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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"MEDICINE::Social medicine::Public health medicine research areas"”.
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Navigating transitions out of post-secondary education: a mixed methods study of emerging adult mental health and access to support pre-and post-graduation
Mental health during emerging adulthood (18-29) is cause for concern, as this is the age period with highest rates of mental disorders and dropout from mental health services. While much research has examined transitions into university and campus-based service access, scarce evidence exists on how …
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Exploring risk-taking and health in immigrant adolescents to Canada: A unique focus on the “healthy immigrant effect”
The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) describes the phenomenon in which immigrants initially experience better health outcomes than the host population, followed by a gradual decline in health across time and generations. While the HIE has been widely documented among adults, less is known about how …
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The Role of System-Level Primary Care Characteristics and Immigration Status as Predictors of Non-Urgent Emergency Department Presentations
Non-urgent health conditions are best served in primary care settings (e.g. family practices and walk-in clinics). Despite this, patients commonly present to emergency departments (EDs) for non-urgent conditions, especially with upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). This leads to poor patient …
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Exploring Contemporary Risk-Taking in Canadian Adolescents
… behaviours available from a national population health survey of adolescents (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study (HBSC)) were tested psychometrically to develop novel scales to describe adolescent engagement in contemporary risk-taking. Through latent constructs, the scales were used …
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Perceptions of Ghanaian Women Regarding Breast Cancer Screening Behavior
… with an incidence rate of 15 to 35 per 100,000. Research into factors that influence engagement of Ghanaian women in breast cancer screening is limited and the existing literature has produced conflicting results. This research aimed to enhance understanding of Ghanaian women’s knowledge, beliefs …
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Analysis and robust simulation of mathematical models of HIV and Leishmaniasis co-infection
The purpose of this thesis is the theoretical and numerical study of epidemiological models of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) and human immunode ciency virus (HIV) coinfection. We study these models theoretically and design and analyze robust numerical methods to solve them. The rst sub-model …
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A model to strengthen Ward Based Outreach Teams (WBOTs) within the PHC Re-engineering programme in Vhembe district, Limpopo Province
… began to establish or strengthen their Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes due to the need for “a shift in attitude from a focus on ill health and hospitals, to a focus on communities and families controlling their own health” Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a model to …