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Acknowledgements, Ava John-Baptiste, Gerald Mckinley
Acknowledgements, Ava John-Baptiste, Gerald Mckinley
Western Public Health Casebooks
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Foreword, Greg Taylor
Casebook Title Page & Front Matter
Casebook Title Page & Front Matter
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Preface, Amardeep Thind
Acknowledgements, Amanda Terry, Ava John-Baptiste
Acknowledgements, Amanda Terry, Ava John-Baptiste
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Case 1 : The Fire Under The Shed: The Cornerstone Fuelling Our Plight, Omolola Oyinkan Adeshina, Kwaku Poku Asante, Ava John-Baptiste
Case 1 : The Fire Under The Shed: The Cornerstone Fuelling Our Plight, Omolola Oyinkan Adeshina, Kwaku Poku Asante, Ava John-Baptiste
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In Ghana, smoke from biomass fuel cook stoves leads to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in children under five. Akosua Agborson, a research fellow, had the opportunity to work with the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) team at the Kintampo Health Research Centre to address this public health issue. The GRAPHS team is responsible for reducing air pollution and improving cook stoves for households in Ghana. Akosua decided to support the GRAPHS team by doing a case research study on gari processing involving biomass fuel. She focused on gari processors because Ghana is the sixth largest producer …
Case 2 : Teleophthalmology Screening: Economic Evaluations In Health Care Decision Making, Faten Bahnacy, William Hodge, Mark Speechley
Case 2 : Teleophthalmology Screening: Economic Evaluations In Health Care Decision Making, Faten Bahnacy, William Hodge, Mark Speechley
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This case presents a dilemma that can happen to anyone with an intervention to offer, which they are confident would alleviate a problem they believe is worth addressing. Many public health professionals will find themselves in one of two positions. The first, a position of believing so much in a proposal but not sure of how to make it go through. The second, a position of a decision maker who would be faced with more than one needed, effective, feasible, and sustainable proposal but could implement one or a few due to limited resources.
The case is meant to shed …
Case 5 : Vaccination Under The Midnight Sun: Validation Of An Immunization Registry In The Northwest Territories, Shannon Leblanc, Heather Hannah, Amanda Terry
Case 5 : Vaccination Under The Midnight Sun: Validation Of An Immunization Registry In The Northwest Territories, Shannon Leblanc, Heather Hannah, Amanda Terry
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With the implementation of mandatory reporting of all immunizations in the Northwest Territories (NWT) in 2012, the Department of Health and Social Services’ (DHSS) Disease Registry Unit was working toward the implementation of a new immunization registry similar to those implemented across the country. However, the current immunization registry was in the format of an Excel workbook. The DHSS noticed several issues with the quality of the data maintained in the spreadsheets. As part of Janet’s practicum, she conducted an audit of the immunizations for the cohort of children born between 2012 and 2014, inclusive, within the registry.
Community health …
Case 3 : Ciguatera Fish Poison: An Emerging Risk Associated With Climate Change?, Molly Dion, Patricia Huston, Lloy Wylie, Charles Trick
Case 3 : Ciguatera Fish Poison: An Emerging Risk Associated With Climate Change?, Molly Dion, Patricia Huston, Lloy Wylie, Charles Trick
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This case takes place in the Bahamas and surrounds a complex toxic illness, Ciguatera Fish Poisoning (CFP). It discusses how CFP is contracted and where it is most common, as well as prevention and diagnosis methods. It then goes into the context of the Bahamas, setting the stage in terms of health care, health of the population, government, and various employment industries. Due to its location in the Caribbean, the Bahamas has a large number of tourists each year contributing to the number of CFP cases, as well as affecting the local populations in a variety of ways. This case …
Case 4 : The Unique Role Of Leadership In Public Health, Savnit Kaur, Pegeen Walsh, Ava John-Baptiste, Amanda Terry
Case 4 : The Unique Role Of Leadership In Public Health, Savnit Kaur, Pegeen Walsh, Ava John-Baptiste, Amanda Terry
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Sarah Johnson was given the task to create a Public Health Leadership Hub within the OPHA website that could provide resources for development of leadership for professionals in the Public Health sector. Another task was to work on developing an initial curriculum for an intensive leadership development program. Both of these tasks would be a part of the development of a Leadership Center at OPHA. Some of the ground work was already done by the Ontario Public Health Association, including a program proposal.
Sarah started doing a scan on developments taking place in this field in Canada and other parts …
Introduction, Sudit Ranade
Case 6 : Safe Needles Save Lives, Zhe Li, Shaya Dhinsa, Amardeep Thind
Case 6 : Safe Needles Save Lives, Zhe Li, Shaya Dhinsa, Amardeep Thind
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Harm reduction practices have been identified as effective and promising approaches to drug use. Instead of focusing on drug users giving up using drugs, the principles of harm reduction aim to reduce the harms associated with drug addiction (Ontario Harm Reduction Distribution Program, n.d.). Providing clean needles and syringes without a limit on the amount, harm reduction practices encourage drug users to access the supplies needed to ensure they are injecting drugs safely and prevent the spread of blood-borne diseases (Ontario Harm Reduction Distribution Program, n.d.).
In response to the increasing incidences of intravenous drug use and disease transmission, the …
Case 7 : What Do We Do About The Families?, Burton Mohan, Alexxa Abi-Jaoude, Andrew Johnson, David Wiljer, Ava John-Baptiste
Case 7 : What Do We Do About The Families?, Burton Mohan, Alexxa Abi-Jaoude, Andrew Johnson, David Wiljer, Ava John-Baptiste
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Families are involved in the support of many people with mental health conditions. Support ranges from financial, housing, help with ADL (activities of daily living) etc. Families can also be useful sources of clinical information/history during inpatient treatment. Families generally want to be more involved in the care of their loved ones while they are in hospital.
Mental health literacy includes knowledge and information on access and evaluation related to mental health pathology/issues. This includes being able to assess and identify mental health pathology and symptoms. Increasing mental health literacy (and health literacy) among family members can lead to improved …
Case 8 : Ismile Project – Improving Seniors’ Mouthcare In Long-Term Care Establishments, Edesiri Udoh, Maria Vanharten, Chimere Okoronkwo, Amardeep Thind
Case 8 : Ismile Project – Improving Seniors’ Mouthcare In Long-Term Care Establishments, Edesiri Udoh, Maria Vanharten, Chimere Okoronkwo, Amardeep Thind
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The Ontario universal healthcare coverage through the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) was established to provide for the health needs of Ontarians ranging from children to the elderly. However, it does not include oral healthcare. Publicly funded programs that provide dental services are offered to children from low income families, recipients of Ontario works, and Ontario Disability Support with no program for seniors. With most seniors already retired and no longer receiving employment derived dental benefits, those in need of dental services would have to purchase private insurance or pay out-of-pocket. The cost of dental treatment for those who cannot …
Case 9 : Shifting Culture Between Patients And Health Care Teams To Impact Symptom Screen And Management, Vanessa Yeboah, Melissa Beilhartz, Millie Litt, Mark Speechley
Case 9 : Shifting Culture Between Patients And Health Care Teams To Impact Symptom Screen And Management, Vanessa Yeboah, Melissa Beilhartz, Millie Litt, Mark Speechley
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Health Promotion Specialist Lisa Grey is faced with the task of strengthening patient and health care team culture using the Edmonton Symptoms Assessment Screening (ESAS) tool. ESAS is a standardized symptom screening tool used in health care settings across Ontario and is completed by patients at each clinic visit. The tool measures and tracks a patient’s symptom severity relating to nine common cancer symptoms. Symptoms are an indication of the progression of cancer and patient health status. ESAS gives an opportunity to identify symptoms earlier on, prevent emergency admission, and manage symptoms such as pain (Barbera et al., 2012; Barbera …
Case 11 : The Case Of The Long-Lived Orchestra Conductors, Mark Speechley
Case 11 : The Case Of The Long-Lived Orchestra Conductors, Mark Speechley
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There may be no part of epidemiology more central to public health practice than the evaluation of causal claims about exposures that keep us healthy, make us sick, and help us get better again. Some causal claims are sufficiently self-evident that we learn them as toddlers: hot stoves cause “owwies”. But causal questions in public health are much more complex, and to approach them we need to learn to ‘think like an epidemiologist’.
This requires us to think critically about causal claims as we develop our skills in applying the logic of causal inference. When faced with a causal claim …
Case 10 : Babies And Budgets: Balancing Costs And Consequences In Postpartum Screening, Ava John-Baptiste, Yoshith Perera, Sudit Ranade
Case 10 : Babies And Budgets: Balancing Costs And Consequences In Postpartum Screening, Ava John-Baptiste, Yoshith Perera, Sudit Ranade
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Dr. Philip Singe, the Medical Officer of Health at the King Public Health Unit, is in a meeting with Praveen Gill, manager of the Healthy Babies, Healthy Children (HBHC) program, and Vanessa Thomas, the director of the Family Health portfolio. The group is discussing options for delivering postpartum screening services under the provincially funded HBHC program. While program costs have increased steadily, funding from the provincial Ministry responsible for oversight of HBHC has been stagnant. The group must decide whether or not to cut costs by reducing the number of staff responsible for screening. Faced with the challenge of maintaining …