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A very interesting paper out of Norway (via, I believe, KU-UC E-Watch):
Evidence-Informed Health Policy: Using Research to Make Health Systems Healthier - Report from Kunnskapssenteret (Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services) (PDF, 112pp.) Read More...
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Dr. Alex Jadad was the first speaker in the new lecture series Bridgepoint Health launched in order to advance the community’s understanding of the economic, social and public impacts of complex chronic disease. See this lecture via Audio or Video Podcast: Read More...
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Street Health Stories, a 9-minute National Film Board of Canada film which weaves together statistics from the Street Health Report 2007 with the personal stories of several survey participants is now available on YouTube at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omQ5rr3GUk Read More...
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The health care innovation award winner in the Innovations in Health Promotion category was Whitby Mental Health Centre - Central East LHIN, for their Stomp out Stigma program encouraging teenagers to create anti-stigma mental health issue teams within Read More...
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The Ontario government announces Finalists For Celebrating Innovations In Health Care Expo 2007 Awards. In the Health Promotion category, the finalists are:
INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH PROMOTION St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto Central LHIN) Using Interventionist Read More...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong child, her American doctors,and the collision of two cultures
By Anne Fadiman I noticed this book on a colleague’s bookshelf and had to borrow it. It is, as the subtitle says, a story about an epileptic Read More...
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Just a few things for today — I’m sure nobody wants to be inside reading endless news on such a nice sunny day –
SpacingWire discusses social inclusion in the context of Toronto politics:
Social inclusion isn’t about rearranging chairs Read More...
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The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid “pass Read More...
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Editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal:
What’s killing and maiming Canada’s youth? / Qu’est-ce qui tue et blesse les jeunes du Canada?
Car crashes, is what. As a prevention strategy they suggest a graduated licensing system Read More...
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Key to Women’s Health: A Health Promotion Framework to Prevent Stroke Among Marginalized Women was successfully launched on March 7, 2007 at the Parliament Library, Toronto.
The presentation of the research findings was led by Inclusion Researchers, women Read More...
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