Katherine Frohlich

Poste(s) actuel(s)

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

Programme de recherche

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.

I. Question(s) de recherche du Centre abordée(s) par le programme

Comment les inégalités sociales se transforment-t-elles en inégalités de santé?

II. Thème(s) de recherche abordé(s) par le programme

Espaces urbains

Prévention et promotion de la santé

Principales contributions de recherche

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. This article 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

Direction d'étudiants-es

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

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.