Refereed Publications

(Selected)

Lovato C.Y., Watts, A.W., Brown, K.S., Lee, D.G., Sabiston, C.M., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Eyles, J., Manske, S., Campbell, H.S., Thompson, M. (Accepted, May 2012). School and community predictors of smoking: A longitudinal study of Canadian high schools. American Journal of Public Health.

Nykiforuk, C.I.J., & Humeniuk, A. (In Press, 2012). Geographic Information Systems. (Annotated Bibliography). In: Oxford Bibliographies Online: Public Health, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com (Commissioned review).

Raine, K.D., Muhajarine, N., Spence, J.C., Neary, N.E., & Nykiforuk, C.I.J. (2012). Coming to consensus on policy to create supportive built environments and community design. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 103(Suppl. 3), S5-S8.

Schopflocher, D., VanSpronsen, E., Spence, J.C., Vallianatos, H., Raine, K.D., Plotnikoff, R.C., & Nykiforuk, C.I.J. (2012). Creating neighbourhood groupings based on built environment features to facilitate health promotion activities. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 103(Suppl. 3), S61-S66.

Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Nieuwendyk, L.M., Mitha, S., & Hosler, I. (2012). Examining aspects of the built environment: An evaluation of a community walking map project. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 103(Suppl. 3), S67-S72.

Pittman, T.P., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Mignone, J., Mandhane, P.J., Becker, A.B., & Kozyrskyj, A.L. (2012). The association between community stressors and asthma prevalence of school children in Winnipeg. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 9(2), 579-595. doi:10.3390/ijerph9020579

Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Schopflocher, D., Vallianatos, H., Spence, J.C., Raine, K.D., Plotnikoff, R.C., VanSpronsen, E., & Nieuwendyk, L.M. (2012). Community Health and the Built Environment: examining place in a Canadian chronic disease prevention project. Health Promotion International; published ahead of print January 6, 2012. doi:10.1093/heapro/dar093

Schultz, A.S.H., Finegan, B., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., & Kvern, M.A. (2011). A qualitative investigation of smoke-free policies on hospital grounds. CMAJ; published ahead of print October 31, 2011. doi:10.1503/cmaj.110235

Montemurro, G., Berry, T.R., Spence, J.C., Nykiforuk, C., Blanchard, C.W., & Cutumisu, N. (2011). “Walkable by willpower”: Resident perceptions of neighbourhood environments. Health & Place, 17(4), 895-901.

Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Vallianatos, H., & Nieuwendyk, L.M. (2011). Photovoice as a method for revealing community perceptions of the built and social environment. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 10(2), 103-124.

Nykiforuk, C., & Flaman, L. (2011). Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for health promotion and public health: A review. Health Promotion Practice, 12(1), 63-73; advance online publication, June 22, 2009. doi:10.1177/1524839909334624

Berry, T.R., Spence, J.C., Blanchard, C., Cutumitsu, N., Edwards, J., & Nykiforuk, C. (2010). Changes in BMI over 6 years: The role of demographic and neighborhood characteristics. International Journal of Obesity (Lond), 34, 1275-1283.

Clark, M.I., Berry, T.R., Spence, J.C., Nykiforuk, C., Carlson, M., & Blanchard, C. (2010). Key stakeholder perspectives on the development of walkable neighbourhoods and food security. Health & Place, 16(1), 43-50.

Flaman, L.M., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Plotnikoff, R.C., & Raine, K. (2010). Exploring facilitators and barriers to individual and organizational level capacity building: Outcomes of participation in a community priority setting workshop. Global Health Promotion, 17(2), 34-43.

Flaman, L.M., Plotnikoff, R.C., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., & Raine, K. (2010). Mechanisms for understanding the facilitators and barriers to capacity building for chronic disease prevention activities: An illustration. Health Promotion Practice, advance online publication, 20 August 2010. doi: 10.1177/1524839910366424

Lovato, C.Y., Pullman, A.W., Halpin, P., Zeisser, C., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Best, F., Deiner, A., & Manske, S. (2010). The influence of school policies on smoking prevalence among students in grades 5-9 Canada, 2004-2005. Preventing Chronic Disease, 7(6).

Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Osler, G.E., & Viehbeck, S. (2010). The evolution of smoke-free spaces policy literature: A bibliometric analysis. Health Policy, 97(1), 1-7.

Raine, K.D., Plotnikoff, R., Nykiforuk, C., Deegan, H., Hemphill, E., Storey, K., Schopflocher, D., Veugelers, P., Wild, T. C., & Ohinmaa, A. (2010). Reflections on community-based population health intervention and evaluation for obesity and chronic disease prevention: the Healthy Alberta Communities project. International Journal of Public Health, 55(6), 679-686.

McDonald, P.W., Viehbeck, S., Robinson, S.J., Leatherdale, S.T., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., & Jolin, M.A. (2009). Building research capacity for evidence-informed tobacco control in Canada: A case description. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 5(12). doi:10.1186/1617-9625-5-12

Sabiston, C.M., Lovato, C.Y., Ahmed, R., Pullman, A.W., Hadd, V., Campbell, H.S., Nykiforuk, C., & Brown, K.S. (2009). School smoking policy characteristics and individual perceptions of the school tobacco context: Are they linked to students’ smoking status? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 1374-1387. doi: 10.1007/s10964-009-9422-z

Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Eyles, J., & Campbell, H.S. (2008). Smoke-free spaces over place and time: A policy diffusion study of bylaw development in Alberta and Ontario, Canada. Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(1), 64-74.

Lovato, C.Y., Hsu, H.C.H., Sabiston, C., Hadd, V., & Nykiforuk, C.I.J. (2007). Tobacco point-of-purchase in school neighbourhoods and school smoking prevalence: A descriptive study. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 98(4), 265-270.

Lovato, C.Y., Sabiston, C.M., Hadd, V., Nykiforuk, C.I.J., & Campbell, H.S. (2007). The impact of school smoking policies and student perceptions of enforcement on school smoking prevalence and location of smoking. Health Education Research, 22(6), 782-793.

Nykiforuk, C.I.J., Campbell, H.S., Cameron, R., Brown, K.S., & Eyles, J. (2007). Relationships between community characteristics and municipal smoke-free bylaw status and strength. Health Policy, 80, 358-368.