This list of Dr. Candace Nykiforuk’s publications can be used to better understand PLACE Research Lab work. For project-specific reports and other knowledge sharing products, please refer to the specific project work. Note: Trainees are underlined in the citations.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. Campbell EJ, Olstad DL, Spence JC, Storey KE, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2023). Was it Diffusion? Exploring the Spread of Daily Physical Activity Policies in Canada. The Health and Fitness Journal of Canada, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.14288/hfjc.v16i1.828
  2. Nykiforuk CIJ, Belon AP, de Leeuw E, Harris P, Allen-Scott L, Atkey K, Glenn NM, Hyshka E, Jaques K, Kongats K, Montesanti S, Nieuwendyk L, Pabayo R, Springett J, Yashadhana A. (2023). A Policy-Ready Public Health Guidebook of Strategies and Indicators to Promote Financial Wellbeing and Address Financial Strain in Response to COVID- 19. Preventing Chronic Disease, 20(E09). https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.220209
  3. Glenn NM, Yashadhana A, Jaques K, Belon A, de Leeuw E, Nykiforuk CIJ, Harris P. (2023). The Generative Mechanisms of Financial Strain and Financial Well-Being: A Critical Realist Analysis of Ideology and Difference. International Journal of Health Policy Management, 12:6930. doi: 10.34172/IJHPM.2022.6930
  4. Molner B, Curtin KD, Kongats K, Brown JA, Thomson M, Atkey K, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2022). Policy influencer support for active transportation policy in two Canadian provinces: Implications for advocacy. Journal of Transport and Health, 28: 101537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101537
  5. Aylward B, Milford K, Storey K, Nykiforuk C, Raine K. (2022). Citizen science in monitoring food environments: a qualitative collective case study of stakeholders’ experiences during the Local Environment Action on Food project in Alberta, Canada. BMC Public Health, 22(1):665-675. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13030-1
  6. Ryder-Burbidge CE, Wieler M, Nykiforuk CIJ, Jones A. (2022). Life-space mobility and Parkinson’s disease. A multiple-methods study. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, 9(3):351-361. Epub 2022 January 3. DOI:10.1002/mdc3.13406
  7. Lowe SAJ, MacDonald S, Senthilselvan A, Nykiforuk CIJ, Chari R, Pabayo R. (2021). Is neighbourhood income inequality associated with maternal mental health? A longitudinal analysis of pregnant and new mothers living in Calgary, Alberta. BMJ Open, 11(12); (e049220):1-10. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049220
  8. Aylward B, Milford K, Storey K, Nykiforuk C, Raine K. (2021). Local Environment Action on Food project: impact of a community-based food environment intervention in Canada. Health Promotion International, daab127:1-11. Epub 2021 August 9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab127
  9. Curtin KD, Thomson M, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2021). Who or what is to blame? Examining sociodemographic relationships to beliefs about causes, control, and responsibility for cancer and chronic disease prevention in Alberta, Canada. BMC Public Health, 21(1):1-12. Epub 2021 June 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11065-4
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  10. Brown JA, Ferdinands AR, Prowse R, Reynard D, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2021). Seeing the food swamp for the weeds: moving beyond retail food mix in evaluating young people’s food environments. SS&M – Population Health, 14:100803. E-pub 2021 April 26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100803 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000781
  11. Nejatinamini S, Godley J, Minaker LM, Sajobi TT, McCormack GR, Cooke MJ, Nykiforuk CIJ, de Koning L, Olstad DL. (2021). Quantifying the contributions of modifiable risk factors to socioeconomic inequities in cancer morbidity and mortality: a population-based cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology, Epub 2021 April 12:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab067
  12. Nykiforuk CIJ, Glenn NM, Hosler I, Crowe H, Reynard D, Molner B, Candlish J, Lowe S. (2021). Understanding urban accessibility: A community-engaged pilot study of entrance features. Social Science & Medicine, 273:113775. Epub 2021 March 1:1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113775
  13. Glenn NM, Allen Scott L, Hokanson T, Gustafson K, Stoops M, Day B, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2021). Community strategies to reduce the impact of financial strain and promote financial well-being: a comprehensive rapid review. Global Health Promotion, 28(1):42-40. Epub 2021 February 18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757975920984182
    Special issue on Health Promotion Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic, accessible at: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/ped/collections/covid-19
  14. Sim S, Veugelers P, Prowse R, Nykiforuk CIJ, Maximova K. (2020). Unhealthy food options in the school environment are associated with diet quality and body weights of children in Canada. Public Health Nutrition. Epub 2020 November 4:1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020004437
  15. Glenn NM, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2020). The time is now for public health to lead the way on addressing financial strain in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 111(6):984-987. Epub 2020 October 27: 1-4. DOI:10.17269/s41997-020-00430-2
  16. Glenn NM, Kongats K, Cowie H, Guimond JK, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2020). Promoting children’s play in Calgary, Alberta: a case study of collective impact and municipal leadership. Cities and Health, Epub 2020 July 22:1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1779994 Contributed equally as first author
  17. Campbell EJ, Olstad DL, Spence JC, Storey K, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2020). Policy-influencer perspectives on the development, adoption, and implementation of provincial school-based daily physical activity policies across Canada: a national case study. SSM – Population Health, 11. Epub 2020 June 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100612
  18. Tink L, Peers D, Nykiforuk CIJ, Kingsley B. (2020). Moving beyond ideology: contemporary recreation and the neoliberal discourses of new public health. Leisure Studies, 39(6):767-781. Epub 2020 June 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2020.1778772
  19. Atkary ML, Caron-Roy S, Sajobi T, O’Hara H, Leblanc P, Dunn S, McCormack G, Timmins D, Ball K, Downs S, Minaker LM, Nykiforuk CIJ, Godley J, Milaney K, Lashewicz B, Fournier B, Elliott C, Raine KR, Prowse R, Olstad DL. (2020). Impact of a farmers’ market nutrition coupon program on diet quality and psychosocial well-being among low-income adults: protocol for a randomized control trial and a longitudinal qualitative investigation. BMJ Open, 10:e035143. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035143. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/5/e035143.full
  20. Tink L, Peers D, Nykiforuk CIJ, Kingsley BC. (2020). “Vulnerable”, “at-risk”, “disadvantaged”: how A Framework for Recreation in Canada 2015: Pathways to Wellbeing reinscribes exclusion. Leisure / Loisir, 44(2):151-174. Epub 2020 June 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2020.1760122
  21. Ferdinands AR, Olstad DL, Milford KM, Maximova K, Nykiforuk CIJ, Raine KD. (2020). A Nutrition Report Card on food environments for children and youth: 5 years of experience from Canada. PuCNblic Health Nutrition, Epub 2020 May 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020000130
  22. Kongats K, McGetrick JA, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2020). Policy influencer and general public support for proposed alcohol healthy public policy options in Alberta and Quebec, Canada. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 81(1):47-57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2020.81.47
  23. Belon AP, Serrano-Lomelin J, Nykiforuk CIJ, Hicks A, Crawford S, Bakal J, Ospina MB. (2020). Health gradients in emergency visits and hospitalizations for pediatric respiratory diseases: a population-based retrospective cohort study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 34(2):150-160. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12639
  24. Kongats K, McGetrick JA, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2020). Using the intervention ladder to examine policy influencer and general public support for potential tobacco control policies in Alberta and Quebec. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 40(2):47-57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.40.2.03
  25. Onojeghuo AR, Nykiforuk CIJ, Belon AP, Hewes J. (2019). Behavioral mapping of children’s physical activities and social behaviors in an indoor preschool facility: methodological challenges in revealing the influence of space in play. International Journal of Health Geographics 18(26):1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-019-0191-y
  26. Tink LN, Peers D, Nykiforuk CIJ, Mayan M. (2019). Rereading the history of recreation in Canada: moving beyond the politics of health. Leisure / Loisir, 43(4):445-457. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2019.1697350
  27. McGetrick JA, Kongats K, Raine KD, Voyer C, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2019). Healthy public policy options to promote physical activity for chronic disease prevention: understanding Canadian policy influencer and general public preferences. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, Epub 2019:1-10. DOI: 10.1123/jpah.2018- 0020
  28. McLaren L, Braitstein P, Buckeridge D, Contandriopoulos D, Creatore MI, Faulkner G, Hammond D, Hoffman SJ, Kestens Y, Leatherdale S, McGavock J, Norman WV, Nykiforuk C, Ridde V, Smylie J. (2019). Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research. [Commentary]. Canadian Journal of Public Health – thematic issue on Why Public Health Matters Today, Epub 2019:1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-019-00196-2
  29. Kongats K, McGetrick JA, Raine KD, Voyer C, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2019). Assessing general public and policy influencer support for healthy public policies to promote healthy eating at the population level in two Canadian provinces. Public Health Nutrition, 22(8):1492-1502. DOI: 10.1017/S1368980018004068
  30. Cheesbrough AE, Garvin T, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2019). Everyday wild: urban natural areas, health, and well-being. Health & Place, 56:43-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.01.005
  31. Nykiforuk CIJ, McGetrick JA, Raine K, Wild TC. (2019). Advocacy coalition impacts on healthy public policy-oriented learning in Alberta, Canada (2009-2016): a difference-in-difference analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 220:31-40. Epub 2018 Oct 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.10.017
  32. Nykiforuk CIJ, Rawson D, McGetrick JA, Belon AP. (2019). Canadian policy perspectives on promoting physical activity across age-friendly communities: lessons for advocacy and action. Ageing and Society, 39(2):307-339. Epub 2017 Sep 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X17000939
  33. Nykiforuk CIJ, Hewes J, Belon A, Paradis D, Gallagher E, Gokiert R, Bisanz J, Nieuwendyk L. (2018). Evaluating child-friendly spaces: insights from a participatory mixed methods study of a municipality’s preschool free-play preschool and space. Cities & Health, special issue on child-friendly cities, 3(1-2): 169-183. Epub 2018 Dec 13. DOI: https://.org/10.1080/23748834.2018.1548894
  34. Nykiforuk CIJ, Atkey K, Brown S, Caldwell W, Galloway T, Gilliland J, McGavock J, Kongats K, Raine KD. (2018, November). Evidence synthesis – Promotion of physical activity in rural, remote, and northern settings: a Canadian call to action. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 38(11):419-435. Epub 2018 Nov 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.38.11.03a)
    Also appearing as: Promotion de l’activité physique en milieu rural ou éloigné et dans les régions du Nord : un appel pancanadien à l’action. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 38(11). Epub 2018 Nov 14.
  35. McGetrick JA, Raine KD, Wild TC, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2018) Advancing strategies for agenda setting by health policy coalitions: a network analysis of the Canadian Chronic Disease Prevention Survey. Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives (JHC: IP), 34(11):1303-1312. Epub 2018 Jun 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1484267
  36. Nykiforuk CIJ, Campbell EC, Macridis S, McKennitt D, Atkey K, Raine KD. (2018). Adoption and diffusion of zoning bylaws banning fast-food drive-through services across Canadian municipalities. BMC Public Health, 18:137. Epub 2018 Jan 15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5061-1
  37. Raine KD, Atkey K, Olstad DL, Ferdinands AR, Beaulieu D, Buhler S, Campbell NRC, Cook B, L’Abbé M, Lederer A, Mowat D, Maharaj J, Nykiforuk C, Shelley J, Street J. (2018). Healthy food procurement and nutrition standards in public facilities: evidence synthesis and consensus policy recommendations. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice (special issue on “The Food Environment in Canada – part 2”), 38(1):6-17. Epub 2018 Jan 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.38.1.03
  38. Olstad DL, Ancilotto R, Teychenne M, Minaker LM, Taber DR, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CI, Ball K. (2017). Can targeted policies reduce obesity in socioeconomically disadvantaged populations? A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, 18(7):791-807. Epub 2017 April 23. DOI: 10.1111/obr.12546
  39. Raine KD, Ferdinands AR, Atkey K, Jeffrey B, Nykiforuk C, Vanderlee L, Vogel E, von Tigerstrom B. (2017). Policy recommendations for front-of-package, shelf, and menu-labelling in Canada: moving toward consensus. (Commentary). Canadian Journal of Public Health, 108(4): e409-e413. Epub 2017 Nov. DOI: 10.17269/CJPH.108.6076 https://rdcu.be/bfNgg
  40. Contandriopoulos D, Benoit F, Bryant-Lukosius D, Carrier A, Carter N, Deber R, Duhoux A, Greenhalgh T, Larouche C, Leclerc B-S, Levy A, Martin-Misener R, Maximova K, McGrail K, Nykiforuk C, Roos N, Schwartz R, Valente TW, Wong S, Lindquist E, Pullen C, Lardeux A, Perroux M. (2017). Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada. Implementation Science, 12:116. Epub 2017 Sep. DOI: 10.1186/s13012-017-0642-4
  41. Sopcak N, Aguilar C, Nykiforuk CIJ, O’Brien MA, Aubrey-Bassler K, Cullen RM, Heatherington M, Grunfeld E, Manca DP. (2017). Patients’ perspectives on BETTER prevention and screening: qualitative findings from Newfoundland & Labrador. British Journal for General Practice (BJGP) Open. BJBP-2017-0061. Epub 2017 Aug 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen17X101037
  42. Nykiforuk CIJ, Coupland K, Nieuwendyk LM, McGetrick JA. (2018). Universal design for the rural walks of life: operationalizing walkability in Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada. Critical Public Health, 2:213-224. Epub 2017 Apr 10. DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2017.1311009
  43. Sopcak N, Aguilar C, O’Brien MA, Nykiforuk C, Aubrey-Bassler K, Cullen R, Grunfeld E, Manca DP. (2016). Implementation of the BETTER 2 program: a qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators of a novel way to improve chronic disease prevention and screening in primary care. Implementation Science, 11:158. Epub 2016 Dec. DOI: 10.1186/s13012-016-0525-0
  44. Olstad DL, Teychenne M, Minaker LM, Taber DR, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CIJ, Ball, K. (2016). Qualities of robust systematic reviews and theoretical frameworks: a response to Backholer and Peeters. (Letter to the Editor). Obesity Reviews. Epub 2016 Nov. DOI: 10.1111/obr.12483
  45. Belon AP, Nieuwendyk LM, Vallianatos H, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2016). Perceived community environmental influences on eating behaviours: a photovoice analysis. Social Science and Medicine. Epub 2016 Nov 4. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.11.0004
  46. Nykiforuk CIJ, McGetrick JA, Crick K, Johnson, JA. (2016). Check the score: field validation of Street Smart Walk Score in Alberta, Canada.Preventive Medicine Reports, 4:532-539. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.09.010
  47. Nieuwendyk LM, Belon AP, Vallianatos H, Raine KD, Schopflocher D, Spence JC, Plotnikoff RC, Nykiforuk CI. (2016). How perceptions of community environment influence health behaviours: using the Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity framework as a mechanism for exploration. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice, 36(9):175-184. Epub 2016 Sep 22.
  48. Olstad DL, Teychenne M, Minaker LM, Taber DR, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CI, Ball K. (2016). Can policy ameliorate socioeconomic inequities in obesity and obesity-related behaviours? A systematic review of the impact of universal policies on adults and children. Obesity Reviews. Epub 2016 Aug 3. DOI: 10.1111/obr.12457
  49. Lytvyak E, Olstad DL, Schopflocher DP, Plotnikoff RC, Storey KE, Nykiforuk CIJ, Raine KD. (2016). Impact of a 3-year multi-centre community-based intervention on risk factors for chronic disease and obesity among free-living adults: the Healthy Alberta Communities study. BMC Public Health, 16(1):344. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3021-1
  50. Belon AP, Nieuwendyk LM, Vallianatos H, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2016). Community lenses revealing the role of sociocultural environment on physical activity. American Journal of Health Promotion, 30(3):e92-e100. Epub 2015 May 14. DOI: 4278/ajhp.140428-QUAL-169
  51. Hammal F, Wild TC, Nykiforuk C, Abdullahi K, Mussie D, Finegan B. (2016). Waterpipe (hookah) smoking among youth and women in Canada is new not traditional. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 18(5):757-62. Epub 2015 Jul 17. DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv152
  52. Olstad DL, Campbell EJ, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CI. (2015). A multiple case history and review of adoption, diffusion, implementation and impact of provincial daily physical activity policies in Canadian schools. BMC Public Health, 15:385. Epub 2015 April 14. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1669-6
  53. Manca DP, Campbell-Scherer D, Aubrey-Bassler K, Kandola K, Aguilar C, Baxter J, Meaney C, Salvalaggio G, Carroll JC, Faria V, Nykiforuk C, Grunfeld E. (2015). Developing clinical decision tools to implement chronic disease prevention and screening in primary care: the BETTER 2 program (building on existing tools to improve chronic disease prevention and screening in primary care). Implementation Science, 10(1):107. DOI:1186/s13012-015-0299-9
  54. Hammer B, Vallianatos H, Nykiforuk CIJ, Nieuwendyk L. (2015). Perceptions of healthy eating in four Alberta communities: a photovoice project. Agriculture and Human Values, 32:1-14. Epub 2015 Jan 23. DOI: 10.1007/s10460-015-9583-1
  55. Olstad DL, Raine KD, Nykiforuk CI. (2014). Development of a report card on healthy food environments and nutrition for children in Canada. Preventive Medicine, 69:287-295. Epub 2014 Oct 28. DOI:10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.10.023
  56. Nykiforuk CIJ, Wild TC, Raine KD. (2014). Cancer beliefs and prevention policies: comparing Canadian decision-maker and general population views. Cancer Causes and Control, 25(12):1683-1696. Epub 2014 Oct 16. DOI 10.1007/s10552-014-0474-3
  57. Raine KD, Nykiforuk CIJ, Vu-Nguyen TK, Nieuwendyk L, VanSpronsen E, Reed S, Wild TC. (2014). Understanding key influencers’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about healthy public policy change for obesity prevention. Obesity, 22(11):2426-2433. Epub 2014 Aug 6. DOI:10.1002/oby.20860
  58. Belon AP, Nieuwendyk L, Vallianatos H, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2014). How community environment shapes physical activity: perceptions revealed through the PhotoVoice method. Social Science & Medicine, 116:10-21. Epub 2014 Jun 17. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.027
  59. Minaker LM, Raine KD, Wild TC, Nykiforuk C, Thompson ME, Frank LD. (2014). Construct validation of 4 food-environment assessment methods: adapting a multitrait-multimethod matrix approach for environmental measures. American Journal of Epidemiology, 179(4):519-28. Epub 2013 Nov 20. DOI: 1093/aje/kwt272
  60. Pleson E, Nieuwendyk LM, Lee K, Chaddah A, Nykiforuk CIJ, Schopflocher D. (2014). Understanding older adults’ usage of community green spaces in Taipei, Taiwan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(2):1444-1464. DOI: 3390/ijerph110201444
  61. Schopflocher D, VanSpronsen E, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2014). Relating built environment to physical activity: two failures to validate. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(2):1233-1249. DOI: 3390/ijerph110201233
  62. Raine KD, Sosa Hernandez C, Nykiforuk CIJ, Reed S, Montemurro G, Lytvyak E, MacLellan-Wright M-F. (2014). Measuring the progress of capacity building in the Alberta Policy Coalition for Cancer Prevention. Health Promotion Practice, 15(4):496-505. Epub 2013 Dec 13. DOI:1177/1524839913511627
  63. Montemurro G, Raine K, Nykiforuk CIJ, Mayan M. (2014). Exploring the process of capacity-building among community-based health promotion workers in Alberta, Canada. Health Promotion International, 29(3):463-73. Epub 2013 Feb 27. DOI: 1093/heapro/dat008 PMID: 23445941
  64. Belon A, Nykiforuk C. (2013). Possibilities and challenges for physical and social environment research in Brazil: a systematic literature review on health behaviors. Cadernos de Saude Publica/Reports in Public Health, 29(10):1955-1973.
  65. Minaker LM, Raine KD, Wild TC, Nykiforuk CIJ, Thompson ME, Frank LD. (2013). Objective food environments and health outcomes: associations not mediated by perceptions. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 45(3):289-96. DOI: 1016/j.amepre.2013.05.008
  66. Raine KD, Plotnikoff R, Schopflocher D, Lytvyak E, Nykiforuk CIJ, Storey K, Ohinmaa A, Purdy L, Veugelers P, Wild TC. (2013). Healthy Alberta Communities: impact of a three-year community-based obesity and chronic disease prevention intervention. Preventive Medicine (special issue on Population Health Intervention Research), 57(6):955-962. Epub 2013 Sep 6. DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.08.024
  67. Steadman R, Nykiforuk CIJ, Vallianatos H. (2013). Active aging: hiking, walking, health, and healing. Anthropology & Aging Quarterly, 34(3):87-99.
  68. Sanga M, Schopflocher D, Raine K, Nykiforuk C, Plotnikoff R. (2013). Adjusting divergences between self-reported and measured height and weight in an adult Canadian population. American Journal of Health Behavior, 37(6):841-850. DOI: 5993/AJHB.37.6.13
  69. Mumtaz Z, Salway S, Nykiforuk C, Bhatti A, Attaullahjan A, Ayyalasomayajula B. (2013). The role of social geography on Lady Health Workers’ mobility and effectiveness in Pakistan. Social Science & Medicine, 91:48-57. Epub 2013 May 18. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.05.007
  70. Lovato C, Watts A, Brown KS, Lee D, Sabiston C, Nykiforuk C, Eyles J, Manske S, Campbell HS, Thompson M. (2013). School and community predictors of smoking: a longitudinal study of Canadian high schools. American Journal of Public Health, 103:362-368. Epub 2012 Dec 13. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300922
  71. Shopik NA, Schultz A, Nykiforuk CIJ, Finegan B, Kvern M. (2013). Impact of smoke-free grounds policies: patient experiences and perceptions. Health Policy, 108(1):93-99. Epub 2012 Aug 30. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.08.006. PMID: 22940063
  72. Nykiforuk CIJ, Schopflocher D, Vallianatos H, Spence JC, Raine KD, Plotnikoff RC, VanSpronsen E, Nieuwendyk LM. (2013). Community Health and the Built Environment: examining place in a Canadian chronic disease prevention project. Health Promotion International, 28(2):257-268. Epub 2012 Jan 6. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dar093
  73. Garvin T, Johnson S, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2012). Can we get old here? Seniors’ perceptions of seasonal constraints of neighbourhood built environments in a northern, winter city. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 94(4):369-389.
  74. Nykiforuk CIJ, Nieuwendyk LM, 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(9, Suppl 3: Canadian Evidence on Built Environment and Health):eS67-eS72. PMID: 23618093
  75. Schopflocher D, VanSpronsen E, Spence JC, Vallianatos H, Raine KD, Plotnikoff R, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2012). Creating neighbourhood groupings based on built environment features to facilitate health promotion activities. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 103(9): 103(9, Suppl 3: Canadian Evidence on Built Environment and Health):eS61-eS66.
  76. Raine KD, Muhajarine N, Spence JC, Neary NE, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2012). Coming to consensus on policy to create supportive built environments and community design. (Commentary). Canadian Journal of Public Health, 103(9, Suppl 3: Canadian Evidence on Built Environment and Health):eS5-eS8.
  77. Nykiforuk CIJ, Humeniuk A. (2012). Geographic Information Systems. (Annotated Bibliography). In: Oxford Bibliographies Online: Public Health, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com (Commissioned review). Oxford University Press.
  78. Pittman TP, Nykiforuk CIJ, Mignone J, Mandhane PJ, Becker AB, Kozyrskyj AL. (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. Epub 2012 Feb 16. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph9020579
  79. Schultz AS, Finegan B, Nykiforuk CIJ, Kvern MA. (2011). A qualitative investigation of smoke-free policies on hospital grounds. CMAJ, 183(18):E1334-44. Epub 2011 Oct 31. DOI:1503/cmaj.110235 PMID: 22042991
  80. Nykiforuk CIJ, Vallianatos H, Flaman L. (2011). Photovoice as a method for revealing community perceptions of the built and social environment. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 10(2):103-124. DOI: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/160940691101000201
  81. Montemurro G, Berry TR, Spence JC, Nykiforuk C, Blanchard CW, Cutumisu N. (2011). “Walkable by willpower”: resident perceptions of neighbourhood environments. Health & Place, 17(4):895-901. Epub 2011 May 1. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.04.010
  82. Nykiforuk C, Flaman L. (2011). Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for health promotion and public health: a review. Health Promotion Practice, 12(1):63-73. Epub 2009 Jun 22. DOI: 10.1177/1524839909334624
  83. Flaman LM, Plotnikoff RC, Nykiforuk CIJ, Raine K. (2011). Mechanisms for understanding the facilitators and barriers to capacity building for chronic disease prevention activities: an illustration. Health Promotion Practice, 12(6):858-866. Epub 2010 Aug 20. DOI: 10.1177/1524839910366424
  84. Lovato CY, Pullman AW, Halpin P, Zeisser C, Nykiforuk CIJ, Best F, Diener 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): A129. Epub 2010 Oct 15.
    Also appearing as: Lovato CY, Pullman AW, Halpin P, Zeisser C, Nykiforuk CIJ, Best F, Diener A, Manske S. (2010). INVESTIGACIÓN ORIGINAL Influencia de los reglamentos antitabaco de las escuelas en los estudiantes de 5. o a 9. o grados, Canadá, 2004-2005. INVESTIGACIÓN, 7(6), 09_0199_es.
  85. Raine KD, Plotnikoff R, Nykiforuk C, Deegan H, Hemphill E, Storey K, Schopflocher D, Veugelers P, Wild TC, 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. Epub 2010 Sep 3. DOI: 10.1007/s00038-010-0187-7 
  86. Nykiforuk CIJ, Osler GE, Viehbeck S. (2010). The evolution of smoke-free spaces policy literature: a bibliometric analysis. Health Policy, 97(1):1-7. Epub 2010 Apr 8. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.03.001
  87. Berry TR, Spence JC, 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. Epub 2010 Feb 16. DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2010.36
  88. Flaman LM, Nykiforuk CIJ, Plotnikoff RC, 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. DOI: 10.1177/1757975910365225
  89. Clark MI, Berry TR, Spence JC, 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. Epub 2009 Aug 20. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.08.001
  90. McDonald PW, Viehbeck S, Robinson SJ, Leatherdale ST, Nykiforuk CIJ, Jolin MA. (2009). Building research capacity for evidence-informed tobacco control in Canada: a case description. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 5(1):1-12. DOI: 10.1186/1617-9625-5-12
  91. Sabiston CM, Lovato CY, Ahmed R, Pullman AW, Hadd V, Campbell HS, Nykiforuk C, Brown KS. (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. Epub 2009 Jun 7. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-009-9422-z.
  92. Nykiforuk CIJ, Eyles J, Campbell HS. (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. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2007.00727.x
  93. Lovato CY, Sabiston CM, Hadd V, Nykiforuk CIJ, Campbell HS. (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. Epub 2006 Sep 20.
  94. Lovato CY, Hsu HC, Sabiston C, Hadd V, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2007). Tobacco point-of-purchase in school neighbourhoods and school smoking prevalence: a descriptive study. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 98(4):265-270.
  95. Nykiforuk CIJ, Campbell HS, Cameron R, Brown KS, Eyles J. (2007). Relationships between community characteristics and municipal smoke-free bylaw status and strength. Health Policy, 80:358-368. Epub 2006 May 6.
  96. Nykiforuk C, Gavin T, Yessis J, Spencer A, Lauzon N, Pearce N, Cyarto L. (2003). Students’ perspective of the CES Case Competition. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 18(1):101-106. (Commissioned paper).
  97. Hogg W, Baskerville N, Nykiforuk C, Mallen D. (2002). Improved preventive care in family practices with outreach facilitation: understanding success and failure. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 7(4):195-201.
  98. Smale BJA, Nykiforuk CIJ. (2001). Tourism generating regions in Canada: factors associated with travel patterns and tourist behaviours. Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) Implementation Project: Enzo Paci Papers on Measuring the Economic Significance of Tourism, Volume 1. Madrid, Spain: World Tourism Organization. ISBN: 92-844-0423-1. (Commissioned paper).

Book Chapters, Peer Reviewed

  1. Nykiforuk CIJ, Nieuwendyk LM, Humeniuk A, Klaver K. (2014/10/1). The ‘Community Action Dash’: resident and visitor perceptions of an inner city neighbourhood during a community-led event. In: Moufakkir, O., & Pernecky, T. (Eds.), Ideological, Social and Cultural Aspects of Events. Oxfordshire, UK: CABI.
  2. Nykiforuk CIJ. (2014/2/25). Chapter 20: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in public health. In: Guest, G. (Ed.), Public Health Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
  3. Smale BJA, Nykiforuk CIJ. (1999). Chapter 7 – Tourism generating regions in Canada: factors associated with travel patterns and tourist behaviours. In: Murray, S., McPhie, P., Gendron, F., & Schaienks, D., (Eds.), Tourism Statistical Digest (pp. 84-92). Ottawa, ON: Tourism Statistics Programme, Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 87-403-XIE, ISSN: 1488-3090.

Proceedings and Working Papers, Peer Reviewed

  1. Nykiforuk C. Healthy Societies. (2022). Austrian Academy of Sciences & Royal Society of Canada – Joint Academy Day; Virtual (18 March 2021). Proceedings: Austrian Academy of Sciences ‘Akademie im Dialog’ 24, pp.105, 118-119. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/NEWS/2022/PDF/Akademie_im_Dialog_24_Joint_Academy_Day_2021.pdf
  2. McGetrick JA, Nykiforuk CIJ, Leewans M. (2019). Bill C-69: Hang out a shingle for HIA (r)evolution. Session: The Recent Reform for Federal EA Law in Canada: Evolution or Revolution? International Association for Impact Assessment IAIA19 Conference Proceedings. Available at https://conferences.iaia.org/2019/uploads/edited-presentations/50_McGetrick_Hang-Out-a-Shingle.pdf
  3. Campbell HS, Burt S, Nykiforuk C, Mayhew L, Kawash B. (2005). Understanding the policy process at the local level: the role of issue framing in environmental tobacco smoke bylaw development in the region of Waterloo. OTRU Working Paper Series No. 83. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto, Ontario Tobacco Reduction Unit.
  4. Nykiforuk CIJ, Eagles PFJ. (2002). Perceptions of ISO 9004 quality service management standards for visitor services: what do Parks Canada employees really think? In: Bondrop-Nielsen, S., & Munro, N.W.P. (Eds.) Managing Protected Areas in a Changing World: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Science and the Management of Protected Areas (pp. 1015-1026). SAMPAA: Wolfville, NS.
  5. Nykiforuk C, Eagles PFJ. (1999). Standards for service quality: is there a place for them in the Parks Canada system? In: Ontario: Proceedings of the Parks Research Forum of Ontario (PRFO) (pp. 153-160). Guelph, ON.

Published Abstracts, Peer Reviewed

  1. Nejatinamini S, Godley J, Minaker LM, Sajobi TT, McCormack GR, Cooke MJ, Nykiforuk CIJ, de Koning L, Olstad DL. (2020). Low fruit and vegetable intake does not mediate associations between low socioeconomic position and cancer morbidity and mortality: a nationally representative population-based cohort study. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 2020, 45(4): S37.
  2. Serrano-Lomelin J, Belon A, Nykiforuk C, Ospina M. (2019). Health inequality patterns in respiratory diseases during early childhood: a population-based study in Alberta, Canada. 2019 Canadian Respiratory Conference abstracts, Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, 3:sup1, 1-52, [p32]. DOI: 10.1080/24745332.2019.1623590
  3. Nykiforuk C, McGetrick JA, Nieuwendyk L, Coupland K. (2017). Universal design for the rural walks of life: operationalizing walkability in Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada. Journal of Transport & Health, 7(S5:06 Experiencing and Perceiving the Walking Environment): S74.
  4. Yang Y, Springett J, Nykiforuk C, Vallianatos H. (2014). Building health capability and health literacy: exploring Chinese international students’ experiences with social support in a Canadian context. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 13:565-66.
  5. Belon AP, Nykiforuk CIJ, Nieuwendyk L, Vallianatos H. (2013). Revealing perceptions of the role of environment in physical activity through community lenses. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 12:698.
  6. Nykiforuk C, Schopflocher D, VanSpronsen EP, Spence J, Plotnikoff R, Raine K, Vallianatos H, Nieuwendyk L, Mitha S, Cutumisu N. (2011). Quantifying the association between measured feature of the built environment and individual health outcomes: a cross-community comparison. Canadian Journal of Diabetes, 35(2):157.
  7. Raine,KD, Nykiforuk CI, Wild TC, Flaman L, VanSpronsen E, Trithart S. (2011). What is the appetite for policy actions to address obesity? Canadian Journal of Diabetes, 35(2):152.
  8. Nykiforuk CIJ, Schopflocher DP, Vallianatos H, Raine K, Plotnikoff RC, Spence JC, VanSpronsen E, Flaman L. (2010). The role of built and social environments in obesity reduction. Obesity Reviews, 11(Suppl.1):458.
  9. Raine K, Plotnikoff RC, Storey KE, Schopflocher DP, Nykiforuk CIJ, Purdy LE, Veugelers PJ, Wild TC. (2010). Healthy Alberta communities: impact of a three-year community-based obesity prevention intervention. Obesity Reviews, 11(Suppl.1):454.
  10. Shopik N, Schultz A, Nykiforuk C, Kvern M, Finegan B. (2010). Patient perspectives of tobacco use management in smoke-free grounds hospitals. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 9(4):425.
  11. Olstad DL, Hutton L, Nykiforuk C, McCargar LJ, Raine KD. (2010). Catalyzing nutrition policy in Alberta: advocacy for implementing the Alberta Nutrition Guidelines for Children and Youth in recreational facilities. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 35(3):413.
  12. Nykiforuk C, Raine K, Schopflocher D, Vallianatos H, VanSpronsen E, Flaman L. (2009). The role of the built environment in community interventions for obesity prevention. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 34(2):240.

Invited Commentary or Editorial

  • Nykiforuk CIJ. (2021). Engaging patients in research using photovoice methodology. CMAJ, 193. Epub 2021 July 12. DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.210963 https://www.cmaj.ca/content/193/27/E1050
  • Nykiforuk CIJ, Vallianatos H. (2018). Reflections on photovoice as a method for revealing community perceptions of the built and social environment. International Journal of Qualitative Methods: Top 20 in 20 Special Edition, 17(1): 1609406918788236. Epub 2018.– Invited commentary on original (2011) paper, which was selected for inclusion as top 20 in 20 years of IJQM.