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Women's and care providers' perspectives of quality prenatal care: a qualitative descriptive study
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Kingston, D., Tough, S., Janssen, P.A., Brooks, S., Sword, W., Young, D., Heaman, M.I., Hutton, E., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Helewa, M.E.
Background: Much attention has been given to the adequacy of prenatal care use in promoting healthy outcomes for women and their infants. Adequacy of use takes into account the timing of initiation of prenatal care and the number of visits. However, there is emerging evidence that the quality of...
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Fall 2012
Motivated by the apparent ineffectiveness of feminist critiques to ameliorate my negative experiences of my body, this thesis investigates Michel Foucault’s understanding of experience and critique in an effort to explain this inefficacy. Caught between intuitions that my “stubborn” experiences...
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Spring 2011
Camargo Plazas, Maria del Pilar
Chronic disease is the largest cause of death in the world. Yet little is known about how globalization forces affect the body and the experience of someone who is chronically ill. The need for specialized knowledge of subjective data is significant as it will assist us to improve our...
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Transitioning from Separate to Community Physical Activity Contexts for Youth with Impairments: The Parental Experience
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Moving from separate to inclusive community physical activity for youth with impairments can be a difficult transition for all involved. While research on the barriers for youth undergoing these transitions exists, little attention has been focused on the role and experiences of parents. The...
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Fall 2010
The use of universal or standard precautions by health care workers (HCWs) is essential to avoid exposure to blood and other body secretions that may transmit infectious diseases. Health care workers in Uganda often find it difficult to translate the principles of universal precautions into...
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Spring 2018
In the midst of the rapidly changing landscapes of schools, philosophical and ideological debates around education reform and the importance of social and emotional learning have become commonplace. To recognize the mental health needs of youth, teachers are asked to create safe and nurturing...
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Stories of Faculty who Served as Academic Administrators: Career-Life Experiences and Academic Identities of five Associate Deans
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Deans, chairs, associate deans, and associate chairs are, as academic administrators, at the nexus of the university organization. Much has been written on educational leadership theory and practice and on organizational theory, management, and behaviour. I have come to wonder, though, what the...
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Spring 2010
Theorists who endeavor to take sociality seriously have made substantial strides, but the phenomenological immediacy of experience has not been well explored or sufficiently addressed. This dissertation proposes an approach to cultural psychology that accounts for such experience. It addresses...
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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: A Multi-dimensional Exploration into Children’s Experiences with Nature
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