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2020-06-20
Mark Lewis, William Fagan, Marie Auger-Methe, Jacqueline Frair, John Fryxell, Claudius Gros, Eliezer Gurarie, Susan Healy, Jerod Merkle
Integrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine learning, we develop an overview of the ecology of learning and animal movement. Learning-based movement is clearly relevant to ecological problems, but the subject is rooted firmly in psychology, including a...
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Fall 2018
Background: Globally caesarean section (C-section) rates are exceeding recommended ranges, placing women at higher risk for complications. Evidence suggests migrant women have higher C-section rates compared to Canadian-born women. Communication barriers including the lack of ability to...
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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Neighbourhood Income Inequality and Maternal Mental Health in Calgary, Alberta
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Background – Emerging evidence has identified income inequality as a potential risk factor for adverse mental health outcomes. Previous research into the relationship between income inequality and mental health has been largely cross-sectional, with mixed results. Very few of these studies have...
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Fall 2021
Birth decisions have a significant impact on the physical health of a woman and her child as well as to a woman’s mental and emotional health. Healthy low-risk women who birth with a physician in a hospital have statistically significantly higher odds of having interventions like augmentation and...
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A multi-methods exploration of shared decision-making, lived experience, and opioid use disorder among emerging adults with anxiety and depression
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Background Anxiety/depression are common in emerging adults and may lead to poor coping strategies such as substance use. Shared decision-making (SDM) occurs when clinicians and patients make health decisions together informed by the best available evidence inclusive of the patient’s...
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Spring 2018
Ramos Salas, Ruth Marjorie Ximena
Obesity is a highly stigmatized condition due to pervasive personal, professional, institutional and cultural weight bias. Public health policies have been criticized for promoting a simplistic narrative that may contribute to weight bias. Individuals with obesity experience internal and external...
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Development and Implementation of a Community Based qPCR Monitoring Program for Biological Hazards of Recreational Water
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Recreational water is an economic and social asset to the public. Its' importance is underscored by the need to protect it, and ensure it is safe to use. There are numerous waterborne pathogens that cause illness each year, including bacteria, human infectious viruses, and parasites, and many of...
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Integrating Approaches to Geographic Variation in Methodologies for Public Health Surveillance
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Epidemiology is increasingly recognizing the complexity of the underlying mechanisms determining health states. Public health surveillance needs to incorporate this knowledge into their regular reporting and analysis cycles. Aggregate data related to a multitude of health related states and risk...
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Moving Beyond Ideology: Contemporary Recreation and the Neoliberal Discourses of New Public Health
Moving Beyond Ideology: Contemporary Recreation and the Neoliberal Discourses of New Public Health
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Lisa N. Tinka*,, Danielle Peersb,, Candace I. J. Nykiforuka,, Bethan C. Kingsleyc
The suggestion that recreation needs to reaffirm historic values has become a common narrative throughout Canada’s contemporary recreation literature. A central assumption underlying these calls is that re-establishing the field’s social liberal beliefs will highlight the negative effects of...