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Natural experiments for healthier communities: evidence to drive Canadian policy and practice

Stephanie A. Prince; Gavin R. McCormack

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 3 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

The impact of revitalized urban and rural recreation infrastructure on usage levels: evidence from a longitudinal quasi-experimental study in Alberta, Canada

Ana Paula Belon; Laura Nieuwendyk; Vijaya Krishnan dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 3 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionFew studies have analyzed the impact of public investments in indoor and outdoor recreational spaces, and even fewer have assessed this impact longitudinally. This hinders informed decision-making about returns on investments made with limited public budgets. We assessed the impact of a…

Natural experiments in the built environment: evaluating impacts on health

Adrian Bauman; Melanie Crane

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 3 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

Shaping healthier futures: community-level impact of the Alberta Healthy Communities Approach

Christina Gillies; Lisa K. Allen-Scott; Courtney Baay dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 3 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionBuilt environment initiatives that change the physical places in which people live, work and play offer an approach to preventing cancer and chronic diseases. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Alberta Healthy Communities Approach Phase II (AHCA II), a…

Impacts of built environment changes on physical activity in Canada: a systematic review of natural experiments

Stephanie A. Prince; Justin J. Lang; Sarah Lawrason dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 3 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionThe built environment supports physical activity (PA) by providing opportunities to be active in daily life. Natural experiments are valuable for assessing how real-world changes to the built environment affect PA and are critical for guiding policies to improve population-level PA. The…

Corrigendum - Supervised consumption sites and population-level overdose mortality: a systematic review of recent evidence, 2016–2024

Geneviève Gariépy; Rebecca K. M. Prowse; Rebecca Plouffe dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 2 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

Physical activity levels among Canadians using a health equity lens

Justin J. Lang; Sarah E. Turner; Natalie Doan dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 2 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionThis study examined physical activity (PA) levels among youth (12–17 years) and adults (18 years and older) living in Canada by subgroups including gender, sexual orientation, population groups, education, and income. MethodsData from the 2021 Canadian Community Health Survey (N = 44…

Child maltreatment in Canada: prevalence and gender differences among youth

Britt McKinnon; Harriet L. MacMillan; Ashley Vandermorris dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 2 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

AbstractThis study presents the first Canadian self-reported estimates of child maltreatment (CM) from youth using data from 5256 participants aged 15 to 17 years in the 2023 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth. CM prevalence was high, particularly for emotional abuse (44.9%) and exposure…

Prosocial behaviour and happiness among children aged 6 to 11 years in Canada

Colin A. Capaldi; Danielle Lemaire; Katrina R. Abela dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 2 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

AbstractA gap in Canadian public health surveillance is the monitoring of childhood positive mental health (PMH). We used available data from the first six cycles of the Canadian Health Measures Survey to examine how two potential PMH indicators are distributed across time and populations of…

Sex-based differences in heavy episodic drinking among adults in Canada, 2017–2023: a repeated cross-sectional analysis

Erin Hobin; Leili Baghaie; Naomi Schwartz dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 9 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

AbstractHeavy episodic drinking (HED) is a key population indicator for harmful alcohol consumption. We used data from the Canadian Community Health Survey to examine recent trends in sex-based differences in HED among adults by age group from 2017 to 2019 and 2022 to 2023. The overall prevalence…

Disordered eating profiles and associations with student sociodemographic characteristics: a latent class analysis among adolescents in Canada

Lin Zheng; Katelyn Battista; William Pickett dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 9 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionDespite its importance to health and well-being, evidence on disordered eating (DE) patterns among Canadian adolescents remains limited. This study aimed to (1) identify latent DE classes among adolescents in Canada; and (2) investigate whether students’ sociodemographic characteristics…

Social determinants of adolescent eating behaviours: findings from the 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth

Gyselle de Geus; Jean-Philippe Chaput; Rita Al Kazzi dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 9 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionLimited evidence is available on the eating behaviours of Canadian adolescents. We examined how eating behaviours vary by social factors in a large nationwide sample of Canadian adolescents. MethodsThis cross-sectional study used data from the 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and…

Examining the grading process for the Government indicator of the 2024 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth

Nicholas Kuzik; Brianne A. Bruijns; Christine Cameron dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 9 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionThe ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth is the national assessment of children and youth’s physical activity and related behaviours. Traditionally, the Government indicator was graded through a subjective process, but the 2024 Report Card applied a…

Chronic disease and social isolation among Canadians: evidence from the 2022 Mental Health and Access to Care Survey

Dorian DiTommaso; Fabio Robibaro; Nicholas D. Spence

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 6 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionChronic conditions are highly prevalent in Canada and are commonly examined as a single, aggregated exposure in population research on social isolation. Such approaches emphasize overall disease burden but make it difficult to distinguish the independent contributions of diagnostic…

Adherence to Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines among Canadian college students: a regression analysis

Julia Pei; Laura B. Jones; Chris G. Richardson dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 6 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionThe objective of this study is to evaluate adherence to seven Canadian Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guideline (LRCUG) recommendations among Canadian university students and identify subgroups of high-risk users. MethodsWe analyzed survey data collected across four Canadian universities under…

Concurrent mental health and substance use disorders among Canadian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study

Cindy Feng; Mark Asbridge

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 6 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionConcurrent disorders, defined here as co-occurring mental health disorders (MHD) and substance use disorders (SUD), pose challenges for treatment and public health. This study examines the prevalence and characteristics associated with MHD only, SUD only, and concurrent disorders among…

Evolving student health priorities and school-based health-promoting interventions in Quebec, 2016–2025

Robert J. Wellman; Erin K. O’Loughlin; Annie Montreuil dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 7/8 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionThe World Health Organization (WHO) recommends implementing health-promoting interventions (HPIs) in schools to enhance student health and well-being. The repeat cross-sectional PromeSS project examines whether social inequalities are evident in perceived priority of student health…

Using health service data to understand unregulated toxic drug deaths in Alberta (2018–2023): an ecological study

Holly Mathias; Karen V. Lithgow; Euan Thomson dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 7/8 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionTen years into the most acute phase of the toxic drug crisis in Canada, trends in drug-related deaths remain poorly understood. This is hindered by delayed reporting of drug deaths in some provinces, including Alberta. We used publicly available emergency medical services (EMS) and…

Understanding the impact of climate change on mental health from a Canadian perspective: a scoping review

Sarah V.C. Lawrason; Salah U. Khan; Amy Farrow dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 7/8 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionClimate change poses a growing threat to health in Canada through both extreme weather and climate events (e.g. wildfires, floods, extreme heat) and gradual environmental changes (e.g. shifting seasonal patterns, ecosystem degradation). While physical health impacts have been well…

The impact of recreational cannabis legalization on pediatric emergency department visits in British Columbia, Canada

Melody Xiao; Aygun Ibrahimova; Atousa Zargaran dkk.

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol. 46 No. 4 · 2026 · Prancis · DOAJ Scopus

IntroductionCanadian youth report some of the highest rates of cannabis use globally, raising concerns about child and youth poisonings from unintentional exposures and recreational use following legalization. This study examines and compares trends in cannabis poisonings among children and youth…