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Understanding The Complexities Of Workforce Issues Among Rural Social Workers, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Understanding The Complexities Of Workforce Issues Among Rural Social Workers, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Social Work Department Publications
This presentation addresses a brief history of knowledge around rural social work (including demographics), the current state of knowledge on rural workforce issues, the social work workforce in rural and remote areas, recruitment and retention issues and concerns, and suggestions for future development of social work workforce, research, and knowledge development.
Social Workers In Rural Areas: Research On Workforce Issues, Recruitment, And Retention, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Social Workers In Rural Areas: Research On Workforce Issues, Recruitment, And Retention, Paul Force-Emery Mackie
Social Work Department Publications
This presentation addresses a brief history of knowledge around rural social work, the current state of knowledge on rural workforce issues, the social work workforce in rural and remote areas, recruitment and retention issues and concerns, and suggestions for future development of social work workforce, research, and knowledge development.
Cancer Survival In Ontario, 1986-2003: Evidence Of Equitable Advances Across Most Diverse Urban And Rural Places, Kevin M. Gorey
Cancer Survival In Ontario, 1986-2003: Evidence Of Equitable Advances Across Most Diverse Urban And Rural Places, Kevin M. Gorey
Social Work Publications
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether place and socio-economic status had differential effects on the survival of women diagnosed with breast cancer in Ontario during the 1980s and the 1990s.
METHODS: The Ontario Cancer Registry provided 29,934 primary malignant breast cancer cases. Successive historical cohorts (1986-1988 and 1995-1997) were, respectively, followed until 1994 and 2003. Diverse places were compared: the greater metropolitan Toronto area, other cities, ranging in size from 50,000 to a million people, smaller towns and villages, and rural and remote areas. Socio-economic data for each woman's residence at the time of diagnosis were taken from population censuses.
RESULTS: …