John Eyles, McMaster University
Professor Emeritus School Of Geography & Earth Sciences Hamilton, Ontario eyles@mcmaster.ca
Bio/Research
John Eyles is University Distinguished Professor, and Fellow, Royal Society of Canada. He has held visiting positions in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Poland. He has published widely in the fields of social geography, social theory and methodology, and the geography of health care, including...
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Bio/Research
John Eyles is University Distinguished Professor, and Fellow, Royal Society of Canada. He has held visiting positions in Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Poland. He has published widely in the fields of social geography, social theory and methodology, and the geography of health care, including the authorship or editing of eight books. His research interests include the development and application of social indicators for quality of life issues; the comparative analysis of resource allocation strategies for health and welfare; examination of the relationships between work and home life in nursing as an integral part of manpower planning; the nature of environmental health policy; and health status, health-care needs assessment and inequalities in health. He has also made methodological contributions, especially with the use of qualitative methods to discover lay perceptions of health, illness and health care, which have a direct impact on health promotion and illness prevention policies. He has also carried out a quantitative examination of the relation between use of and need for health care in Canada. Recently, he is interested in evaluation; working with the PEI Health and Social Services System and the Ontario Aboriginal Wellness Strategy.
Research interests include the development and application of social indicators for quality of life issues; the comparative analysis of resource allocation strategies for health and welfare; the nature of environmental health policy; health status, health-care needs assessment and inequalities in health; and population health at the local level.
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Research interests include the development and application of social indicators for quality of life issues; the comparative analysis of resource allocation strategies for health and welfare; the nature of environmental health policy; health status, health-care needs assessment and inequalities in health; and population health at the local level.
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