Margaret J. Penning

Ph.D. (Alberta, 1993)
Professor

Dr. Penning is interested in the sociology of health and health care as well as aging. In particular, she is interested in examining self, informal and formal care in relation to issues of chronic illness and disability in later life, the impact of structural inequalities on health and health care, and health care restructuring and reform in the Canadian context. Currently, she is the principal investigator of a program of research that focuses on the implications of health care reform for vulnerable subpopulations of older adults in British Columbia. She is also the Social Science Theme Leader and Victoria Site Director of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, a 20-year longitudinal study of 50,000 middle-aged and older Canadians recently-funded by CIHR. Finally, she also serves as Social Science Section Editor of the Canadian Journal on Aging and a Research Affiliate of the Centre on Aging, University of Victoria.

Areas of interest

Aging
Health and health care
Care giving and care receiving
Social networks and social support
Health care systems and health care reform

Selected publications

Books

Chappell, N.L. and Penning, M.J. 2008. Understanding Health, Health Care and Health Policy in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Penning, M. J. and Votova, K. 2008. "Health and health care: From hospital and residential care to home and community care." In S. Bolaria and HD Dickinson's (Eds.), Health, Illness and Health Care in Canada, 4th ed. Toronto: Harcourt.

Chappell, N.L. and Penning, M.J. 2007. "Health and Aging." In RJ Brym (Ed.), New Society: Sociology for the 21st Century (5th Edition). Toronto: Nelson.

Refereed Articles

Schimmele, C.M., Wu, Z. and Penning, M.J. 2009. "Gender and Remission of Mental Health." Canadian Journal of Public Health 100(5), 353-356.

Brackley ME and Penning MJ. "Home Care Utilization within the Year of Death: Trends, Predictors and Changes in Access Equity During a Period of Health Policy Reform in British Columbia, Canada." Health and Social Care in the Community, 17(3): 283-294.

Penning, M.J., Brackley, M.E., and Allan, D.E. 2006. "Home care and health reform: Changes in home care utilization in one Canadian province, 1990-2000." The Gerontologist, 46(6): 744-58.

Cloutier-Fisher, D., Penning, M.J., Zheng, C., and Druyts, E. 2006. "The Devil is in the Details: Trends in avoidable hospitalizations by Geography in British Columbia, 1990-2000." BMC Health Services Research, 6, 104.

Book Chapters

Penning, M.J., Brackley, M.E., Zheng, C., and Allan, D.E. 2009. "Geography, home care, and health reform in British Columbia, 1991-2000." In D. Cloutier-Fisher, L. Foster and D. Hultsch (Eds.), Health and Aging in British Columbia: Vulnerability and Resilience. Canadian Western Geographical Series, Victoria: Western Geographical Press.

Contact and other information

Office: Sedgewick A124/Cornett A306
Phone: 250-721-6573
Fax: 250-721-6217
Email: mpenning@uvic.ca
Homepage: http://web.uvic.ca/~mpenning