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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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Hospitals as a ‘risk environment’: An ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who inject drugs
McNeil, Ryan; Small, Will; Wood, Evan; Kerr, Thomas - In: Social Science & Medicine 105 (2014) C, pp. 59-66
-epidemiological study was undertaken in Vancouver, Canada to explore how the social–structural dynamics within hospitals function to produce …
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Talking with text: Communication in therapist-led, live chat cancer support groups
Stephen, Joanne; Collie, Kate; McLeod, Deborah; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 104 (2014) C, pp. 178-186
to more people in Canada. Although online support groups are becoming increasingly popular, little is known about …
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Motivation, justification, normalization: Talk strategies used by Canadian medical tourists regarding their choices to go abroad for hip and knee surgeries
Cameron, Keri; Crooks, Valorie A.; Chouinard, Vera; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 106 (2014) C, pp. 93-100
Contributing to health geography scholarship on the topic, the objective of this paper is to reveal Canadian medical tourists' perspectives regarding their choices to seek knee replacement or hip replacement or resurfacing (KRHRR) at medical tourism facilities abroad rather than domestically. We...
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