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
- 2Bridging programs
- 2Canada, Alberta, Edmonton
- 2Internationally educated nurses
- 12012/06/19
- 12013/05/03
- 1Active living
- 1Clark, Alexander; Higginbottom, Gina
- 1Cruz, Edward V.
- 1Cruz, Edward Venzon
- 1Dassanayake, J.
- 1Higginbottom, G.
- 1Higginbottom, Gina M. A.
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A Proposal to Investigate the Transitioning Experiences of Internationally-Educated Nurses who Attended Academic Bridging Programs in Two Canadian Provinces
Download2012
The proposed study aims to investigate how academic bridging programs are helping internationally-educated nurses (IENs) gain registration and transition within Canada’s health care system. The research question for this proposed study is: How do bridging programs affect the ability of IENs to...
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Optimizing Health Literacy and Community Engagement in Relation to Active Living with Edmonton’s Newcomer Young People and their Families
Download2012
Dassanayake, J., Yohani, S., Mogale, R.S., Higginbottom, G., Richter, S., Vallianatos, H.
Canada is a multicultural country where immigration plays an important role in population growth and the country’s economy. Despite this, some newcomers such as those who hold refugee status, experience greater ill-health than the general population. Moreover, many immigrants and refugees (both...
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Workplace Transitioning Experiences of IENs who Attended Academic Bridging Programs in Canada: A Thesis Proposal
Download2013-04-16
The proposed study will explore how academic bridging programs facilitated the internationally-educated nurses’ (IENs) ability to transition to Canada’s health care system. The proposed study will use a focused ethnographic methodology. Twenty five participants will be invited to participate...