A5007096248- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Social Media and Politics
- Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Language and cultural evolution
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Global Health and Surgery
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- CAR-T cell therapy research
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Cognitive and psychological constructs research
University of Toronto
2020-2024
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
2020-2024
Public Health Ontario
2023
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
2022
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
2022
Dalhousie University
2022
Nova Scotia Health Authority
2022
Royal Roads University
2022
University of Manitoba
2022
Institute of Health Services and Policy Research
2020
Victoria Haldane and colleagues argue that to make covid-19 the last pandemic, public health responses outbreaks must be strengthened, starting with their most basic functions
Primary health care is undergoing significant organizational change, including the development of interdisciplinary teams. Understanding how teams function effectively in primary will assist training programs teaching effective interprofessional practices. This study aimed to explore views members regarding what constitutes a team, team effectiveness and factors that affect care. Focus group consultations from six Department Family Medicine at Queen's University were recorded transcribed...
<b>Victoria Haldane and colleagues</b> delve into the characteristics of national responses to covid-19. They suggest actionable steps at a level that can guide states achieve independent panel's recommendations for making this last pandemic
Lack of patient access to family physicians in Canada is a concern. The role recent physician graduates this problem supply primary care services has not been established. We sought establish whether career stage or graduation cohort were related practice volume and continuity over time.We conducted retrospective study from 1997/98 2017/18. collected administrative health claims data British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario Nova Scotia. included all who registered with their respective provincial...
We describe changes in the comprehensiveness of services delivered by family physicians 4 Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia) during periods 1999-2000 and 2017-2018 explore if differ years practice. measured using province-wide billing data across 7 settings (home, long-term care, emergency department, hospital, obstetrics, surgical assistance, anesthesiology) service areas (pre/postnatal Papanicolaou [Pap] testing, mental health, substance use, cancer minor...
The covid-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) in preparedness response efforts to health threats.It illustrated realities a world that is digitally interconnected, which misinformation can spread more easily than ever before contribute erosion trust.Given these realities, this analysis aims highlight need invest resilience as core component for threats. Covid-19 context: first digital pandemicCommunication during disease outbreaks,...
Anne-Sophie Jung and colleagues argue that research policy making must embrace complexity to build sustainable long term approaches pandemic preparedness
The foundation of client-centred practice is the therapist's capacity to view world through client's eyes and develop an understanding lived experience disability.This paper describes evaluation educational initiative promoting student empathy disability.Pairs first-year occupational therapy students visited adults with disabilities who shared their knowledge living a disability. Students reflected on visits in journals, which were later analyzed using pattern matching.Students appeared...
Background: Complaints about lack of access to family physicians (FPs) has led concerns the role recent physician graduates have had in changes supply primary care services Canada. This study investigates impact career stage, time period, and graduation cohort on practice volume continuity over two decades. Methods: Retrospective-cohort from 1997/98 2017/18. Administrative health claims data were collected British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario Nova Scotia. The included all registered with...
<h3>Objective</h3> To describe changes in the comprehensiveness of services delivered by family physicians across service settings and areas 4 Canadian provinces, to identify which have changed most, compare magnitude physician characteristics. <h3>Design</h3> Descriptive analysis province-wide, population-based billing data linked population registries. <h3>Setting</h3> British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia. <h3>Participants</h3> Family registered practise 1999-2000 2017-2018...
Background/aims Children with bilateral cataracts may undergo immediate sequential cataract surgery (ISBCS), which involves on both eyes during the same general anaesthesia, or delayed (DSBCS), operating each eye separate days and requires a second anaesthesia. ISBCS is viewed caution because of risk endophthalmitis. Proponents emphasise that incidence serious complications low outweighed by benefits such as avoidance multiple faster visual rehabilitation potential for decreased costs....
Social media is an important way for governments to communicate with the public. This particularly true in times of crisis, such as COVID-19 pandemic, during which government officials played a strong role promoting public health measures vaccines.In Canada, provincial vaccine rollout was delivered 3 phases aligned federal guidance priority populations. In this study, we examined how Canadian used Twitter engage about and engagement has shaped response vaccines across jurisdictions.We...
Occupational therapists have agreed that culture can affect therapy by influencing such factors as acceptance of a physical disability, attitude to the sick role, and perceived pain. however, seem ignored fact also affects influence learning. Learning be critical component paediatric occupational therapy; therefore, it would desirable if not necessary for who work with children from different cultural groups aware variations in those characteristics With this knowledge, able develop...
Abstract Background As the demand for mental health and substance use (MHSU) services increases, there will be an even greater need human resources to deliver this care. This study investigates how family physicians’ (FP) contact volume, more specifically, MHSU is shaped by demographic trends among FPs in British Columbia, Canada. Methods We used annual physician-level administrative billing data information on Columbia between 1996 2017. analyzes primary care service provision graduating...
In response to high demand and prolonged wait times for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in Ontario, Canada, we developed predictive models stratify patients into high- or low-intensity treatment, aiming optimize limited healthcare resources.
Iterated language learning experiments have shown that meaningful and structured signalling systems emerge when there is pressure for signals to be both learnable expressive. Yet such mainly been conducted with adults using language-like signals. Here we explore whether can also domains are unfamiliar the learners children their well-attested cognitive pragmatic limitations. In Experiment 1, compared iterated of binary auditory sequences denoting small sets meanings in chains 5-7-year old...
In Ontario, the number of older adults (≥65) is expected to increase from 2.4 million in 2017, 4.6 by 2046. This substantial necessitates a spectrum care delivery options for who wish age their homes. Self-directed refers growing trend healthcare that provides recipients with more autonomy determine what they need, and how should be delivered. research explores self-directed Canada, examining an Ontario-based home agency, Gotcare, as case study. Semi-structured interviews were completed...