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The Meaning Of Health And Help Seeking Behaviours Among Refugees Who Have Experienced Collective Violence In Their Countries Of Origin: A Canadian Perspective, Gracia Mabaya
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This study aimed at understanding the meaning of health and the help seeking behaviours, pre and post migration, of refugees who have experienced collective violence in their countries of origin. An interpretative phenomenological approach with a purposive sample of three men and three women was used. Prior to migration, the participants’ meaning of health was deeply influenced by their experience of collective violence, which rendered their embodied experience of life as non-existent and meaningless. Access to health care was limited by the unavailability of sound medical infrastructures and lack of finances. Post migration, the perception of their health and help …
Community Responses To Wind Energy Development In Ontario, Emmanuel Songsore
Community Responses To Wind Energy Development In Ontario, Emmanuel Songsore
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The Province of Ontario has one of the most radical jurisdictions in the developed world for supporting and promoting renewable energy development. Legislatively, the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 is aimed at making Ontario a global leader in renewable energy development. Wind energy in particular represents one of the integral and controversial parts of these commitments. Several new installations have been built or announced and yet community opposition grows. Utilizing a media content analysis of national, regional and local newspapers circulated within the province of Ontario, this study documents and analyzes issues motivating community resistance to and/or support …
Indigenous Knowledge, Social Relationships And Health: Community-Based Participatory Research With Anishinabe Youth At Pic River First Nation, Katie Big-Canoe
Indigenous Knowledge, Social Relationships And Health: Community-Based Participatory Research With Anishinabe Youth At Pic River First Nation, Katie Big-Canoe
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Canada’s First Nations youth endure a disproportionate burden of health inequalities. While patterns of First Nation’s youth health point to distinctly social causes (e.g., lacking social support, violence and addiction), research has not adequately explored how the quality of local social environments influence First Nations youth health. Drawing from 19 in-depth interviews with Anishinabe youth, this community-based project utilized an Indigenous Knowledge framework to explore youth perceptions of health, social relationships, and the ways they interact. This research centred around four main objectives including: 1) understanding how Anishinabe youth define health & well-being; 2) exploring youth perceptions of social relationships; …
Oppression In The Lives Of Homeless Mothers With Mental Illness, Sarah J. Benbow
Oppression In The Lives Of Homeless Mothers With Mental Illness, Sarah J. Benbow
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Individuals with mental illness are overrepresented in the homeless population. However, within this group, the increasingly growing subpopulation of homeless mothers with mental illness face a unique set of challenges. The experiences of homeless mothers with mental illness were examined from the critical perspective of feminist f j intersectionality. The purpose of this study was to unveil experiences of oppression and | resistance in the lives of homeless mothers with mental illness, while learning from them [■ I what is conducive to their health. A qualitative secondary analysis was done using focus 1 group transcripts from a study examining issues …
Effects Of Dietary Selenium On The Health And Survival Of Wintering Lesser Scaup, Caroline M. Brady
Effects Of Dietary Selenium On The Health And Survival Of Wintering Lesser Scaup, Caroline M. Brady
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The acquisition and accumulation of selenium (Se) in the Lower Great Lakes (LGL) could be contributing to the continental decline of lesser and greater scaup (Aytha qffinis, A. marila). I exposed lesser scaup to background (0.8 ¿¿g/g), moderate (8.1 jUg/g) and high (20.7 jug/g) levels of dietary Se, measured survival rates and several indices of health in relation to hepatic Se concentrations. There was 100% survival of scaup exposed to Se for 10-weeks (staging duration) but birds in the high treatment group had lower lipid reserves. There was 93% survival after 23-weeks (wintering duration), but no differences among treatment groups …
The Rusty Years: Seniors’ Social Networking In Retirement, Michelle P. West
The Rusty Years: Seniors’ Social Networking In Retirement, Michelle P. West
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This thesis investigates how retirees in the Greater Toronto Area experienced the transition from work to retirement and how they dealt with the changes that they experienced. In particular, this work considers how individuals’ social networks are altered during the process of retirement and how individuals develop new social networks in order to adjust to these alterations. Anthropological methods of inquiry—participant- observation, individual interviews, and focus groups—were used to explore these phenomena. The results of this study reveal how recreational centers for seniors, and the programs offered at these centers, help retirees connect to their peers and their communities and …
Roman Dietetics, Monika K. Urbanski
Roman Dietetics, Monika K. Urbanski
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Various sectors of Roman society ate differently. Wealthy men were virtually unrestrained in making food selections, choosing freely from all of the foods around the Mediterranean. The available array thus enabled the elite to meet and surpass the nutritional guidelines of today's World Health Organization to the extent that they may have even been subject to problems of overnutrition. The lower classes are typically assumed to have been malnourished. On the contrary, the abundance of cereals and legumes they consumed would have provided them with most essential nutrients. Lower classes would also have deliberately sought out meat and fish products …
The Impact Of Head Injury On Neurological Symptoms And Health In Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence, Julie Lorenzin
The Impact Of Head Injury On Neurological Symptoms And Health In Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence, Julie Lorenzin
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a well recognized cause of significant health problems for women. Women who experience IPV are at risk of sustaining injuries to the head. The relationship between IPV and head injuries has not been well explored in the literature. This study examines the associations between extent of head injury, the neurological impact of such injury, and general physical and mental health of women who had experienced physical abuse by an intimate partner. This quantitative secondary analysis of a sample of women enrolled in the Women’s Health Effects Study showed high rates of head injury with loss …
Identifying Influences Of Social And Physical Environments On A Child’S Mode Of Travel To And From School, Kristian Larsen
Identifying Influences Of Social And Physical Environments On A Child’S Mode Of Travel To And From School, Kristian Larsen
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This study examined environmental influences on a child’s mode of travel between home and school. Students (n=614) from 21 schools throughout London, Ontario, completed a school-based travel survey. A Geographic Information System was used to link survey respondents to data on environmental characteristics around home and school neighbourhoods, and along the probable route to school. Logistic regression analysis tested the influence of environmental factors on mode of travel to and from school. Over 62 percent of students walked/biked to school and 72 percent home from school. The likelihood of actively commuting was associated with shorter trips, residential density, land use …
The Information Needs And Information-Seeking Patterns Of Women Coping With And Adjusting To Multiple Sclerosis, Lynda Mary Baker
The Information Needs And Information-Seeking Patterns Of Women Coping With And Adjusting To Multiple Sclerosis, Lynda Mary Baker
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease with an unpredictable course and no known cause or cure. Coping strategies of people with MS may therefore yield insights into information-seeking patterns. This study of information preferences was based on Miller's (1980) theory of information-seeking, which states that some people (monitors) cope by actively seeking information, while others (blunters) reject information. In this study, 251 female MS clinic patients were classified through the Miller Behavioral Style Scale (MBSS) as either monitors or blunters and by the length of time since diagnosis. It was hypothesized that monitors (in contrast to blunters) would …