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Fall 2019
Combating the current and incoming climate catastrophe demands a reckoning with the forces that continue to prevent meaningful changes to the fossil fuel paradigm. Actors benefitting from the exploitation of fossil fuels have been consistent in their strategic efforts to actively affect policy...
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Fall 2018
This thesis studies integrative augmentation with customer satisfaction (CS) standards in a service and a manufacturing organization. Case study organization 1 (CSO 1) is an engineering course operated in a Western Canadian university. In this course, surveys were undertaken that addressed...
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Community pharmacists’ views and practices regarding natural health products sold in community pharmacies
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Background Reports of regulatory and evidentiary gaps have raised concerns about the marketing and use of natural health products (NHPs). The majority of NHPs offered for sale are purchased at a community pharmacy and pharmacists are “front-line” health professionals involved in the marketing and...
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2016-04-14
Hodgetts, Bill, Bernier, Myriam, Hodgetts, Sandy
This exploration study investigates whether or not barriers to audiology service access exist in the province of Alberta by means of 3 surveys. Surveys were divided in barrier-themes such as: distance to the audiologist, funding, wait lists/referrals. These surveys were available in audiology...
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Fall 2016
The Alaska Highway through Southwestern Yukon is located in the discontinuous permafrost zone with many areas of the highway corridor associated with degrading permafrost. Given the strategic value of the corridor, it is critical to have a clear understanding of permafrost characteristics and...
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Utilization of national clinical practice guidelines: A survey of Canadian pediatric physicians
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Robinson Joan, Nicholson Katharine, Vandermeer Ben, Kumar Manoj, Nasir Fareeha
Background: It is not clear how physicians currently use clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Objectives: The objective was to describe how Canadian pediatric residents and pediatricians use CPGs and to identify barriers to CPG use. Methods: Pediatric emergency physicians and general...
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Fall 2015
Appreciating the complex nature of adolescent high-risk behaviour can have far reaching implications for the development of effective educational programming. The purpose of this study was to examine the general knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18, from...
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Assessing health care in Canada’s North: what can we learn from national and regional surveys?
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Young, T. Kue, Ng, Carmina, Chatwood, Susan
"Background: Health surveys are a rich source of information on a variety of health issues, including health care. Objectives: This article compares various national and regional surveys in terms of their geographical coverage with respect to the Canadian North, especially their Aboriginal...
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2014-03-26
Dropping out of high school negatively affects individuals and society. In today’s technological world, a high school diploma is often seen as the minimum standard of education an individual is expected to achieve. Thus, governments and educators continue to struggle with developing new...
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A Systematic Review of Instruments to Assess Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation in Health Care
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Attieh, Randa, Ouimet, Mathieu, Estabrooks, Carole A., Légaré, France, Gagnon, Marie-Pierre, Grimshaw, Jeremy, Ghandour, El Kebir
Background: The translation of research into practices has been incomplete. Organizational readiness for change (ORC) is a potential facilitator of effective knowledge translation (KT). However we know little about the best way to assess ORC. Therefore, we sought to systematically review ORC...