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Teaching Heart Auscultation to Health Professionals: Methods for Improving the Practice of an Ancient but Critical Skill
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Just Evidence: Opening Health Knowledge to a Parliament of Evidence
(CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)In this chapter, we present a complementary perspective to the oceans theme of this volume by ethnographically engaging the circulation of scientific knowledge and evidence in a different but comparable policy decision-making ... -
Exploring the post-genomic world: differing explanatory and manipulatory functions of post-genomic sciences
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-02-25)Richard Lewontin proposed that the ability of a scientific field to create a narrative for public understanding garners it social relevance. This article applies Lewontin’s conceptual framework of the functions of science ... -
Ambiguous Capture: Collaborative Capitalism and the Meningitis Vaccine Project
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-04-21)The primary health care approach advanced at Alma Ata to address social determinants of health was replaced by selective health care a year later at Bellagio. Subsequently, immunization was endorsed as a cost-effective ... -
Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: Results of a consultation study by the Canadian Immunization Research Network
(Public Library of Science, 2016-06-03)“Vaccine hesitancy” is a concept now frequently used in vaccination discourse. The increased popularity of this concept in both academic and public health circles is challenging previously held perspectives that individual ... -
Lueurs et leurres de la santé globale À propos de MenAfriVac®, un vaccin « africain » contre la méningite
(Open Edition Journals, 2017-12)In biomedical narratives, the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) enabled the technology transfer for the development and implementation of MenAfriVac® vaccine at an affordable price for African countries. The presentation ... -
Prepared for the “unexpected”? Lessons from the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa on integrating emergent theory designs into outbreak response.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-06)Summary Box 1. Even seemingly straightforward interventions, such as vaccine delivery, require real-time awareness of emergent on-the-ground local (‘field’) realities. 2. Outbreak response requires thoughtful engagement ... -
Do health care providers trust product monograph information regarding use of vaccines in pregnancy? A qualitative study
(Health Canada, 2018-06-07)Background: In uenza immunization is recommended in pregnancy to prevent severe infections in pregnant women and newborns, yet vaccine uptake remains low. Studies suggest that cautionary language in vaccine product monographs ... -
Maternal pre-pregnancy weight status and health care use for mental health conditions in the offspring
(Springer, 2019)Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between pre-pregnancy maternal weight status and offspring physician visits for mental health conditions in childhood and adolescence. Methods: We ... -
Cesarean Delivery and Healthcare Utilization and Costs in the Offspring: A Retrospective Cohort Study
(Elsevier, 2019)Objective: To examine the association between Caesarean section (CS) and health care utilization and costs in offspring from birth until age 7 years. Methods: A retrospective cohort study of singleton term births in the ... -
Birth weight for gestational age and the risk of asthma in childhood and adolescence: a retrospective cohort study
(BMJ, 2019)Objective: To examine the association between birthweight for gestational age and asthma in childhood and adolescence while controlling for potential confounders and considering smoking as an effect modifier. Methods: A ... -
Technologies of trust in epidemic response: openness, reflexivity and accountability during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa
(BMJ, 2019-02-13)Trust is an essential component of successful cooperative endeavours. The global health response to the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak confronted historically tenuous regional relationships of trust. Challenging ...