Equity and Vulnerable Populations

Publications authored by CHSPR faculty and staff from 2009 to the present are listed here. Older peer-reviewed publications are usually available from individual journals and can be searched for using PubMed. Older reports published by CHSPR (from 1973) are available from the UBC Library cIRcle database. If you cannot find a specific publication, please contact us.


Wong ST, Lynam MJ, Khan KB, Scott L, Loock C. The social paediatrics initiative: a RICHER model of primary health care for at risk children and their families. BMC Pediatr. 2012 Oct 4;12:158. Read more

Puyat JH, Law MR, Wong ST, Sutherland JM, Morgan SG. The essential and potentially inappropriate use of antipsychotics across income groups: an analysis of linked administrative data. Can J Psychiatry. 2012 Aug;57(8):488-95. Read more

MacEntee MI, Mariño R, Wong S, Kiyak A, Minichiello V, Chi I, Lo EC, Huancai L. Discussions on oral health care among elderly Chinese immigrants in Melbourne and Vancouver. Gerodontology. 2012 Jun;29(2):e822-32. Read more

Kaplan CP, Kim SE, Wong ST, Sawaya GF, Walsh JM, Pérez-Stable EJ. Willingness to use tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer among diverse women.Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 May;133(1):357-66. Read more

Lynam MJ, Scott L, Loock C, Wong ST. The RICHER social pediatrics model: fostering access and reducing inequities in children's health. Healthc Q. 2011;14 Spec No 3:41-6. Read more

Morgan S, Hanley G, Cunningham C, Quan H. Ethnic differences in the use of prescription drugs: a cross-sectional analysis of linked survey and administrative data. Open Med. 2011;5(2):e87-93. Read more

Galdas PM, Oliffe JL, Wong ST, Ratner PA, Johnson JL, Kelly MT. Canadian Punjabi Sikh men's experiences of lifestyle changes following myocardial infarction: cultural connections. Ethn Health. 2012;17(3):253-66. Read more

Hanley GE, Morgan SG, Reid RJ. Income-related inequity in initiation of evidence-based therapies among patients with acute myocardial infarction. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 Nov;26(11):1329-35. Read more

Wong ST, Browne AJ, Varcoe C, Lavoie J, Smye V, Godwin O, Littlejohn D, Tu D. Enhancing measurement of primary health care indicators using an equity lens: An ethnographic study. Int J Equity Health. 2011 Sep 5;10:38. Read more

Puyat JH, Hanley GE, Cunningham CM, Law MR, Wong ST, Sutherland JM, Morgan SG. Ethnic disparities in antipsychotic drug use in British Columbia: a cross-sectional retrospective study. Psychiatr Serv. 2011 Sep;62(9):1026-31. Read more

Cunningham CM, Hanley GE, Morgan SG. Income inequities in end-of-life health care spending in British Columbia, Canada: A cross-sectional analysis, 2004-2006. Int J Equity Health. 2011 Mar 16;10:12. Read more

Greyson DL, Becu AR, Morgan SG. Sex, drugs and gender roles: mapping the use of sex and gender based analysis in pharmaceutical policy research. Int J Equity Health. 2010 Nov 19;9:26. Read more

Lynam MJ, Loock C, Scott L, Wong ST, Munroe V, Palmer B. Social pediatrics: creating organizational processes and practices to foster health care access for children ‘at risk’. J Res Nurs. 2010 Jul;15(4):331-47. Read more

Leong VW, Morgan S, Wong ST, Hanley GE, Black C. Registration for public drug benefits across areas of differing ethnic composition in British Columbia, Canada. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010 Jun 17;10:171. Read more

Wong ST, Homma Y, Johnson JL, Saewyc E. The unmet health needs of East Asian high school students: are homestay students at risk? Can J Public Health. 2010 May-Jun;101(3):241-5. Read more

Wong ST, Nordstokke D, Gregorich S, Pérez-Stable EJ. Measurement of social support across women from four ethnic groups: evidence of factorial invariance. J Cross Cult Gerontol. 2010 Mar;25(1):45-58. Read more

Marshall EG, Wong ST, Haggerty JL, Levesque JF. Perceptions of unmet healthcare needs: what do Punjabi and Chinese-speaking immigrants think? A qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010 Feb 22;10:46. Read more

McGrail KM, van Doorslaer E, Ross NA, Sanmartin C. Income-related health inequalities in Canada and the United States: a decomposition analysis. Am J Public Health. 2009 Oct;99(10):1856-63. Read more

Wong ST, Regan S. Patient perspectives on primary health care in rural communities: effects of geography on access, continuity and efficiency. Rural Remote Health. 2009 Jan-Mar;9(1):1142. Read more

McGrail KM. Income-related inequities: Cross-sectional analyses of the use of medicare services in British Columbia in 1992 and 2002. Open Med. 2008;2(4):e91-8. Read more