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Culture and the healthy immigrant effect: a multiethnic study of Canadian immigrants' self-perceived health
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I present a qualitative study investigating the self-perceived health of recently arrived Canadian immigrants. The study develops health promotion’s understanding of culture as a social determinant of health, and conceptually locates it within a broader context of psychosocial factors. The study...
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Dealing with a latent danger: parents communicating with their school-age preadolescent children about smoking - a grounded theory study
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Smoking in youth continues to be an important public health issue. Because adolescence is the key period for smoking initiation, prevention efforts need to take place before the adolescent years. Little is known about parental smoking prevention interventions. The purpose of this study,...
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Spring 2013
Immigrant women have many emotional, psychological, and/or cultural stressors that may influence their health. For some women, these stressors may only be present during the acculturation process, but for others they may continue throughout the remainder of their lives. Focused ethnography, as...
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Exploring the leisure experiences and perceptions of acculturation of newcomer Chinese youth
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This research explored the nature of the relationship between leisure experiences and perceptions of acculturation of newcomer Chinese youth. Employing interpretive description methodology, semi-structured interviews and a focus group elicited subjective description of leisure and acculturation...
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Identifying Prognostic Factors for Adverse Outcomes in Adults with Bacteremic Pneumococcal Pneumonia
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Bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia (BPP) is a severe form of invasive pneumonia that continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, yet large-scale studies identifying prognostic factors for adverse outcomes in patients with BPP is significantly lacking. Furthermore,...
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Integrating Research on Acculturation into Organizational Scholarship: Two Empirical Studies and a Construct Development Effort
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The overarching objective of this dissertation is to offer a more comprehensive and profound understanding of how the concept of acculturation can be applied within scholarship on organizations. Through processes of acculturation, individuals experience affective, behavioural, and cognitive...