the general population of Ontario, Canada, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A population-based cohort study was conducted using linked administrative health data from Ontario, Canada. We studied individuals aged 18 and older who were alive on January 1, 2020. So…

  • Development of the Social Housing of Ontario (SHO) Registry by health region

    Open AccessGina Agarwal, Melissa Pirrie et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction: Social housing plays a critical role in addressing housing inequality and promoting well-being. This paper examines the creation of a registry of social housing sites across all six Ontario Health (OH) regions. Methods: For all 47 housing service providers in Ontario, social housing address, provider type, and building type were extracted from their website or from documents provided by the housing organization. The Registry include…

  • Study protocol for the randomized controlled trial of Embolden

    Open AccessRebecca Ganann, Stuart M Phillips et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background Reduced physical mobility is common in older adults and is associated with adverse outcomes, including functional decline, depression, social isolation, and poor nutritional status. Group-based programs focusing on physical activity and nutrition to support healthier lifestyles have demonstrated benefits, particularly when paired with social engagement activities. This paper presents the protocol for a randomized controlled trial (RCT)…

  • Standardized disease-related measures in diabetes research

    Open AccessMeena Daivadanam, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: A lack of disease-related consensus measures for type 2 diabetes interventions is a barrier to comparing interventions across various contexts, as well as to implementation and scale-up. This study aimed to use an expert consensus approach to select disease-related measures for type 2 diabetes to facilitate cross-contextual research, as well as the implementation and scaling-up of initiatives. Methods: The study was conducted using a …

  • Where low-income seniors receive their heart health and diabetes information

    Open AccessPauneez Sadri, Momina Abbas et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Family physicians with older adult patients could better supplement their health assessments by promoting and explaining educational brochures, and ensuring that they address these health topics to better communicate chronic disease prevention

  • Effects of the Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) program on the health behaviours of older adults residing in social housing

    Open AccessJasdeep Brar, Leena AlShenaiber et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02152891, registered June 6, 2014

  • Sars-CoV-2 testing, test positivity and vaccination in social housing residents compared with the general population

    Open AccessGina Agarwal, Homa Keshavarz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025Referências: 21

    BACKGROUND: The consideration of unique social housing needs has largely been absent from the COVID-19 response, particularly in tailoring strategies to improve access to testing and vaccine uptake among vulnerable and high-risk populations in Ontario. Given the growing population of social housing residents, this study aimed to compare SARS-CoV-2 testing, positivity, and vaccination rates in a social housing population with those in a general po…

  • Chronic disease prevalence and preventive care among Ontario social housing residents compared with the general population

    Open AccessGina Agarwal, Homa Keshavarz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2025Referências: 29

    BACKGROUND: Older adults living in social housing report poor health and access to healthcare services. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of chronic diseases, influenza vaccination and cancer screenings among social housing residents versus non-residents in Ontario, Canada. METHODS: We conducted a population-based cohort study for all health-insured Ontarians alive and aged 40 or older as of 1 January 2020. Social housing residents were…

  • Core outcome sets for trials of interventions to prevent and to treat multimorbidity in adults in low and middle-income countries

    Open AccessAishwarya Lakshmi Vidyasagaran, Rubab Ayesha et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: The burden of multimorbidity is recognised increasingly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), creating a strong emphasis on the need for effective evidence-based interventions. Core outcome sets (COS) appropriate for the study of multimorbidity in LMICs do not presently exist. These are required to standardise reporting and contribute to a consistent and cohesive evidence-base to inform policy and practice. We describe the de…

  • “You are the only other person in the world that knows that about me”

    Open AccessMonica L Molinaro, Katrina Shen et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2024

    Canadians' health outcomes are inextricably tied to social inequities. Family medicine is uniquely situated to provide care that addresses social factors through longitudinal knowledge of patients and the contexts of their lives. However, family physicians have come under increased practice demands shaped by neoliberal ideological structuring of health care, compounding difficulties in providing care for persons experiencing health needs related …

  • ‘If It Was Easy Somebody Would Have Fixed It’

    Open AccessLaurie Moseley, Jason Scott et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to explore social isolation and loneliness in those who frequently contacted the ambulance service, what factors contributed to this and how unmet needs could be addressed. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews with staff from the ambulance service and service users who were identified as frequently contacting the ambulance service. Service users also completed the UCLA loneliness scale and personal community …

  • Health trends in Canada 1990–2019

    Open AccessJacek A Kopec, Farshad Pourmalek et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2024Referências: 17

  • Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050

    Open AccessKanyin Liane Ong, Lauryn K Stafford et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…

  • Barriers to and strategies to address Covid-19 testing hesitancy

    Open AccessMark Embrett, Meaghan Sims et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Various barriers to COVID-19 testing and strategies for mitigating these barriers were identified. Further research to test the efficacy of these strategies is needed to better support testing for COVID-19 by addressing testing hesitancy as part of the broader COVID-19 public health response

  • Violence against emergency healthcare workers

    Open AccessEvelien Spelten, Julia van Vuuren et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aggression Conflict…2022Referências: 6

    Purpose This study aims to investigate whether emergency health-care workers distinguish between different categories of perpetrators of violence and how they respond to different types of perpetrator profiles. Design/methodology/approach Five focus groups with emergency health-care workers were held in Canada. The participants were asked whether they identified different groups of perpetrators of violence and how that impacted their approach. Th…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019

    Open AccessValery L Feigin, Benjamin A Stark et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Neurology2021

    BACKGROUND: Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are important for evidence-based stroke care planning and resource allocation. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) aims to provide a standardised and comprehensive measurement of these metrics at global, regional, and national leve…

  • Older adults living in social housing in Canada

    Open AccessMelissa Pirrie, Gina AgarwalARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2021Citada por: 3Referências: 5

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Open AccessChristopher J L Murray, Cristiana Abbafati et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    Open AccessGregory A Roth, George A Mensah et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American College…2020

    Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, including 13 underlying causes of cardiovascular death and 9 related risk factors, using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consisten…

  • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019

    Open AccessR Lozano, Nancy Fullman et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy priority for both countries and global institutions, as highlighted by the agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13). Measuring effective coverage at the health-system le…

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019

    Open AccessChristopher J L Murray, Aleksandr Y Aravkin et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which cases current efforts are inadequate. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a standardised and comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of risk factor exposure, relative risk, and attribu…

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019

    Open AccessTheo Vos, Stephen S Lim et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: In an era of shifting global agendas and expanded emphasis on non-communicable diseases and injuries along with communicable diseases, sound evidence on trends by cause at the national level is essential. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic scientific assessment of published, publicly available, and contributed data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality for a mutually exclusive…

  • Poverty and food insecurity of older adults living in social housing in Ontario

    Open AccessMelissa Pirrie, Leila E Harrison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The poverty rate was lower than expected which could be related to the surrounding environment and perceptions around wealth. Food insecurity was approximately twice that of the general population of older adults in Canada, which could be related to inaccessibility and increased barriers to healthy foods. For those who reported being food secure, dietary habits were considered poor. While social housing may function as a financial benefit and red…

  • Feasibility of implementing a community cardiovascular health promotion program with paramedics and volunteers in a South Asian population

    Open AccessGina Agarwal, Manika Bhandari et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Implementing CP@clinic in places of worship is a feasible approach to adapting the program for the South Asian population, however having a funded translator in addition to the volunteers would improve the program. Also, there is substantial opportunity for addressing cardiometabolic risk factors in this population using CP@clinic

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990–2016

    Open AccessCatherine Owens Johnson, Minh Nguyen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Neurology2019

    BACKGROUND: Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide and the economic costs of treatment and post-stroke care are substantial. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic, comparable method of quantifying health loss by disease, age, sex, year, and location to provide information to health systems and policy makers on more than 300 causes of disease and injury, including strok…