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Chris G. Buse; Maya Gislason; Arleigh Reynolds; Mira Ziolo. Enough tough talk! It’s time for the tough action(s) to promote local to global planetary health. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education 2021, 1 -5.
AMA StyleChris G. Buse, Maya Gislason, Arleigh Reynolds, Mira Ziolo. Enough tough talk! It’s time for the tough action(s) to promote local to global planetary health. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. 2021; ():1-5.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChris G. Buse; Maya Gislason; Arleigh Reynolds; Mira Ziolo. 2021. "Enough tough talk! It’s time for the tough action(s) to promote local to global planetary health." International Journal of Health Promotion and Education , no. : 1-5.
Children and youth are showing increasing levels of mental health distress due to the climate crisis, characterized by feelings of sadness, guilt, changes in sleep and appetite, difficulty concentrating, solastalgia, and disconnection from land. To gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between climate change and children and youth’s mental health, we conducted a rapid review and a thematic analysis of the results in NVivo 12. Our findings show that children and youth experience a plethora of direct and indirect effects from climate change and this impacts their mental wellbeing in diverse and complex ways. Young people also have varied perceptions of climate change based on their social locations and many are dealing with feelings of immense worry and eco-anxiety. The mental health impacts of climate change on children/youth are tied to Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) but also need to be understood in relation to the Ecological Determinants of Health (EDoH). Through an eco-social lens, this paper explores these conceptual issues and uses them to provide a framework for understanding the interplay of social and ecological determinants of mental health for children/youth.
Maya Gislason; Angel Kennedy; Stephanie Witham. The Interplay between Social and Ecological Determinants of Mental Health for Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18, 4573 .
AMA StyleMaya Gislason, Angel Kennedy, Stephanie Witham. The Interplay between Social and Ecological Determinants of Mental Health for Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18 (9):4573.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaya Gislason; Angel Kennedy; Stephanie Witham. 2021. "The Interplay between Social and Ecological Determinants of Mental Health for Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 9: 4573.
The need for gendered and culturally sensitive analyses of the impacts of resource development is being echoed across Canada. Such an imperative is especially significant in rural, remote, and Indigenous communities where individuals, including women, girls, and gender diverse people, bear the embodied burden of the impacts of resource development. While the need for gender sensitive impact assessment (IA) is clear, what is less clear is how to design and conduct assessments that meaningfully include the impacts on sex and gender. This article explores the application of Gender-based Analysis Plus, a policy tool, in approaches to IA. We review the utility of indicator frameworks given Section 22 (s) of Canada's Impact Assessment Act (2019) which states that sex, gender and other identity factors must be taken into account during IA processes. Such a clause is an overdue response to the increasing awareness of the need for improved regulation and the development of social and cultural IA processes that consider axes of difference such as gender, class, ableism, racialization, and their intersections. This paper reviews key literature on gender-based analysis and IA, and argues that gender-based indicator frameworks, as currently imagined in the IA processes, remain in tension with calls for community-specific and culturally appropriate methods.
Dawn Hoogeveen; Aleyah Williams; Alisha Hussey; Sally Western; Maya K. Gislason. Sex, mines, and pipelines: Examining ‘Gender-based Analysis Plus’ in Canadian impact assessment resource extraction policy. The Extractive Industries and Society 2021, 8, 100921 .
AMA StyleDawn Hoogeveen, Aleyah Williams, Alisha Hussey, Sally Western, Maya K. Gislason. Sex, mines, and pipelines: Examining ‘Gender-based Analysis Plus’ in Canadian impact assessment resource extraction policy. The Extractive Industries and Society. 2021; 8 (3):100921.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDawn Hoogeveen; Aleyah Williams; Alisha Hussey; Sally Western; Maya K. Gislason. 2021. "Sex, mines, and pipelines: Examining ‘Gender-based Analysis Plus’ in Canadian impact assessment resource extraction policy." The Extractive Industries and Society 8, no. 3: 100921.
Safety concerns, notably sharing road space with motor traffic, pose barriers for bicycling. To address safety concerns, bicycle courses are designed to provide skills and know-how for bicyclists to share road space with traffic. This paper used Social Practice Theory combined with a critical gender lens to examine the impact of a bicycle course for women living in Vancouver, Canada. We aimed to: 1) describe bicycling competences and associated materials and meanings; 2) compare bicycling competences at different stages of uptake and maintenance; and 3) identify gendering processes shaping bicycling practices. We conducted interviews with 32 women in the year following their participation in a bicycle course. Data collection and analysis were guided by interpretive description methodology. Participants described competences as skills for road positioning and route-finding, knowing formal and informal rules (laws, etiquette) to interact with other road users, and having strategies to minimise gender harassment. Regarding uptake and maintenance, women with opportunities to engage in bicycling cultivated competences more quickly. Those without suitable bicycles rarely rode; others described a virtuous circle where more time in the saddle led to greater confidence. Gendering processes shaped nearly all aspects of bicycling and included safekeeping (taking disproportionate personal responsibility for safety) and cultivating an assertive bodily comportment to take up space. We recommend that courses be augmented with support to acquire suitable bicycles, social opportunities for bicycling, continued investment in bicycle infrastructure, education for motorists, and discussion regarding etiquette between bicyclists.
Stephanie Sersli; Maya Gislason; Nicholas Scott; Meghan Winters. Easy as riding a bike? Bicycling competence as (re)learning to negotiate space. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health 2021, 1 -21.
AMA StyleStephanie Sersli, Maya Gislason, Nicholas Scott, Meghan Winters. Easy as riding a bike? Bicycling competence as (re)learning to negotiate space. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 2021; ():1-21.
Chicago/Turabian StyleStephanie Sersli; Maya Gislason; Nicholas Scott; Meghan Winters. 2021. "Easy as riding a bike? Bicycling competence as (re)learning to negotiate space." Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health , no. : 1-21.
This paper explores how climate change communication is understood and enacted in Canada’s Provincial North (CPN), with a focus on the role that local climate champions play in regions characterized by rurality, remoteness, and a high degree of reliance on natural resource industries. Drawing from 24 in-depth interviews with individuals increasing local attention to climate in Northern British Columbia and Ontario, this research identifies communication challenges and opportunities arising in these contexts. Existing literature inadequately addresses the challenges of advancing climate change initiatives in rural and remote communities. Confirming and extending existing research on place-based communication, CPN climate champions underscored that messages must be place-based, community-informed, reflect local realities, and address the role of industry in regional economies. This paper offers an important set of insights that is relevant to climate change communication in other rural and remote settings in high-income countries.
Maya K. Gislason; Lindsay Galway; Chris Buse; Margot Parkes; Emily Rees. Place-based Climate Change Communication and Engagement in Canada’s Provincial North: Lessons Learned from Climate Champions. Environmental Communication 2021, 15, 530 -545.
AMA StyleMaya K. Gislason, Lindsay Galway, Chris Buse, Margot Parkes, Emily Rees. Place-based Climate Change Communication and Engagement in Canada’s Provincial North: Lessons Learned from Climate Champions. Environmental Communication. 2021; 15 (4):530-545.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaya K. Gislason; Lindsay Galway; Chris Buse; Margot Parkes; Emily Rees. 2021. "Place-based Climate Change Communication and Engagement in Canada’s Provincial North: Lessons Learned from Climate Champions." Environmental Communication 15, no. 4: 530-545.
Work that addresses the cumulative impacts of resource extraction on environment, community, and health is necessarily large in scope. This paper presents experiences from initiating research at this intersection and explores implications for the ambitious, integrative agenda of planetary health. The purpose is to outline origins, design features, and preliminary insights from our intersectoral and international project, based in Canada and titled the “Environment, Community, Health Observatory” (ECHO) Network. With a clear emphasis on rural, remote, and Indigenous communities, environments, and health, the ECHO Network is designed to answer the question: How can an Environment, Community, Health Observatory Network support the integrative tools and processes required to improve understanding and response to the cumulative health impacts of resource development? The Network is informed by four regional cases across Canada where we employ a framework and an approach grounded in observation, “taking notice for action”, and collective learning. Sharing insights from the foundational phase of this five-year project, we reflect on the hidden and obvious challenges of working across scales, sectors, and sites, and the overlap of generative and uncomfortable entanglements associated with health and resource development. Yet, although intersectoral work addressing the cumulative impacts of resource extraction presents uncertainty and unresolved tensions, ultimately we argue that it is worth staying with the trouble.
Margot W. Parkes; Sandra Allison; Henry G. Harder; Dawn Hoogeveen; Diana Kutzner; Melissa Aalhus; Evan Adams; Lindsay Beck; Ben Brisbois; Chris G. Buse; Annika Chiasson; Donald C. Cole; Shayna Dolan; Anne Fauré; Raina Fumerton; Maya K. Gislason; Louisa Hadley; Lars K. Hallström; Pierre Horwitz; Raissa Marks; Kaileah McKellar; Helen Moewaka Barnes; Barbara Oke; Linda Pillsworth; Jamie Reschny; Dionne Sanderson; Sarah Skinner; Krista Stelkia; Craig Stephen; Céline Surette; Tim K. Takaro; Cathy Vaillancourt. Addressing the Environmental, Community, and Health Impacts of Resource Development: Challenges across Scales, Sectors, and Sites. Challenges 2019, 10, 22 .
AMA StyleMargot W. Parkes, Sandra Allison, Henry G. Harder, Dawn Hoogeveen, Diana Kutzner, Melissa Aalhus, Evan Adams, Lindsay Beck, Ben Brisbois, Chris G. Buse, Annika Chiasson, Donald C. Cole, Shayna Dolan, Anne Fauré, Raina Fumerton, Maya K. Gislason, Louisa Hadley, Lars K. Hallström, Pierre Horwitz, Raissa Marks, Kaileah McKellar, Helen Moewaka Barnes, Barbara Oke, Linda Pillsworth, Jamie Reschny, Dionne Sanderson, Sarah Skinner, Krista Stelkia, Craig Stephen, Céline Surette, Tim K. Takaro, Cathy Vaillancourt. Addressing the Environmental, Community, and Health Impacts of Resource Development: Challenges across Scales, Sectors, and Sites. Challenges. 2019; 10 (1):22.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMargot W. Parkes; Sandra Allison; Henry G. Harder; Dawn Hoogeveen; Diana Kutzner; Melissa Aalhus; Evan Adams; Lindsay Beck; Ben Brisbois; Chris G. Buse; Annika Chiasson; Donald C. Cole; Shayna Dolan; Anne Fauré; Raina Fumerton; Maya K. Gislason; Louisa Hadley; Lars K. Hallström; Pierre Horwitz; Raissa Marks; Kaileah McKellar; Helen Moewaka Barnes; Barbara Oke; Linda Pillsworth; Jamie Reschny; Dionne Sanderson; Sarah Skinner; Krista Stelkia; Craig Stephen; Céline Surette; Tim K. Takaro; Cathy Vaillancourt. 2019. "Addressing the Environmental, Community, and Health Impacts of Resource Development: Challenges across Scales, Sectors, and Sites." Challenges 10, no. 1: 22.
The 'Ecohealth and Watersheds in Northern BC'' project, situated in a resource rich, settler colonial context, generated three digital stories at the request of the project's Steering Committee members that sought to connect health, environment, and community. Three Steering Committee members championed these stories from their distinct watersheds, resulting in emergent counter-narratives that respond directly to their social-ecological contexts. Nested in literature on blue and green spaces, we present and examine the process of storytelling as emergent counter-narrative and how these narratives challenge us to think of blue and green spaces in interconnected and nuanced ways.
Maya K. Gislason; Vanessa Sloan Morgan; Kendra Mitchell-Foster; Margot W. Parkes. Voices from the landscape: Storytelling as emergent counter-narratives and collective action from northern BC watersheds. Health & Place 2018, 54, 191 -199.
AMA StyleMaya K. Gislason, Vanessa Sloan Morgan, Kendra Mitchell-Foster, Margot W. Parkes. Voices from the landscape: Storytelling as emergent counter-narratives and collective action from northern BC watersheds. Health & Place. 2018; 54 ():191-199.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaya K. Gislason; Vanessa Sloan Morgan; Kendra Mitchell-Foster; Margot W. Parkes. 2018. "Voices from the landscape: Storytelling as emergent counter-narratives and collective action from northern BC watersheds." Health & Place 54, no. : 191-199.
While services tailored for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) may provide support for this vulnerable population, planning access to these services can be difficult due to the unknown spatial distribution of gbMSM outside of gay-centered neighborhoods. This is particularly true since the emergence of geosocial networking apps, which have become a widely used venue for meeting sexual partners. The goal of our research was to estimate the spatial density of app users across Metro Vancouver and identify the independent and adjusted neighborhood-level factors that predict app user density. This pilot study used a popular geosocial networking app to estimate the spatial density of app users across rural and urban Metro Vancouver. Multiple Poisson regression models were then constructed to model the relationship between app user density and areal population-weighted neighbourhood-level factors from the 2016 Canadian Census and National Household Survey. A total of 2021 app user profiles were counted within 1 mile of 263 sampling locations. In a multivariate model controlling for time of day, app user density was associated with several dissemination area–level characteristics, including population density (per 100; incidence rate ratio [IRR] 1.03, 95% CI 1.02-1.04), average household size (IRR 0.26, 95% CI 0.11-0.62), average age of males (IRR 0.93, 95% CI 0.88-0.98), median income of males (IRR 0.96, 95% CI 0.92-0.99), proportion of males who were not married (IRR 1.08, 95% CI 1.02-1.13), proportion of males with a postsecondary education (IRR 1.06, 95% CI 1.03-1.10), proportion of males who are immigrants (IRR 1.04, 95% CI 1.004-1.07), and proportion of males living below the low-income cutoff level (IRR 0.93, 95% CI 0.89-0.98). This pilot study demonstrates how the combination of geosocial networking apps and administrative datasets might help care providers, planners, and community leaders target online and offline interventions for gbMSM who use apps.
Kiffer George Card; Jeremy Gibbs; Nathan John Lachowsky; Blake W Hawkins; Miranda Compton; Joshua Edward; Travis Salway; Maya K. Gislason; Robert S. Hogg; Kevin Delaney; Adam Vaughan; Sophie Claudel. Using Geosocial Networking Apps to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Gay and Bisexual Men: Pilot Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2018, 4, e61 .
AMA StyleKiffer George Card, Jeremy Gibbs, Nathan John Lachowsky, Blake W Hawkins, Miranda Compton, Joshua Edward, Travis Salway, Maya K. Gislason, Robert S. Hogg, Kevin Delaney, Adam Vaughan, Sophie Claudel. Using Geosocial Networking Apps to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Gay and Bisexual Men: Pilot Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2018; 4 (3):e61.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKiffer George Card; Jeremy Gibbs; Nathan John Lachowsky; Blake W Hawkins; Miranda Compton; Joshua Edward; Travis Salway; Maya K. Gislason; Robert S. Hogg; Kevin Delaney; Adam Vaughan; Sophie Claudel. 2018. "Using Geosocial Networking Apps to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Gay and Bisexual Men: Pilot Study." JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 4, no. 3: e61.
We consider the case of intensive resource extractive projects in the Blueberry River First Nations in Northern British Columbia, Canada, as a case study. Drawing on the parallels between concepts of cumulative environmental and cumulative health impacts, we highlight three axes along which to gauge the effects of intensive extraction projects. These are environmental, health, and social justice axes. Using an intersectional analysis highlights the way in which using individual indicators to measure impact, rather than considering cumulative effects, hides the full extent by which the affected First Nations communities are impacted by intensive extraction projects. We use the case study to contemplate several mechanisms at the intersection of these axes whereby the negative effects of each not only add but also amplify through their interactions. For example, direct impact along the environmental axis indirectly amplifies other health and social justice impacts separately from the direct impacts on those axes. We conclude there is significant work still to be done to use cumulative indicators to study the impacts of extractive industry projects—like liquefied natural gas—on peoples, environments, and health.
Maya K Gislason; Holly K Andersen. The Interacting Axes of Environmental, Health, and Social Justice Cumulative Impacts: A Case Study of the Blueberry River First Nations. Healthcare 2016, 4, 78 .
AMA StyleMaya K Gislason, Holly K Andersen. The Interacting Axes of Environmental, Health, and Social Justice Cumulative Impacts: A Case Study of the Blueberry River First Nations. Healthcare. 2016; 4 (4):78.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaya K Gislason; Holly K Andersen. 2016. "The Interacting Axes of Environmental, Health, and Social Justice Cumulative Impacts: A Case Study of the Blueberry River First Nations." Healthcare 4, no. 4: 78.
Maya K Gislason. Climate change, health and infectious disease. Virulence 2015, 6, 539 -542.
AMA StyleMaya K Gislason. Climate change, health and infectious disease. Virulence. 2015; 6 (6):539-542.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaya K Gislason. 2015. "Climate change, health and infectious disease." Virulence 6, no. 6: 539-542.
The West Nile virus (WNV), as it was presented in the texts and discourses on the Public Health Agency of Canada's (PHAC) website during its initial emergence, was an effect of the kinds of knowledge, techniques of power and disciplinary apparatuses that operate on that website and in society. With reference to Michel Foucault's relations of power, this article offers an approach for translating theories of power into techniques and technologies of power that can be used to conduct a social construction discourse analysis, and gives examples from the use of surveillance, normalisation, exclusion and regulation in PHAC's responses to the WNV epidemic in Canada. This study concludes with the assertion that shifting the ways in which social and political relations of power contour public health theories and practice is crucial. The present moment requires the development of global health responses to pandemics that are rooted less in the proliferation of apparatuses of control and more in epidemiological innovations and integrated, multi-perspectival research approaches to infectious diseases research, and in the governance of pandemic control and prevention initiatives.
Maya K. Gislason. West Nile virus: the production of a public health pandemic. Sociology of Health & Illness 2012, 35, 188 -199.
AMA StyleMaya K. Gislason. West Nile virus: the production of a public health pandemic. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2012; 35 (2):188-199.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaya K. Gislason. 2012. "West Nile virus: the production of a public health pandemic." Sociology of Health & Illness 35, no. 2: 188-199.
Theoretically inspired by discursive institutionalism and multi-level governance, this paper assesses the extent to which 'environmental health' has emerged as a new discourse at European level, the effects it has had on national public health governance in two European countries, and what mechanisms have triggered or hindered these effects.
K.R. Stassen; M. Gislason; P. Leroy. Impact of environmental discourses on public health policy arrangements: A comparative study in the UK and Flanders (Belgium). Public Health 2010, 124, 581 -592.
AMA StyleK.R. Stassen, M. Gislason, P. Leroy. Impact of environmental discourses on public health policy arrangements: A comparative study in the UK and Flanders (Belgium). Public Health. 2010; 124 (10):581-592.
Chicago/Turabian StyleK.R. Stassen; M. Gislason; P. Leroy. 2010. "Impact of environmental discourses on public health policy arrangements: A comparative study in the UK and Flanders (Belgium)." Public Health 124, no. 10: 581-592.
Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic
Maya K. Gislason. Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic. Advances in Medical Sociology 2010, 11, 77 -99.
AMA StyleMaya K. Gislason. Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic. Advances in Medical Sociology. 2010; 11 ():77-99.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaya K. Gislason. 2010. "Sounding a public health alarm: producing West Nile virus as a newly emerging infectious disease epidemic." Advances in Medical Sociology 11, no. : 77-99.
This paper focuses on the practice of interdisciplinary research and its relationship with disciplines within the context of sustainability research. Disciplines are defined as institutions, i.e. conventions, norms or formally sanctioned rules that coordinate human action [Vatn, A., 2005. Institutions and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK). These institutions coordinate the practice of research. The central claim of this study is that interdisciplinary research occurs at the interplay between disciplinary institutions. These ideas are developed through the analysis of nine qualitative interviews conducted with established researchers who share an interest in studying issues of environmental sustainability. Specifically, this analysis identifies the motives of researchers who engage in interdisciplinary research and discusses the key characteristics of interdisciplinary research practice. The findings suggest that interdisciplinary research practice relies on disciplinary institutions as points of theoretical and methodological reference. Yet, the paper points at tensions that occur between the practice of interdisciplinary research and the practice of more traditional disciplinary research
Vanesa Castán Broto; Maya Gislason; Melf-Hinrich Ehlers. Practising interdisciplinarity in the interplay between disciplines: experiences of established researchers. Environmental Science & Policy 2009, 12, 922 -933.
AMA StyleVanesa Castán Broto, Maya Gislason, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers. Practising interdisciplinarity in the interplay between disciplines: experiences of established researchers. Environmental Science & Policy. 2009; 12 (7):922-933.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVanesa Castán Broto; Maya Gislason; Melf-Hinrich Ehlers. 2009. "Practising interdisciplinarity in the interplay between disciplines: experiences of established researchers." Environmental Science & Policy 12, no. 7: 922-933.