Search
Skip to Search Results- 4Strain, Laurel A.
- 4Wanless, Deanna
- 3Morgan, Debra
- 2Cammer, Allison
- 2Crossley, Margaret
- 2Dal Bello-Haas, Vanina
- 32Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 32Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 8Nursing, Faculty of
- 5Nursing, Faculty of/Chronicity
- 4ACCES Research Group
- 4ACCES Research Group/Research Reports (ACCES)
-
Identifying Factors that Influence the Sustainability of a Gravity-Fed Water System in Rural Haiti
DownloadSpring 2020
Background: The sustainability of water supply systems in rural, low resource settings is imperative to address as approximately 25% of water systems fail within four years of installation. Due to a long history of political instability, government corruption, countless natural disasters, and...
-
2013-01-01
Walls-Ingram, Sheena, O'Connell, Megan E., Cammer, Allison, Dal Bello-Haas, Vanina, Stewart, Norma, Crossley, Margaret, Innes, Anthea, Forbes, Dorothy, Morgan, Debra, Kirk, Andrew
Abstract Although only 20-50% of individuals with dementia are diagnosed, early diagnosis enables patients and families to access interventions and services, and plan for the future. The current study explored the experiences of rural family caregivers in the period leading up to a diagnostic...
-
Fall 2022
Background and Rationale: Obstetric ultrasounds have become a routine practice in pregnancy management globally. Evidence, however, suggests that while obstetric scans in high-income countries are associated with positive experiences to mothers, the technology may not be having similar positive...
-
2023-09-12
NFRF-I awarded 2024: This project focuses on enhancing energy transition planning, recognizing that such plans must: integrate mitigation and adaptation; embrace a justice framework; and be socio culturally embedded within local geographies. This demands direct engagement with the diverse peoples...
-
Learning in Social Action in Contexts of Mining Dispossession: A Critical Case Study of Roșia Montană, Romania
DownloadSpring 2021
Witiw, Taylor Kermit Christopher
Transnational corporations promise win-win development, but extractive projects often deliver dispossession, displacement, impoverishment, environmental degradation, and disrupt social relations in rural localities. These conditions can in turn engender contestation and resistance to...
-
Negotiating Rural Land Tenure: An exploration of influential factors in Maasai household decisions to hold land as individual private property in Ewaso Kedong, Kenya
DownloadFall 2014
Rural land users in arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya find themselves in a period of history with unprecedented levels of change to the way land is held and accessed. In many pastoralists’ settings, including Kajiado County, rangelands are undergoing processes of fragmentation and enclosure...
-
Spring 2017
Neurocysticercosis, the major global cause of acquired epilepsy, is a parasitic disease caused by Taenia solium larvae. Patients may have seizures whether larvae in brain are alive or degenerated (calcified). We assessed whether parasitic lesions produce changes in structural brain scans that are...
-
Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Treatment of Acute and Chronic Pain in Rural and Urban British Columbia
DownloadSpring 2022
Throughout Canada there has been an increase in both fatal and non-fatal opioid related overdoses, with British Columbia having some of the highest rates. In response to this increase, the Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia declared a public health emergency to mobilize resources to...
-
Outcomes of maternity care services in Alberta, 1999 and 2000: A population-based analysis.
Download2005
Bunnah, T., Ellehoj, E., Iglesias, S., Yee, J., Bott, N., Jennissen, B., Schopflocher, D.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the maternal and perinatal outcomes of Alberta's regionalized system of care. In particular, to compare the outcomes of communities with limited or no local intrapartum care with those of regional and tertiary care centres. METHODS: We conducted a population-based...
-
Parental influences on executive functions in early childhood: Differential effects of harsh and sensitive parenting
DownloadFall 2016
The aim of this study was to clarify the nature of the relations between specific dimensions of parenting (sensitivity and harshness) and cool and hot components of executive functions (EFs) in preschool children. As such, this study examined the additive and interactive effects of parental...