Health Equity
The Health Equity Area of Excellence (AoE) provides leadership in the creation of a community of scholars within the Faculty of Nursing that foster discourse and inquiry to examine issues related to social determinants of health as conditions for social advantage/ disadvantage and systematic disparities in health.
Items in this Collection
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Perception of the health of children living and working on the streets of Sunnyside - Part 1: Literature review and methodogly
Download2003
The phenomenon of street children is generating increasing concern in South Africa. The number of street children has grown because of the current economic hardship in South Africa, increasing levels of violence and widespread family and community disruption. In terms of health, it is clear that...
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2005
Galera, S.A., Roldan, M.C., O'Brien, B.
The number of women involved with drugs is increasing, and the same is true for violence against them. Many of these women are mothers. This study aimed to investigate how mothers of children between one month and six years old who are living in a context of drugs and violence and are receiving...
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2014
In this paper we use Alvesson and Sandberg’s strategy of problematisation to analyse the assumptions embedded in the development and use of the concept of ‘care-giver burden’.We do this in order to develop an explanation as to why decades of research into the experience of providing home-based...
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Public views of acceptability of perinatal mental health screening and treatment preference: A population based survey.
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Kingston, D., Austin, M., Lasiuk, G., Tough, S., Hegadoren, K., McDonald, S.
Background At a prevalence rate of 13-25%, mental health problems are among the most common morbidities of the prenatal and postnatal periods. They have been associated with increased risk of preterm birth and low birthweight, child developmental delay, and poor child mental health. However, very...
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2014
Bradford, A., Tough, S., Young, D.C., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Kingston, D. A., Sword, W.A., Janssen, P. A., Heaman, M. I., Helewa, M. E., Hutton, E. K.
Background Utilization indices exist to measure quantity of prenatal care, but currently there is no published instrument to assess quality of prenatal care. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a new instrument, the Quality of Prenatal Care Questionnaire (QPCQ). Methods Data for...
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Research Planning for Global Poverty and Homelessness Policies and Services: A Case Study of a Joint Canadian-South Africa Initiative
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Kovacs Burns, K., Botha, A.D.H., Richter, S.
Global poverty, homelessness and health-related issues require both international and country-specific research to explore best collaborative approaches, determine relevant global health services and policy research questions, and explore how collaborative partnerships and research can be applied...
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Shifting from Reading to Questioning: Some Thoughts Around Ethics, Research, and Aboriginal Peoples
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During the summer of 2002, we worked on a project exploring issues surrounding ethics and research with Aboriginal people. As we reviewed a number of articles published in this area, our library and Internet searches were accompanied by multiple conversations. Within these conversations we often...