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Overview

Gerry Veenstra is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and works primarily within the Social Sciences, with a focus on Health. Their research spans several subfields including Health, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, and Physiology.

Their research topics include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Veenstra has published multiple papers, with recent notable publications including:

  • Plant-based dietary practices in Canada: examining definitions, prevalence and correlates of animal source food exclusions using nationally representative data from the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition (2020, Public Health Nutrition)
  • Associations between social connections, their interactions, and obesity differ by gender: A population-based, cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Does household income mediate the association between education and health in Canada? (2020, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health)
  • Family income and self-rated health in Canada: Using fixed effects models to control for unobserved confounders and investigate causal temporality (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Intergenerational social mobility and self-rated health in Canada (2021, SSM - Population Health)

Frequent co-authors of Veenstra include:

  • Annalijn Conklin
  • Nadia Khan
  • Adam Vanzella-Yang
  • Gilciane Ceolin
  • Sanaz Mehranfar

Veenstra's research is often published in venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • SSM - Population Health
  • Journal of Hypertension
  • CJC Open
  • Canadian Journal of Public Health

Best Publications

  • Social capital, SES and health: an individual-level analysis.

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Race, gender, class, and sexual orientation: intersecting axes of inequality and self-rated health in Canada

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Who you know, where you live: social capital, neighbourhood and health

    Gerry Veenstra;Isaac Luginaah;Sarah Wakefield;Stephen Birch

  • “Who Do They Think We Are, Anyway?”: Perceptions of and Responses to Poverty Stigma

    Linda I. Reutter;Miriam J. Stewart;Gerry Veenstra;Rhonda Love

  • Social capital and health (plus wealth, income inequality and regional health governance).

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Loneliness and risk of mortality: a longitudinal investigation in Alameda County, California.

    Andrew C. Patterson;Gerry Veenstra

  • Location, location, location: contextual and compositional health effects of social capital in British Columbia, Canada

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Perceptions of genetic discrimination among people at risk for Huntington’s disease: a cross sectional survey

    Yvonne O. Bombard;Gerry Veenstra;Jan M. Friedman;Susan Creighton

  • Poverty, Sense of Belonging and Experiences of Social Isolation

    Miriam J. Stewart;Edward Makwarimba;Linda I. Reutter;Gerry Veenstra

  • Social space, social class and Bourdieu: Health inequalities in British Columbia, Canada

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Devolving authority for health care in Canada's provinces: 1. An introduction to the issues

    Jonathan Lomas;John Woods;Gerry Veenstra

  • Racialized identity and health in Canada: Results from a nationally representative survey

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Explicating social capital: Trust and participation in the civil space

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Does the community want devolved authority? Results of deliberative polling in Ontario.

    Julia Abelson;Jonathan Lomas;John Eyles;Stephen Birch

  • The Gendered Nature of Discriminatory Experiences by Race, Class, and Sexuality: A Comparison of Intersectionality Theory and the Subordinate Male Target Hypothesis

    Gerry Veenstra

  • The Relationship Between Cultural Competence and Ethnocentrism of Health Care Professionals

    Jen Capell;Elizabeth Dean;Gerry Veenstra

  • Home is where the governing is: social capital and regional health governance.

    Gerry Veenstra;Jonathan Lomas

  • Race, gender, class, sexuality (RGCS) and hypertension

    Gerry Veenstra

  • Psychosocial and neo-material dimensions of SES and health revisited: predictors of self-rated health in a Canadian national survey.

    James R. Dunn;James R. Dunn;James R. Dunn;Gerry Veenstra;Nancy Ross

  • Public Attributions for Poverty in Canada

    Linda I. Reutter;Gerry Veenstra;Miriam J. Stewart;Dennis Raphael

Frequent Co-Authors

Miriam Stewart
Miriam Stewart University of Alberta
Dennis Raphael
Dennis Raphael York University
Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Joan L. Bottorff
Joan L. Bottorff University of British Columbia
Susan J. Elliott
Susan J. Elliott University of Waterloo
James R. Dunn
James R. Dunn McMaster University
Pamela A. Ratner
Pamela A. Ratner University of British Columbia
Michael R. Hayden
Michael R. Hayden University of British Columbia
Jane S. Paulsen
Jane S. Paulsen University of Wisconsin–Madison

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