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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"MEDICINE::Social medicine::Public health medicine research areas::Public health science"”.
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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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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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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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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 …