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"The Ultimate Goal is the Best Health Possible": Exploring Collaborations Between the Food Safety and Food Security Sectors in British Columbia, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-23)Introduction: In Canada, foodborne disease and food insecurity are both important health issues that share many common drivers. However, the public health sectors that aim to address each of these issues typically work ... -
THE UNCERTAINTY THAT SHAPES THE OPERATIONS OF HEALTH-FOCUSED NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN VIETNAM
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)Objective: This research project explores how uncertainty shapes NGOs operating in the health sector in relation to other institutions, and how NGOs strategize to maintain their image and survive under uncertain conditions, ... -
Understanding care transitions from the perspectives of persons with dementia and their caregivers: A grounded theory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)Introduction: The proportion of the Canadian population living with dementia is rising. Since persons with dementia are intensive health care service users, they have many contact points with various health care providers ... -
Understanding how mHealth tools can support care coordination between older adults and healthcare providers: a scoping study
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-17)Background & Objectives: There is growing interest in the use of health information technologies to support care planning and communication between patients and care providers. This study aimed to: i) review the literature ... -
Understanding organizational context and heart failure management in long term care homes in Ontario, Canada
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2012-10-01)This study examined the prevalence of Control Intervention (CI) use in adult in-patient psychiatric units/hospitals in Ontario and developed a profile of those patients who had CI use during their admission between April ... -
Understanding the differential impact of vegetation measures on the association between vegetation and mental health disorders
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-26)Background: Considerable debate exists as to whether vegetation can help achieve better mental health outcomes. Although few studies have attempted to evaluate the health effects of vegetation, a spatial study, which has ... -
Understanding the Dynamics of Informal, Community-Based Care Among LGBTQ2+ Young Adults in Southwestern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)Background: Historically, North American health care has been developed through predominantly a hetero- and cis-normative, and white, lens which has led to the social exclusion of LGBTQ2+ individuals through institutional ... -
Understanding the Experiences of Retirement Transitions Amongst Older Workers in Physically Demanding Occupations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-21)Background and Objectives Approximately 60% to 70% of Ontario workers have no pension – nonunionized workers are most affected, leaving many older workers in vulnerable positions. This vulnerability is exacerbated for ... -
Understanding youth tobacco and nicotine product use: Exploring susceptibility to, use of, and trajectories for six tobacco and nicotine products
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)One of the greatest accomplishments of public health has been the significant reductions in harms due to smoking. Although tobacco cigarettes have typically been the product with the highest prevalence of use, there remains ... -
Understanding Youth Trajectories of Alcohol Use: Evaluating the Impact of a Policy of Authorizing Alcohol Sales in Some Grocery Stores in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-29)The latest change in the policy of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), enacted in December 2015, authorizes the sale of alcohol in 450 grocery stores that previously had not sold alcohol. This policy change increased ... -
The Use of Artificially Intelligent Symptom checkers by University Students – An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)Rising healthcare costs, wait times, unnecessary care, and lack of access to a primary care provider, are pressing issues encountered by various health systems and in part, are a result of misinformed patient demand. The ... -
Use of Smart Technology Tools for Supporting Public Health Surveillance: From Development of a Mobile Health Platform to Application in Stress Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-10)BACKGROUND Traditional public health data collection methods are typically based on self-reported data and may be subject to limitations such as biases, delays between collection and reporting, costs, and logistics. These ... -
Use of the interRAI CHESS Scale to Predict Mortality among Persons with Neurological Conditions in Three Care Settings
(Public LIbrary of Science, 2014-06-10)Background: Persons with certain neurological conditions have higher mortality rates than the population without neurological conditions, but the risk factors for increased mortality within diagnostic groups are less well ... -
Using Decision Trees to Examine the Influence of the School Environment on Youth Mental Health
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Youth mental health is a current public health priority in Canada, with nearly one in four young people living with a mental illness. The contextual school environment can be particularly influential given the considerable ... -
Using Long Term Risk Factors from the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS) dataset to predict suicide admission and suicide severity among acute psychiatric inpatients in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-04)The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between multidimensional long term suicide risk factors (LTRF) and short-term suicide related outcomes known as early warning signs (EWS) among a cross-section ... -
Using Qualitative Methodologies to Explore the Lived Experience of Chronic Pain and Chronic Pain in the Workplace
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-23)Introduction: Chronic pain is a significant and challenging issue, impacting an increasingly large number of Canadians. The impacts from chronic pain are individually felt on a biological, psychological and sociological ... -
Utilizing Construction Safety Leading and Lagging Indicators to Measure Project Safety Performance: a case study
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-10)Background Construction accounts for 22% of all workplace fatalities in Ontario (Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada, 2015), although construction only accounts for 7% of Ontario’s workforce (Statistics ... -
Vaccinating pregnant women: Exploring midwive’s perspectives regarding vaccination in pregnancy in the Waterloo-Wellington Region.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-25)Background: Within the Canadian context midwives play a crucial role in providing prenatal care for pregnant women and this encompasses vaccine recommendations. Although administration of vaccines is outside midwives’ scope ... -
Validating a Global Measure of Severity in Children with Chronic Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-25)Background: Approximately 20% of children live with a chronic physical condition, such as asthma, epilepsy, or diabetes. These conditions place considerable burden on children, their families, clinicians, and the health ... -
Validity and Reliability of a Short Diet Questionnaire to Estimate Dietary Intake in Older Adults in a Subsample of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
(MDPI, 2018-10-17)This study assessed test-retest reliability and relative validity of the Short Diet Questionnaire (SDQ) and usability of an online 24 h recall among 232 participants (62 years ± 9.1; 49.6% female) from the Canadian ...