Author(s): van Allen Z; Bacon SL; Bernard P; Brown H; Desroches S; Kastner M; Lavoie KL; Marques MM; McCleary N; Straus S; Taljaard M; Thavorn K; Tomasone JR; Presseau J;

Background: Health behaviors such as physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, smoking tobacco, and alcohol use are each leading risk factors for non-communicable chronic disease. Better understanding which behaviors tend to co-occur (i.e., cluster together) and co-vary (i.e., are correlated) may pr ...

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Author(s): Lavoie K; Gosselin-Boucher V; Stojanovic J; Gupta S; Gagné M; Joyal-Desmarais K; Séguin K; Gorin SS; Ribeiro P; Voisard B; Vallis M; Corace K; Presseau J; Bacon S;

Objective: To examine rates of vaccine hesitancy and their correlates among Canadian adults between April 2020 and March 2021. Design: Five sequential cross-sectional age, sex and province-weighted population-based samples who completed online surveys. Setting: Canada. Participants: A total of ...

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Author(s): Vallis M; Bacon S; Corace K; Joyal-Desmarais K; Sheinfeld Gorin S; Paduano S; Presseau J; Rash J; Mengistu Yohannes A; Lavoie K;

Governments, public health officials and pharmaceutical companies have all mobilized resources to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns, social distancing, and personal protective behaviours have been helpful but have shut down economies and disrupted normal activities. Vaccinations protect po ...

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Author(s): van Allen Z; Bacon SL; Bernard P; Brown H; Desroches S; Kastner M; Lavoie K; Marques M; McCleary N; Straus S; Taljaard M; Thavorn K; Tomasone JR; Presseau J;

<strong>Background:</strong> Health behaviors such as physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, smoking tobacco, and alcohol use are leading risk factors for noncommunicable chronic diseases and play a central role in limiting health and life satisfaction. To date, however, health behavi ...

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