Public health perspectives on postwar mental health: Gender, housing and family in Kitimat, British Columbia, 1950s

摘要

BACKGROUND: The aftermath of World War II brought rapid change to the ways in which Canadian communities were designed and how their populations experienced their lives. The purpose of this study is to explore how mental health was understood and experienced in the context of the postwar period using the well-documented construction (in 1953) of the comprehensively planned, resource-based community of Kitimat, British Columbia as a case example.