Mindy McHardy’s scientific contributions

... These determinants include: health behaviors (e.g., misuse of alcohol, excessive smoking); physical environments (e.g., housing shortages and poor quality of existing homes); employment and income (e.g., scarce economic opportunities and community resources); education (e.g., poor literacy); and food insecurity (e.g., compromised diets when food is no longer available or of poor nutritional quality). While each of these determinants are important, education, employment, income, and housing have been highlighted often within the literature because of their inclusion in the Community Well-Being (CWB) Index of Canada (8,9). The CWB is described in further detail below following a review of these key social determinants. ...

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A national-level examination of First Nations peoples’ mental health data: Predicting mental well-being from social determinants of health using the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey

... Given that all indicators are expressed as proportions in a 0-100 range, the CWB does not require any additional normalization procedures. Each component in the CWB is given equal weights (O'Sullivan & McHardy, 2004) and although the aggregation process is not described in the documents, it is assumed that it uses a linear aggregation process, the most common method in CIs. ...

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Targeting Policies to Place: A Jurisdictional Analysis Of Composite Indicators for Rural Development