Browsing Faculty of Health by Title

Variation in mode of physical activity by ethnicity and time since immigration: a cross-sectional analysis

Dogra, S.; Meisner, B. A.; Ardern, C. I. (2010-10)

BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) levels are known to be significantly lower in ethnic minority and immigrant groups living in North America and Europe compared to the general population. While there has been an increase ...

Vitamin D and Musculoskeletal Status in Nova Scotian Women Who Wear Concealing Clothing

Ojah, Rani C. I.; Welch, Jo M. (2012-05)

No abstract available.

What a “leftist” Brexit gets wrong

Bejan, Raluca (The Conversation, 2019-09-24)

What does Europe’s East-West divide tell us about its external borders?

Bejan, Raluca (Crisis Magazine, 2020-08-24)

What does social work have to do with the University of Toronto TA strike?

Bejan, Raluca; German, Marshal (rabble.ca, 2015-03-18)

What Initiatives have been Created to Meet the Needs of Women Experiencing Domestic Violence During COVID-19

Weeks, Lori (2020)

What the Iran plane crash tells us about Canadian nationalism

Bejan, Raluca (rabble.ca, 2020-01-14)

When caring is not enough: Emotional labor and youth shelter workers

Karabanow, J. (1999-09)

Organizations often dictate how their employees should behave through explicit rules and structures. In addition, sociologists and organizational theorists suggest that organizations invest energy, time, and money into ...

Whiteness in Question: the Anatomy of a Taxonomy Across Transnational Contexts

Bejan, Raluca (Springer, 2022-08-16)

The idea of whiteness has been used in the Anglo-American, middle-class, liberal settings to denote an essential group appurtenance on phenotypical and cultural terms and to code such appurtenance as a universal marker of ...

Why Europe’s plan on sharing migrant quotas is not good enough

Bejan, Raluca (rabble.ca, 2015-05-13)

Why social workers should support the CUPE 3912 labour strike

Bejan, Raluca (Canadian Dimension, 2022-10-22)

Why some EU countries are struggling to relocate migrants

Bejan, Raluca (The Conversation, 2019-12-01)

Word reading in English and Arabic in children who are Syrian refugees

Gottardo, Alexandra; Amin, Norah; Amin, Asma; Al-Janaideh, Redab; Chen, Xi; Paradis, Johanne (2020)

Young Adults

The LINC Project (2013-04-29)

We spoke with 47 young adults between the ages of 17 and 26 who live with a neurological condition. This Fact Sheet details their experience.

Youth and caregiver perspectives of barriers and facilitators to the transition from pediatric to adult care: A qualitative descriptive study (Preprint)

Cassidy, Christine; Kontak, Julia; Higgins, Amanda; Pidduck, Jacklynn; Gallant, Sarah Madeline; Anderson, Scott; Best, Shauna; Jeffers, Elizabeth; MacDonald, Sarah; Mackinnon, Lindsay; Mireault, Amy; Rowe, Liam; Walls, Rose; Daman, Ripu; Drake, Emily K.; Curran, Janet (2022)

Background: The transition from pediatric to adult care can be complex for youth and their caregivers. The transition emphasizes personal responsibility for health care management, which can be challenging for youth and ...