title: Out of our inner city backyards: re-scaling urban environmental health inequity assessment.
abstract: In this paper, we report the results of a three-year research project (2008-2011) that aimed to identify urban environmental health inequities using a photography-mediated qualitative approach adapted for comparative neighbourhood-level assessment. The project took place in Vancouver, Toronto, and Winnipeg, Canada and involved a total of 49 inner city community researchers who compared environmental health conditions in numerous neighbourhoods across each city. Using the social determinants of health as a guiding framework, community researchers observed a wide range of differences in health-influencing private and public spaces, including sanitation services, housing, parks and gardens, art displays, and community services. The comparative process enabled community researchers to articulate in five distinct ways how such observable conditions represented system level inequities. The findings inform efforts to shift environmental health intervention from constricted action within derelict urban districts to more coordinated mobilization for health equity in the city.
authors: Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Canada. jeff_masuda@umanitoba.ca
authors: Jeffrey R
authors: JR
authors: Masuda
authors: Cheryl
authors: C
authors: Teelucksingh
authors: Tara
authors: T
authors: Zupancic
authors: Alexis
authors: A
authors: Crabtree
authors: Rebecca
authors: R
authors: Haber
authors: Emily
authors: E
authors: Skinner
authors: Blake
authors: B
authors: Poland
authors: Jim
authors: J
authors: Frankish
authors: Mara
authors: M
authors: Fridell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002170:Canada; D002947:Cities; D004782:Environmental Health; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010781:Photography; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014504:Urban Health; D055815:Young Adult