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Enhancing Pulmonary Rehabilitation Access for Seniors with COPD through Knowledge Translation
Improving access to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) for seniors with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) means taking a closer...
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Critique on an Environmental Scan
An environmental scan is a strategic research tool used to assess the current landscape of healthcare services, policies, and barriers to...
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Stakeholder Identification: Improving Access to Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Seniors with COPD
This blog post explores the key individuals and groups who should be involved in efforts to improve access to pulmonary rehabilitation...
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What is Qualitative Systematic Review (QSR) / Qualitative Evidence Synthesis (QES)?
A Qualitative Systematic Review (QSR), also known as Qualitative Evidence Synthesis (QES), is a structured approach to conducting a...
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Turning a page to MHST 632 Health Promotion II
The content of my ePortfolio for MHST 631 – Health Promotion I, showcases my growing understanding of health promotion and its critical...
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Reflection on course MHST 631 Health Promotion I
This course has significantly expanded my understanding of health promotion and its critical role in improving individual and community...
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From Likes to Lungs: The Dangers of Vape Misinformation
Many people have access to social media, where a vast amount of information is constantly shared. This includes much health-related...
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Is the list of the social determinants exhaustive?
The list of the social determinants of health serves as a conceptual framework containing broad factors that influence population health....
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Looking Ahead: Thoughts and Expectations about this Health Promotion Learning Journey
The health topic I am eager to explore in this course is the low enrollment rate in pulmonary rehabilitation programs for seniors with...
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Evaluating with Ottawa Charter
Heat Health Prevention Measures and Adaptation in Older Populations—A Systematic Review This study implemented the Ottawa Charter for...
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A reflection on my learning journey in the course of MHST 601
The MHST 601: Critical Foundations for Health Disciplines course at Athabasca University has boarded my understanding of the Canadian...
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Future of our healthcare: Family doctors wanted
Family doctors can provide continuity care to patients. Continuity of care is a longitudinal relationship with a personal physician or...
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Indigenous mental health support - British Columbia and Alberta
Indigenous people are one of the vulnerable groups in Canada. Stacey (RRT from B.C.) and I (RRT from Alberta) researched Indigenous...
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System racism - the Sinclair's case
Two incidents were mentioned in Boyer (2017), but I will talk about Sinclair's case because that happened at the hospital where I worked...
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Support for mental illness: British Columbia and Alberta
Stacey (RRT from B.C.)and I (RRT from Alberta) compared the support for mental illness between British Columbia and Alberta. Rasali et...
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Looking at Tobacco Cessation and Control through the lens of a Socio-Ecological Model (SEM)
Tobacco cessation and control is so complex that using multilevel models helps identify the factors and determinants. To understand the...
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How "universal" is our healthcare?
World Health Organization states that Universal Health Coverage (UHC) means that all people have access to the health services they need,...
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Determinants of Health
I remember there was a time when my friend Jane and I volunteered in a soup kitchen; it was Jane's first time serving meals to homeless...
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What is "health"?
What is "health"? What makes one a "healthy" person? I have been feeling very sick with nasty bronchitis for two weeks now, and does it...
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To Post, or Not to Post? My professionalism within Social Media
What is my professionalism? To practise as a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) in Alberta, I am required to maintain my professional...
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