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Socioeconomic History And Preventable Disease: A Comparative Analysis Of Fundamental Cause Theory, Andrea Wilson, Amir Erfani

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

Fundamental cause theory suggests that because persons of higher socioeconomic status have a range of resources that benefit health, they hold an advantage in warding off whatever particular threats to health exist at a given time. Therefore as risk factors that stratify health are eliminated, socioeconomic disparities in health remain. Accordingly, SES should be more strongly associated with diseases that are more preventable than with less preventable diseases, and SES should have a stronger relationship to health in countries where high economic inequality and no universal health insurance leads to greater competition for resources. Using longitudinal data from Canada (National …

Unequal Health, Health Care Needs And Ses Over The Life Course: The Role Of Health Insurance In A National Health System, Emilie Renahy, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

The association between health and income has been extensively described in the literature. However, accounts of the time dynamics of this relationship are scant, as are studies examining the modifying effect of public policies on this relationship, measured here through health insurance (HI). We used the National Population Health Survey, a cohort study of the general Canadian population spanning almost 10 years, from 1996 to 2004. We considered middle-aged participants (25-56, n=6116) by groups of 10 years.

Structural equation models were employed to assess the impact of HI on the pathway between socioeconomic status, health needs and health status. Regarding …

Keynote Address: Health Over The Life Course, Sylvain Segard

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

Sylvain Segard is a public policy manager with over 20 years of experience at the provincial, federal, and international levels in such diverse fields as economic and regional development, social policy, environment and sustainable development, maritime safety, corporate and strategic planning, and federal budget making. Mr. Segard is the Director General of the Center for Health Promotion with the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). He oversees a number of programs to promote healthy living among Canadians in general as well as initiatives targeted at reducing health risks among vulnerable populations. Prior to joining PHAC, Mr. Segard was Director General, …

Welcome And Opening Remarks, Roderic Beaujot

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

Roderic Beaujot is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Academic Director of the UWO Research Data Centre, and leader the SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Population Change and Lifecourse. He holds a PhD from University of Alberta (1975). For 1974-76 he was employed with the Demography Division at Statistics Canada, and has been at University of Western Ontario since 1976. His most noteworthy publications are Population Change in Canada (Oxford University Press, 2004, second edition with Don Kerr) and Earning and Caring in Canadian Families (Broadview, 2000). Most recently, he was the lead author of “Population change …

Welcome And Opening Remarks, Raymond Currie

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

Raymond F. Currie is the Executive Director of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (2002-2010). He is a retired professor of Sociology and Dean Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, were he was Dean of Arts (1991-1999). He served on the Data Liberation Initiative External Advisory Committee and Board of Management. His academic publications were in the area of urban sociology, sociology of religion and methodology. He was co-editor of “Fragile Truths; 25 Years of Sociology and Anthropology in Canada”. He has been invited to 15 Canadian universities to lecture on academic leadership and/or to evaluate undergraduate and graduate academic …

Statistics Canada Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Nicholas Spence

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

Nicholas Spence holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Western Ontario. He has worked in Ottawa for the federal government, and he is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Ontario, affiliated with the department of sociology and the department of health sciences. Nicholas is also Associate Director of the Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium (International), housed at the University of Western Ontario. His research expertise includes inequality/stratification, health, education/labor markets, and statistics and quantitative research methods.

Canadian Health Measures Survey, Colleen Bolger

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

Colleen Bolger is an analyst at Statistics Canada who has worked on developing data products and services for researchers for over 20 years. Currently working on the first data releases for the Canadian Health Measures Survey that integrates physical measurements and scientific data into population health information sources, she has worked on the development of the National Population Health Survey, integrated socio-economic journals such as Perspectives on Labour and Income and provided remote data services to international scholars for OECD publications. As a former senior scientific and economic editor at Statistics Canada, she guided many research papers and population studies …

Statistics Canada National Population Health Surveys (Nphs), Amir Erfani

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

Amir Erfani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nipissing University in Ontario, with a PhD. in Sociology from the University of Western Ontario. His research is in the areas of social, family, and health demography, studying reproductive health, health inequality over the life course, family transformation and childbearing behavior in developed and developing countries. Amir has recently studied induced abortion, contraceptive behavior, and low fertility in Iran; socioeconomic status and health over the life course in Canada and the U.S.; and familial orientations and childbearing behavior and non-marital births of Canadians.

Health Data In Ontario, Susan Bondy

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

No abstract provided.

Use Of Québec Administrative Data: The Chronic Disease Surveillance Model, Valérie Émond

Health over the Life Course Conference (2009)

Valérie Émond is an scientific expert at the Quebec Public Health Institute. Over the past 10 years, she has worked at developing chronic disease surveillance for the province of Quebec using administrative data. After developing the model for diabetes surveillance, she is currently working on an integreted chronic disease surveillance model, with a research focus on the elderly and multimorbidity. She has a background degree in actuarial mathematics from Université Laval and a Masters degree in demography from Université de Montréal. She has also worked for the Canadian Institute for Health Information where she acquired an extensive knowledge of health …

Vision For The Future, G. Sayeed Choudhury, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Kenning Arlitsch, Jessica Branco Colati, Sue Kunda, Marilyn Billings

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

This discussion will include 5 minute lightening talks by each presenter with an open floor discussion about the future of Institutional Repositories.

The Institutional Repository As A Publishing Platform, Richard W. Clement, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Jeffrey Belliston, Marilyn Billings, Jay Burton

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

J.G. will speak about the Edikit journal software. Jeff will speak about Open Journal Systems software. Rick and Marilyn will speak about publishing on their campus. Jay will talk about using online journal software.

Burning Questions: Participant Contributed Questions Discussion

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

This open discussion will involve all conference participants and will be generated from questions submitted at registration.

Moderated by Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

What Is Working Today: Success Stories In Marketing, Rights Management, And More, Heather Leary, Allyson Mower, Michelle Armstrong

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

This panel session will be a discussion of success stories by various IR Coordinators in their daily work with marketing, copyright clearance, workflow, distinctions between the Digital Library and IR, and more.

Institutional Repository Platforms, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, Kenning Arlitsch, Jessica Branco Colati, Sue Kunda

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

J.G. Bankier will be speaking on Digital Commons, a hosted platform by The Berkeley Electronic Press. Kenning Arlitsch will be speaking on CONTENTdm, a platform by OCLC. Jessica Colati will be speaking about Fedora. Sue Kunda will be speaking about dSpace.

Keynote - The Value Of Institutional Repositories, G. Sayeed Choudhury

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of September 30, 2009 meeting.

Contentdm Eposter, Oclc

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster about CONTENTdm, digital collection management software created and managed by OCLC.

Dspace Eposter, Dspace Foundation, Duraspace

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster on DSpace open source repository software that enables open sharing of content.

Digital Commons Eposter, The Berkeley Electronic Press

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster about Digital Commons, Institutional Repository software created and managed by The Berkeley Electronic Press.

Institutional Repositories & Discipline Repositories Eposter, Stacy Righini

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster about the Institutional Repository and how a Discipline Repository fits into the landscape.

Fedora Eposter, Fedora Commons, Duraspace

Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship

Electronic poster on Fedora Commons Repository Software, open source software for managing, preserving, and linking content.

Towards Virtual Information Literacy: Academic Librarian Integration Into Teacher Education Distance Learning Programs, Brenna K. Helmstutler

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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A Web-Based Bulletin Board As Edward Soja's "Thirdspace": Esl And Lgbtq Students Claim Home Turf, Li Gaoqing, Patricia T. Price, Pauline Wilkins Burton, Reuben Hayslett

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

We argue that all knowledge begins with the body, the physical space it occupies and the territory an individual defines as “home.” The taken-for-granted nature of this reality is disrupted by the experience of moving into a new cultural space, whether this space is defined physically or in discursive terms. Cultural space is an extension of personal identity, both the physical circumstances through which individual consciousness is shaped, and the conceptual connections through which individuals construct a vantage point in the world. The students whose writing we examine were from an ESL class in first-year composition and an upper-division class, …

Ic @ Ghc: Innovative Strategies For Increasing Student Information Competency Without Breaking The Budget, Meredith Ginn, Leslie Johnson, Travice Obas, Cindy Wheeler

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Innovative Strategies That Won’t Break Your Budget Information Competency at Georgia Highlands College (IC @ GHC) is a curriculum-wide plan implemented at a two-year college to increase student information competency levels. This presentation will discuss strategies which allowed the college to successfully meet the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) requirements of SACS through the use of innovative assessment and implementation measures which garnered enthusiastic faculty involvement and also managed to stay within a first year, $14,000 shoe-string budget. The plan was born out of a grassroots effort that involved students, faculty, and staff. The college community recognized the needs of a …

Psychosemiotics And Information Literacy Instruction: Identifying Signways In Library Tutorials, Barbara Laster, Barbara Blummer, Olga Kritskaya

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Cross Institutional Collaboration: Hbcu's Join Together To Further Their Information Literacy Goals, Beth Martin, Andrea Hylton, Monika Rhue

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Stealing The Word: A Comprehensive Strategy To Address Plagiarism, Matthew Simon

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Motivating African-American College Students Through Course-Integrated Library Instruction: Exploring The Role Of Encouragement, Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Amanda Wall

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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The Clicker Project: Pros And Cons Of Active Learning Techniques In The Library Classroom, Melissa Dennis

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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