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Immigrant women’s experiences in receiving care in a mobile health clinic

Guruge, Sepali (2009)

The Mobile Health Clinic (MHC) is a viable model of care that can be linguistically and culturally appropriate, especially for immigrant women who face numerous barriers in accessing regular health services.

Strategies of resistance in the context of marginalization and globalization in India

George, Purnima; Moffatt, Ken (2009)

Social work at the grassroots level can help marginalized groups survive the negative impacts of globalization. Grassroots-level social work can also build knowledgeable and empowered communities that understand and resist ...

The role of social networks in employment: The experiences of South Asian women in Canada

George, Usha; Chaze, Ferzana (2009)

Networks of friends and family, or links with settlement service workers helped South Asian immigrant women by providing information, orientation, guidance or resources, and sometimes even employment. Networks that ...

Tell me what I need to know: Newcomer South Asian women’s information needs

George, Usha; Chaze, Ferzana (2009)

Information was the most important need of newcomer women to Canada. Friends and family were most likely to provide this information, along with an orientation to life in Canada. The research also highlighted the loneliness, ...

How do people with chronic health problems decide between treatment options?

Sidani, Souraya (2009)

People with chronic health problems seek information about different treatment options available to them and want to be involved in making decisions about their treatment. People choose a treatment based on what they ...

Examining patient education interventions delivered to patients living with heart failure

Fredericks, Suzanne; Beanlands, Heather; Spalding, Karen; Da Silva, Monica (2009)

The most effective heart failure patient education was one in which the content was tailored to the needs of the individual patient, the educator used a combination of mediums (face-to-face, audio-visual, written), and ...

Timing for delivering individualized patient education interventions to patients who have had heart surgery

Fredericks, Suzanne (2009)

A patient education plan that is tailored to meet the needs of an individual patient is important after heart surgery. The timing of the delivery of the education interaction has the potential to influence patients’ ...

Exploring the relationship between household food insecurity and diabetes in Canada

Gucciardi, Enza (2009)

Compared to individuals without diabetes, Canadians with diabetes are more likely to come from food-insecure households (households that do not have enough safe or nutritious food to meet their members’ needs for a healthy ...

Dietetic students’ experience of their education

Gingras, Jacqui (2009)

Nutrition students tend to feel alienated from themselves and from others around them as they start to accept and follow the norms and expectations of the dietetic profession.

Image construction as a strategy for resistance by progressive community organizations

George, Purnima; Moffatt, Ken; Barnoff, Lisa; Coleman, Brienne; Paton, Cathy (2009)

Progressive social work organisations often use the strategy of “fluid identity” to highlight different aspects of their identity consciously depending on who they are engaging (such as service users, funders, partners or ...

International development organizations and disability issues

Wehbi, Samantha (2009)

International development organizations do not discuss issues related to disability in their public documents. When these organizations do discuss disability, they often do it in a way that either treats persons with ...

Effectiveness of community health agents’ actions in situations of social vulnerability in Brazil

Zanchetta, Margareth (2009)

Community Health Agents (CHAs) in Araçatuba (State of São Paulo), Brazil faced the following barriers to working effectively with vulnerable clients: a feeling of powerlessness as professionals, communication gaps, fragmented ...

Nurse Practitioner and Physician Collaboration in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes

Donald, Faith (2009)

Effective collaboration between Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and physicians contributes to quality resident care in Long Term Care (LTC) homes.

Stories from the field: Practicing structural social work in current times

George, Purnima; Coleman, Brienne; Barnoff, Lisa (2010)

It is possible for social workers to use structural social work approaches even in the current context of practice by using creative ways of implementing services.

Developing an end-of-grant transition plan: Trainees’ perspective

Catallo, Cristina (2010)

Researchers need to involve end users in the creation of end-of-grant Knowledge Translation (KT) plans, including creating the message, packaging the information and sharing the research findings.

Older immigrant women speak about abuse and neglect

Guruge, Sepali (2010)

Due to societal-level factors, such as ageism and racism, older immigrant women experienced various forms of abuse and neglect at the hands of family members. The women’s choices in dealing with the abuse and neglect were ...

Mental health challenges and strengths of street youth

McCay, Elizabeth (2010)

Street youth suffer from high levels of mental health symptoms. At the same time, street youth also have positive self-esteem and are resilient. Therefore, programs designed to help street youth must address their mental ...

Translation as an issue of methodological significance in cross-cultural qualitative research

Wong, Josephine Pui-Hing (2010)

Language translation of research data is neither a value-neutral nor objective process. Translators bring their own understanding and world views to how they interpret the data. Translators should be recognized as important ...

Involving and engaging parents of children with individual education plans

Underwood, Kathryn (2010)

Parents could be engaged in their child’s learning even if they were not involved in their child’s school. Parents’ satisfaction with their child’s Individual Education Plan (IEP) was related to their child’s educational ...

The war-time experiences of Lebanese women disability rights activists

Wehbi, Samantha (2010)

Lebanese women disability rights activists carried out their work in a backdrop of war and in a social climate that is oppressive to women and persons with disabilities. Far from being passive victims of an oppressive ...

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