Search
Skip to Search Results- 2Al Sayah, Fatima
- 1Alberta Centre for Active Living
- 1Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research
- 1Berry, R
- 1Brown, Cary A
- 1Campbell, Sandy
- 6Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 6Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 1Alberta Centre for Active Living
- 1Alberta Centre for Active Living/WellSpring
- 1Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of
- 1Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of/Occupational Therapy
- 2Johnson, Jeff A. (School of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta)
- 2Williams, Beverly (Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta)
- 1Dr. Dorothy Forbes, Faculty of Nursing
- 1Dr. Joanne Olson
- 1Julien, Heidi (School of Library and Information Studies)
- 1Majumdar, Sumit R. (Department of Medicine, University of Alberta)
-
Building Health Capability and Health Literacy: Exploring Social Support Experiences of Chinese International Students in a Canadian Context
DownloadSpring 2015
The number of international students studying in Canada has been increasing rapidly in recent years. However at the time of writing, while literature was found on international students’ health related experiences in the US and other countries as well, it appeared that very few studies on this...
-
Fall 2013
There is a general agreement that a relationship exists between health literacy (HL) and health outcomes. Nonetheless, there are critical gaps in the measurement of HL and in the evidence on the impact of inadequate HL on health outcomes, especially in the diabetes population. These gaps need to...
-
Fall 2013
There is a general agreement that a relationship exists between health literacy (HL) and health outcomes. Nonetheless, there are critical gaps in the measurement of HL and in the evidence on the impact of inadequate HL on health outcomes, especially in the diabetes population. These gaps need to...
-
Spring 2017
Background: Health literacy is a robust determinant of an individual’s health status which in turn influences population health and the healthcare system. Based on Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) limited health literacy (LHL) is a source of health disparity if healthcare providers are not able to...
-
Spring 2011
While evidence-based practice and knowledge translation (or transfer) has garnered much attention, research has not focused on health information as provisional and emergent, and on knowledge translation (KT) as a process of social construction. The challenge of evolving information is magnified...
-
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...
-
Fall 2014
An understanding of the ways that rural community dwelling individuals with dementia (IWDs) are, and prefer to be, involved in their decision-making could help caregivers maximize IWDs’ contribution to their decisions and could thus improve their care. This qualitative secondary analysis used an...