Search
Skip to Search Results- 501Children
- 157Canada--Nunavut (NWT)-- [Arviat [Eskimo Point]]
- 94Canada--Nunavut [NWT]-- [Arviat [Eskimo Point]]
- 94Play (Recreation)
- 74Women
- 54Epidemiology
- 339Halpern, Joel Martin
- 11GAPSSHRC
- 9Young, T. Kue
- 7Alberta Centre for Active Living
- 4Adams, Kim
- 4Edmonton Social Planning Council
- 339Joel Martin Halpern Image Archive
- 339Joel Martin Halpern Image Archive/Northern North America Collection
- 101Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 101Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 27Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of
- 25Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of/Speech Pathology and Audiology
-
Temperature Extremes Exposure and Children’s Health: Extreme Heat- and Cold-Related Impacts in Edmonton, Alberta
DownloadSpring 2024
In the current context of escalating climate change effects on public health, Canada's distinctive geographic position causes it to warm at double the global average rate. This phenomenon leads to potentially heightened health risks for its residents through direct and indirect mechanisms....
-
Helicobacter pylori infection in Arctic Indigenous communities: assessing the validity of infection status measures and estimating the effect of bacterial load on gastritis severity
DownloadSpring 2023
Helicobacter pylori (Hp) causes chronic inflammation of the stomach lining, also known as gastritis, in nearly all people with a persistent infection. Chronic inflammation of the stomach lining can lead to atrophy of stomach glands, a condition known as atrophic gastritis, believed to be the...
-
Learning to speak a minority language at school: Mandarin speech development of children in a Chinese-English bilingual program in Canada
DownloadFall 2023
A key factor of bilingual speech development is speech input. Different from an immigrant setting where children who are learning the majority language as a second language (L2) can receive rich and authentic input, the speech input is usually limited when learning a minority language. For L2...
-
Public Health Unit Funding Per Capita and Seasonal Influenza Vaccination among Youth and Adults in Ontario, Canada in 2013/14 and 2018/19
DownloadFall 2023
Background: Previous studies have indicated that public health funding was associated with beneficial health outcomes at the population-level. Some individuals may be less likely to vaccinate against influenza for a variety of reasons, including the presence of health inequities as a barrier. For...
-
Fall 2023
Children’s outdoor play (OP) has been consistently declining over recent decades. As such, OP research has increased; however, important gaps remain in the literature, especially for preschool-aged children (3-5 years). Specifically, there is a need to better understand the health benefits of OP,...
-
Spring 2023
Background: Unhealthy diet is a well-established risk factor for developing many physical health conditions in adolescents (e.g., obesity, type 2 diabetes). Evidence begins to emerge that unhealthy diet might also be implicated in the development of common mental disorders. While there is a...
-
Measuring What Matters: Exploring Measures of Métis Children's Social and Emotional Well-being Through Evidence Synthesis and Consensus Group Methods
DownloadFall 2023
The measurement tools selected for use in studies with Indigenous children have an undeniable impact on the validity and applicability of the findings presented, underscoring the need to take seriously calls for the development of self-determined measures that are rooted in the cultures,...
-
2022-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: Singing is in a vulnerable state as a result of the pandemic. Given the immense benefits that singing affords children on developmental physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual levels, a world without singing will also impact the general health and wellbeing...
-
Epidemiology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders among Indigenous Children: from Global to Métis-specific Contexts
DownloadFall 2022
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) have been found to be more prevalent among Indigenous children. However, it is unclear whether this extends to all Indigenous children from countries with similar colonial histories. In this thesis, we conducted a systematic review to assess the evidence on the...