Department of Public Health Sciences
For more than 50 years, the Department of Public Health Sciences has provided graduate education and engaged in research aimed at improving health and health care for citizens. The focus of research and graduate programs is on health policy and management, health technology assessment, epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental health and global health. Collectively, faculty members represent many disciplines in the natural, biomedical, clinical, social, economic and behavioral sciences.
Items in this Collection
- 21Bubela, Tania
- 10Caulfield, Timothy
- 6Beesoon, S.
- 4Boon, Heather
- 2Birkholz, D.
- 2Centre for Healthy Communities
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2014-10-29
Caulfield, Timothy, Rachul, Christen, Zarzeczny, Amy, Bubela, Tania
The interest and controversy generated by stem cell research over the past decade has raised hopes for scientific breakthroughs and debates regarding the limits of ethical research. In particular, the debate surrounding the moral status of the embryo has received considerable attention in...
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2014-11-12
Bubela, Tania, DeBow, Suzanne, Caulfield, Timothy
The analysis of Parliamentary debates provides the opportunity to assess the political context of Canadian legislation, particularly in controversial areas such as stem cell research. Parliamentary debates surrounding the recent Assisted Human Reproduction Act,1 which lasted nearly a decade, were...
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Supplementary Data and Materials for Daniel Yu's Thesis
2024-07-01
All relevant supplementary data (figures, tables) and materials for Daniel Yu's thesis, completed July 2024.
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2006
Caulfield, Timothy, Bubela, Tania, Boon, Heather
Complementary and Alternative Medicines [CAM] are interventions that are not widely taught in medical schools and are not part of the usual arsenal of treatments and medications recommended and prescribed by physicians and available in hospitals. CAM is big business ($30 billion in the US) with...
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Value-Engineered Translation for Regenerative Medicine: Meeting the Needs of Health Systems
Download2014-10-29
McCabe, Christopher, Bubela, Tania
Despite high expectations of economic returns, large investments in regenerative medicine technology have yet to materialize, partly due to a lack of proven business and investment models, regulatory hurdles, and a greater focus on cost-effectiveness for reimbursement decisions by payors....
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2014
Waugh, E., Szafran, O., Torti, J., Triscott, J. A. C.
This presentation was given at the Nibble, Nosh & Network (2014) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
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When Pictures Waste a Thousand Words: Analysis of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic on Television News
Download2014-10-24
Jardine, Cindy, Bubela, Tania, Luth, Westerly
OBJECTIVES: Effective communication by public health agencies during a pandemic promotes the adoption of recommended health behaviours. However, more information is not always the solution. Rather, attention must be paid to how information is communicated. Our study examines the television news,...
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Wicked Issues for Canada at the Intersection of Intellectual Property and Public Health: Mechanisms for Policy Coherence
Download2014-10-29
Morin, Jean-Frédéric, Bubela, Tania, Gold, Richard E.
This article focuses on the intersection of health and one of the main drivers of the global economy, intellectual property (―IP‖). It is widely recognized that IP is an inter-sectoral issue with linkages to many other important public policy areas, such as health, agriculture, the environment,...