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Donald C. Cole

Donald C. Cole

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
67
Citations
16883
World Ranking
909
National Ranking
52

Overview

Donald C. Cole is a researcher affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their work predominantly spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a significant focus on General Health Professions, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their publications cover a variety of main topics including:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Frequent collaborators in Cole's research include Ana Deaconu, Malek Batal, Warren Dodd, Blake Poland, and Lauren Y. Maldonado. These co-authorships reflect a multidisciplinary engagement crossing nutrition, environmental health, and public health domains.

Key venues where Donald C. Cole has published include the Canadian Journal of Public Health, Sustainability, Research Square, BJGP Open, and IJID Regions. These reflect an active involvement in both public health and interdisciplinary environmental health research.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Cole include:

  • "Using self-determination theory to understand the social prescribing process: a qualitative study" (2021, BJGP Open)
  • "New estimation of the prevalence of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) related to pulmonary TB - a revised burden for India" (2022, IJID Regions)
  • "Agroecology and nutritional health: A comparison of agroecological farmers and their neighbors in the Ecuadorian highlands" (2021, Food Policy)
  • "Factors Associated with Seasonal Food Insecurity among Small-Scale Subsistence Farming Households in Rural Honduras" (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • "Psychosocial adaptation to climate change in High River, Alberta: implications for policy and practice" (2020, Canadian Journal of Public Health)

These publications reveal a research portfolio addressing both the social determinants of health and the intersection of environmental change with nutrition and public health outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Erratum: Development of an upper extremity outcome measure: The DASH (Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand) (American Journal of Industrial Medicine (1996) 29:6 (602-608))

    P. L. Hudak;P. C. Amadio;C. Bombardier;D. Beaton

  • Invited review: Role of livestock in human nutrition and health for poverty reduction in developing countries.

    Thomas F. Randolph;E. Schelling;Delia Grace;Delia Grace;C. Nicholson

  • Does how you do depend on how you think you'll do? A systematic review of the evidence for a relation between patients' recovery expectations and health outcomes

    Michael V. Mondloch;Donald C. Cole;John W. Frank

  • Global burden of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis with asthma and its complication chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in adults

    David W. Denning;Alex Pleuvry;Donald C. Cole

  • Cancer health effects of pesticides: Systematic review

    K. L. Bassil;Catherine Vakil;M. Sanborn;D. C. Cole

  • Global burden of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis as a sequel to pulmonary tuberculosis.

    David W Denning;Alex Pleuvry;Donald C Cole

  • Effectiveness of participatory ergonomic interventions on health outcomes: a systematic review

    Irina Rivilis;Dwayne Van Eerd;Kimberley Cullen;Donald C. Cole

  • Reducing acute poisoning in developing countries--options for restricting the availability of pesticides.

    Flemming Konradsen;Wim van der Hoek;Donald C. Cole;Gerard Hutchinson

  • Preventing disability from work-related low-back pain. New evidence gives new hope - If we can just get all the players onside

    John Frank;Sandra Sinclair;Sheilah Hogg-Johnson;Harry Shannon

  • Environmental risk and (re)action: air quality, health, and civic involvement in an urban industrial neighbourhood

    Sarah E.L Wakefield;Susan J Elliott;Donald C Cole;John D Eyles

  • Non-cancer health effects of pesticides: Systematic review and implications for family doctors

    M. Sanborn;K.J. Kerr;L.H. Sanin;D.C. Cole

  • Management of return-to-work programs for workers with musculoskeletal disorders: a qualitative study in three Canadian provinces

    R Baril;J Clarke;M Friesen;S Stock

  • Process and implementation of participatory ergonomic interventions: a systematic review.

    Dwayne van Eerd;Donald Cole;Emma Irvin;Quenby Mahood

  • Listening to injured workers: how recovery expectations predict outcomes — a prospective study

    Donald C. Cole;Michael V. Mondloch;Sheilah Hogg-Johnson

  • The Power of Perception: Health Risk Attributed to Air Pollution in an Urban Industrial Neighbourhood

    Susan J. Elliott;Donald C. Cole;Paul Krueger;P Nancy Voorberg

  • Pesticide Use and Farm Worker Health in Ecuadorian Potato Production

    Charles C. Crissman;Donald C. Cole;Fernando Carpio

  • Upper limb work‐related musculoskeletal disorders among newspaper employees: Cross‐sectional survey results

    Michael F.D. Polanyi;Donald C. Cole;Dorcas E. Beaton;Dorcas E. Beaton;Jinjoo Chung

  • Global burden of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis complicating sarcoidosis

    David W. Denning;Alex Pleuvry;Donald C. Cole

  • A systematic review of the application and utility of geographical information systems for exploring disease-disease relationships in paediatric global health research: the case of anaemia and malaria

    Ashley Mariko Aimone;Ashley Mariko Aimone;Nandita Perumal;Nandita Perumal;Donald C Cole

  • Measuring disability of the upper extremity: a rationale supporting the use of a regional outcome measure.

    Aileen M. Davis;D. E. Beaton;P. Hudak;P. Amadio

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Denning
David W. Denning University of Manchester
Rahim Moineddin
Rahim Moineddin University of Toronto
John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Claire Bombardier
Claire Bombardier University of Toronto
Blake Poland
Blake Poland University of Toronto
John Frank
John Frank University of Edinburgh
Kwame McKenzie
Kwame McKenzie Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Keith R. Solomon
Keith R. Solomon University of Guelph
Clyde Hertzman
Clyde Hertzman University of British Columbia
Carles Muntaner
Carles Muntaner University of Toronto

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