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Early life socioeconomic conditions in rural areas and old-age mortality in twentieth-century Quebec
Gagnon, Alain; Bohnert, Nora - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 8, pp. 1497-1504
and residential details of children living in rural areas of Quebec, Canada, in 1901 were linked to their subsequent ages …
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Encouraging maternal health service utilization: An evaluation of the Bangladesh voucher program
Nguyen, Ha T.H.; Hatt, Laurel; Islam, Mursaleena; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 7, pp. 989-996
financing mechanisms to encourage the use of professional maternal health services. The current study evaluates one such …
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Willingness to pay for voluntary community-based health insurance: Findings from an exploratory study in the state of Penang, Malaysia
Shafie, A.A.; Hassali, M.A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 96 (2013) C, pp. 272-276
Health care in Malaysia is funded primarily through taxation and is no longer sustainable. One funding option is voluntary community-based health insurance (VCHI), which provides insurance coverage for those who are unable to benefit immediately from either a social or private health insurance...
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How community environment shapes physical activity: Perceptions revealed through the PhotoVoice method
Belon, Ana Paula; Nieuwendyk, Laura M.; Vallianatos, Helen - In: Social Science & Medicine 116 (2014) C, pp. 10-21
activity among residents in four communities in the province of Alberta, Canada, in 2009. After taking pictures, the thirty …
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Professional integration as a process of professional resocialization: Internationally educated health professionals in Canada
Neiterman, Elena; Bourgeault, Ivy Lynn - In: Social Science & Medicine 131 (2015) C, pp. 74-81
professionals (IEHPs) in Canada. Analyzing data from qualitative interviews with 179 internationally educated physicians, nurses …
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Trends and structural shifts in health tourism: Evidence from seasonal time-series data on health-related travel spending by Canada during 1970–2010
Loh, Chung-Ping A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 173-180
has been lacking. This study employs Canada's outbound health tourism activities as an example to examine the trends in …
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From retreat to health centre: legislation, commercial opportunity and the repositioning of a Victorian private asylum
Joseph, Alun E.; Moon, Graham - In: Social Science & Medicine 55 (2002) 12, pp. 2193-2200
owned psychiatric hospital in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Using documentary and archival evidence, we show how the Homewood …
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Immigrant health, place effect and regional disparities in Canada
Wang, Lu; Hu, Wei - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 8-17
to the reported health of Chinese immigrants, Canada's largest recent immigrant group. A healthy immigrant effect is …
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Ethics is for human subjects too: Participant perspectives on responsibility in health research
Cox, Susan M.; McDonald, Michael - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 224-231
participated in a variety of types of health research in Canada, this paper focuses on subject perspectives on responsibility in …
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Institutional ethical review and ethnographic research involving injection drug users: A case study
Small, Will; Maher, Lisa; Kerr, Thomas - In: Social Science & Medicine 104 (2014) C, pp. 157-162
Ethnographic research among people who inject drugs (PWID) involves complex ethical issues. While ethical review frameworks have been critiqued by social scientists, there is a lack of social science research examining institutional ethical review processes, particularly in relation to...
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