Social and health inequalities and lifestyle behaviours in the post‑pandemic recovery period

Status Ongoing
Start date 2025
Location Quebec
Researcher Vasiliadis, Helen-Maria
Associated institution Université de Sherbrooke
Summary

The COVID‑19 pandemic has had a major impact on daily life in Canada, including physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and eating habits. These changes did not affect everyone equally and have contributed to widening social and health inequalities, particularly among people in more vulnerable socioeconomic situations.
This project will use data from the CARTaGENE platform, collected before, during, and after the pandemic, to examine how lifestyle behaviours have evolved among adults in Quebec. The study will focus on changes in physical activity, sedentary time, and fruit and vegetable consumption during the post‑pandemic recovery period, and will assess whether these changes differ according to socioeconomic status.
The findings will help identify factors associated with more and less favourable lifestyle profiles and inform public health policies aimed at reducing health inequalities.

Themes
  • Chronic diseases
  • Environment and lifestyle
  • Public health and epidemiology
Data types
  • Linked data
  • Physical and cognitive measures
  • Questionnaire data