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Creating and Capitalizing on Opportunities to Reduce Poverty: The Process and Power of Integrated Knowledge Translation
DownloadSpring 2016
This thesis describes the experiences of partners involved in integrated knowledge translation (iKT)—a poorly understood process wherein partners from diverse professional spheres (e.g. community, government, and academia) work together to ensure research generated is relevant for the context of...
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Living at-Risk for Hereditary Breast Cancer: The Experiences of at-Risk Unaffected Women Who Live in Families Where a BRCA Gene Mutation Could Not be Found
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Harmful mutations in the breast cancer 1 and 2 genes (BRCA1/2) and other breast cancer susceptibility genes are thought to account for less than 30% of familial breast cancer cases. Many affected women (those with a personal history of breast and/or ovarian cancer) who undergo BRCA1/2 genetic...
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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...