| Name: | Crooks, Dr. Valorie |
| Degree: | PhD |
| Academic Rank: | Assistant Professor |
| Academic Department: | Geography |
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| Address: | Simon Fraser University RCB 6141 - 8888 University Drive Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 |
| Phone: | 778 782 3507 |
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| Email: | crooks@sfu.ca |
| Research Interests: | Experiences of Chronic Illness Family Caregiving Access to Primary Health Care |
| Research Projects: | Chronic illness support groups as relational space: exploring the roles of information sharing and dissemination Support groups are important sites of information sharing and transfer. The objective of this exploratory study is to understand how different places and people are connected relationally through the sharing of information within, and dissemination of information from, the support group space. Perceptions and experiences of immigrant women’s well-being, distress, and mental health: Implications for primary mental health services and providers (with Michaela Hynie) The overall goal of this study is to improve the delivery of mental health services for female newcomers from different cultural communities in underserviced Toronto neighbourhoods. We aim to facilitate the communication of information about culture-specific mental health concerns, barriers, characteristics, and needs between community members, health service providers, policy makers, and researchers using the principles of participatory action research. There’s more to longitudinal continuity of care than the ‘regular site vs. regular doctor’ debate (with Gina Agarwal) The voices of patients are missing from the continuity of care literature. A goal of this project is to address this gap by conducting focus groups with two specific patient groups regarding their perceptions and experiences of maintaining longitudinal continuity of care. An evaluation of Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit from a Family Caregiver’s Perspective (with Allison Williams) The goal of this study is to evaluate the CCB from the perspective of family caregivers. Our purpose is to make policy-relevant recommendations which are informed by the needs of Canadian family caregivers and input from other key stakeholders who shape program uptake. |
| Selected Publications: | Crooks, V.A. (in press) “Women’s experiences of developing musculoskeletal diseases: employment challenges and policy recommendations.” Disability & Rehabilitation. Manuscript d&r1226 accepted August/06, 31 pages. (publication pre-print online as of Feb/07) Crooks, V.A. (2007) “Exploring the altered daily geographies and lifeworlds of women living with fibromyalgia syndrome: a mixed-method approach.” Social Science & Medicine 64(3): 577-588. Crooks, V.A. (2006) “‘I go on the Internet; I always, you know, check to see what's new’: Chronically ill women’s use of online health information to shape and inform doctor-patient interactions in the space of care provision.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 5(1): 50-69. Crooks, V.A. and V. Chouinard (2006) “An Embodied Geography of Disablement: Chronically Ill Women’s Struggles for Enabling Places in Spaces of Health Care and Daily Life.” Health & Place 12(3): 345-352. Chouinard, V. and V.A. Crooks (2005) “‘Because they have all the power and I have none’: state restructuring of income and employment supports and disabled women’s lives in Ontario, Canada.” Disability & Society 20(1): 19-32. |
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