Katherine Frohlich

Chercheur régulier (trad)

Katherine Frohlich s’intéresse particulièrement aux «modes de vie collectifs», qu’elle tente de modéliser. Selon elle, comme la structure de la société détermine les pratiques sociales et les choix de l’individu, elle a un impact direct sur la santé de la population.

Intérêts de recherche :Promotion de la santé, épidémiologie sociale - les inégalités sociales de la santé - les pratiques de santé - la théorie sociale et la santé des populations

Poste actuel (trad)

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Professeure adjointe
Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal

Assistant Professor
Département de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, Université de Montréal

Research Associate
Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Research Associate
Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Santé (GRIS), Université de Montréal

Formation (trad)

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Ph.D. Santé publique
University of Montreal, 2000

M.Sc. Santé communautaire
University of Montreal, 1996

B.A. Honours: Political Science
McGill University, 1991

Programme de recherche (trad)

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Katherine Frohlich is currently finishing up some pilot work, funded through the CIHR/CTCRI on the social context of smoking. Through this work she has developed an in-depth tool to help both researchers and practitioners better understand how smoking is embedded in people's everyday activities. She is also helping develop, in collaboration with the Lea Roback Centre through its axis "Enquête sur les milieux", a study to examine the role of neighbourhoods over time in shaping social inequalities in health using smoking as an outcome.

Comment le programme de recherche répond-il aux Questions de recherche du Centre (trad)

Comment les inégalités sociales se transforment-t-elles en inégalités de santé? (trad) |

Thèmes de recherche du Centre abordés par le programmes (trad)

Espaces urbains | Prévention et promotion de la santé (trad) |

Principales contributions de recherche (trad)

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"A theoretical proposal for the relationship between context and disease" (Frohlich, K. L., Corin, E., Potvin, L. Sociology of Health and Illness, 23 (6), 776-797 (2001)) has been cited well over 20 times in both the public health, as well as the sociological literature. The framework developed therein, the collective lifestyles framework, continues to attract students and create a forum for future work.
The "Social theory and population health" workshop that I ran from 2002-2003 led to several publications as well as the creation of a network of researchers across Canada who continue to work on this issue.
My continued work on the social context of smoking has led to the creation of several funded research projects, a team of researchers from across the country, and increased interest from both researchers as well as practitioners in the integration of the social context into existing models of intervention.

Lieux d'influence (trad)

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Tribune politique (trad)

Frohlich, K.L., Ross, N. (2003). Theoretical Pathways to Health Disparities in Canada. Report submitted to Health Canada. This report is being used under the name: "Réduire les disparités sur le plan de la santé - Rôles du secteur de la santé. Document de travail" by the Groupe de travail sur les disparités en matière de santé du Comité consultatif fédéral-provincial-territorial sur la santé de la population et la sécurité de la santé to try to influence government to focus on the reduction of social inequalities in health.

Direction d'étudiants-es (trad)

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Doctorat
Anika Mendell (Community Health, UdeM, since 09/2006)
Kim Engler (Community Health, UdeM, since 01/2006)
Treena Delorimiers (Community Health, UdeM, since 09/2002)

Masters
Stephanie Alexander (Community Health, UdeM, since 09/2005)

Publications choisies (trad)

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Frohlich, K. L., Potvin, L. (1999). Health promotion through the lens of population health: Toward a salutogenic setting. Critical Public Health, 9, 211-222.

Frohlich, K. L., Corin, E., Potvin, L. (2001) A theoretical proposal for the relationship between context and disease. Sociology of Health and Illness, 23 (6), 776-797.

Frohlich, K. L., Potvin, L., Chabot, P., Corin, E. (2002). A theoretical and empirical analysis of context : Neighbourhoods, smoking and youth. Social Science and Medicine 54(9), 1401-1417.

Frohlich, K. L., Potvin, L., Gauvin, L., Chabot, P. (2002). Youth smoking initiation. Disentangling context from composition. Health and Place 8(3), 155-166.

Frohlich, K. L., Mykhalovskiy, E., Miller, F., & Daniel, M. (2004). Advancing the population health agenda: Encouraging the integration of social theory into population health. Canadian Journal of Public Health 95(5), 392-395.

Poland, B., Frohlich, K. L., Haines, R., Mykhalovskiy, E., Rock, M., Sparks, R. (2006). The social context of smoking : The next frontier in tobacco control? Tobacco Control, 15(1), 59-63.

Frohlich, K. L., Dunn, J., McLaren, L, Shiell, A., Potvin, L., Hawe, P., Dassa, C., Thurston, W. Understanding place and health: A heuristic tool for using secondary data. In press with Health and Place.