Search Results - "Dyck, Isabel"

Individual and Societal Influences on Participation in Physical Activity Following Spinal Cord Injury: A Qualitative Study by Levins, Stephen M, Redenbach, Darlene M, Dyck, Isabel

“…Despite evidence that physical activity, a tool of rehabilitation, affects health and improves functional ability in people following spinal cord injury (SCI),…”
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Migrant mothers, home and emotional capital - hidden citizenship practices by Dyck, Isabel

“…This paper is based on a set of qualitative studies in Vancouver, Canada, that investigated how migrants from different source countries re-made "home" in its…”
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Using Qualitative Methods in Medical Geography: Deconstructive Moments in a Subdiscipline? by Dyck, Isabel

“…As medical geography reinvents itself as health geography, the linkages between social theory and the deconstruction of central categories organizing its…”
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Managing the body work of home care by England, Kim, Dyck, Isabel

“…Body work is a key element of home healthcare. Recent restructuring of health and social care services means the home is increasingly a key site of long‐term…”
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Migrant Workers in Home Care: Routes, Responsibilities, and Respect by England, Kim, Dyck, Isabel

“…We consider the increasingly common provision of home-based health care by migrant care workers. In particular, we explore the racial division of paid…”
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Feminist geography, the 'everyday', and local-global relations: hidden spaces of place-making by Dyck, Isabel

“…An interest in the taken‐for‐granted, mundane routine activities of women's lives has long been central to the production of knowledge in feminist geography…”
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Place, health and home: Gender and migration in the constitution of healthy space by Dyck, Isabel, Dossa, Parin

“…This paper contributes to recent literature that considers the role of everyday activity in constructing ‘healthy space’, specifically exploring the tension…”
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Fear, family and the placing of emotion: Black women's responses to a breast cancer awareness intervention by Brown, Tim, Dyck, Isabel, Greenhough, Beth, Raven-Ellison, Menah, Dembinsky, Melanie, Ornstein, Mark, Duffy, Stephen W.

“…This paper is based upon findings from the qualitative element of a mixed-methods study on the response of Black women aged 25–50 to a public health…”
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Travelling tales and migratory meanings: South Asian migrant women talk of place, health and healing by Dyck, Isabel

“…Geographers are bringing together narrative approaches and insights from cultural and feminist geography in building a body of work that examines the links…”
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The home as a site for long-term care: meanings and management of bodies and spaces by Dyck, Isabel, Kontos, Pia, Angus, Jan, McKeever, Patricia

“…This paper is concerned with the constitution of the home as a landscape of care in a climate of extensive cost-cutting measures to community provided health…”
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Feminism and Health Geography: twin tracks or divergent agendas? by DYCK, ISABEL

“…Feminist geographies of health and illness have emerged over the last 10 years, marking an increased interest in the highly gendered nature of health, health…”
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Managing the body work of home care: Body work in health and social care: critical themes, new agendas by ENGLAND, Kim, DYCK, Isabel

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“They say it's more aggressive in black women”: Biosociality, breast cancer, and becoming a population “at risk” by Brown, Tim, Dyck, Isabel, Greenhough, Beth, Raven‐Ellison, Menah, Ornstein, Mark, Duffy, Stephen W.

“…Recent geographical scholarship has drawn attention to the ways in which the practice of public health constructs particular bodies and populations as “risky.”…”
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Migrant narratives of health and well-being: Challenging ‘othering’ processes through photo-elicitation interviews by Ortega-Alcázar, Iliana, Dyck, Isabel

“…This paper concerns the use of photo-elicitation interviews in constructing migrant narratives of health and well-being. It argues that photo-elicitation can…”
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Introduction: The gendered geographies of 'bodies across borders' by Greenhough, Beth, Parry, Bronwyn, Dyck, Isabel, Brown, Tim

“…This paper introduces the articles that comprise the themed section 'bodies across borders' which investigates how the social and spatial dynamics of…”
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Social determinants of health in Canada’s immigrant population: results from the National Population Health Survey by Dunn, James R, Dyck, Isabel

“…As part of the Metropolis project — a large-scale investigation of immigration and integration, including well-being of immigrants in a number of areas of…”
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Evaluating a DVD promoting breast cancer awareness among black women aged 25–50 years in East London by Greenhough, Beth, Dembinsky, Melanie, Dyck, Isabel, Brown, Tim, Robson, John, Homer, Kate, Sajani, Cynthia, Carter, Lucy, Duffy, Stephen W, Ornstein, Mark

“…BackgroundThe mean age of presentation for breast cancer among black women is substantially earlier than their white counterparts. Black women also present…”
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The personal significance of home: habitus and the experience of receiving long‐term home care by Angus, Jan, Kontos, Pia, Dyck, Isabel, McKeever, Patricia, Poland, Blake

“…The physical, symbolic and experiential aspects of receiving long‐term care are examined in this paper using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and field. We draw…”
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Evaluating a DVD promoting breast cancer awareness among black women aged 25-50years in East London by Greenhough, Beth, Dembinsky, Melanie, Dyck, Isabel, Brown, Tim, Robson, John, Homer, Kate, Sajani, Cynthia, Carter, Lucy, Duffy, Stephen W, Ornstein, Mark

“…BackgroundThe mean age of presentation for breast cancer among black women is substantially earlier than their white counterparts. Black women also present…”
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Hidden geographies: The changing lifeworlds of women with multiple sclerosis by Dyck, Isabel

“…This paper discusses the microgeographies of unemployed women with multiple sclerosis, as they manage the physical, social and economic consequences of their…”
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