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Better to teach than to deter if you cannot do both: Investigating the effects of education and fines on future traffic offences and collisions
DownloadSpring 2021
No evaluations have been conducted to determine whether Option 4, an Albertan driver education workshop, is effective in reducing future traffic violations and collisions when compared to fines. This thesis followed cohorts of Albertan traffic offenders (N = 1,707), one group who received a...
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Building relationships and shared understanding: Developing a community-based participatory action research project with an Inuit community
DownloadSpring 2023
Introduction: Evidence-based, community-led health promotion initiatives can offer a culturally-grounded option to address the effects of colonization in many Indigenous communities. Community-based research offers valuable insight into community needs and priorities when planning, delivering,...
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Caesarean Sections in a National Referral Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Trends, Predictors and Outcomes
DownloadFall 2016
Background Globally, maternal mortality remains a significant public health problem. In order to reduce maternal mortality, emergency obstetric care (EmOC) must be available and accessible to all women. EmOC refers to the services used for the treatment of complications that arise during...
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Can Existing Cohort Studies with Self-Reported Diagnosis be used in the Study of Rare Cancer? Evaluating the Feasibility of Rare Cancer Research in Emerging Cohorts in Canada
DownloadFall 2019
Rare cancers affect few people individually, but collectively account for approximately 22% of new cancer cases in Canada. However, prevention and population-level research on rare cancers have been limited as low case numbers make them difficult to study. The emergence of large, collaborative...
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Cannabis use among Canadian university students: Norm perceptions and interest in online supports
DownloadFall 2019
Cannabis is one of the most widely used and misused substances, yet research on plausible intervention targets and strategies to reduce cannabis use is underdeveloped. This thesis addressed these issues in two secondary analyses of population survey data in the 2018 Campus Experiences with...
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Care Providers' Perceptions in Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in the After-School Setting
DownloadFall 2018
Comprehensive school health (CSH) is an evidence-based and internationally recognized framework which has been effective in school-based health promotion interventions. Given its effectiveness in the school setting, there is a need to expand this approach into other community settings, such as...
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Challenges for Resource Allocation, Decision Making and Consideration of Social Values for Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatitis C in Canadian Populations
DownloadFall 2018
Introduction: Health care system decision makers face challenges in allocating resources for screening, diagnosis and therapies for hepatitis C, caused by the highly infectious and blood borne hepatitis C virus (HCV) (WHO, 2014). Approximately 240,000 individuals are infected with HCV in Canada...
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Characterisation of antibody cross-reactivity between Plasmodium vivax DBL proteins and Plasmodium falciparum VAR2CSA in sera from Colombian and Brazilian populations
DownloadFall 2019
Background: Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) poses a significant risk to the mother and fetus, causing approximately 10,000 maternal deaths and 200,000 infant deaths each year. A vast majority of these deaths are attributed to the species Plasmodium falciparum. MiP can cause severe negative birth...
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Fall 2018
Objectives - To describe the prevalence, associated characteristics, and course of enthesitis in a inception cohort of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and to estimate the impact of enthesitis on patient reported outcomes (PROs) in these children, irrespective of their JIA...