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Enhancing The Privacy Framework: An analysis of Privacy in Canadian and Brazilian health care
(2014-12-23)
In the last decade, with organizations’ increased reliance on digital storage of information, privacy laws have been implemented and updated to help govern the collection, use, disclosure, storage and destruction of personal ...
THE DETERMINANTS OF ADULT PARTICIPATION IN JOB-RELATED EDUCATION/TRAINING IN CANADA: WHO GETS ACCESS?
(2011-12-16)
In this thesis, we explore determinants of Canadian workers’ job-related education and training take-ups by using the 2008 Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS). We implement three models, OLS, probit ...
THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH STATUS ON FUTURE LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER CANADIANS - A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS
(2012-08-21)
Canada’s population is aging rapidly, and understanding living arrangements and their determinants plays a critical role in supporting healthy aging. This thesis examined, using a population-based longitudinal survey, the ...
Elasmobranch Bycatch in the Canadian Northwest Atlantic and Arctic Adjacent Seas: Composition, Biogeography, and Mitigation
(2015-03-31)
BACKGROUND: Industrial fishing has profoundly changed the biological state of oceans and seas. While the direct impacts of overfishing on target stocks are being increasingly addressed, unwanted bycatch and discarding of ...
Assessing progressivity and catastrophic effect of out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Canada: 2010-2015
(2018-08-31)
This study uses Statistics Canada’s Survey of Household Spending (SHS) to examine progressivity and catastrophic effect of OOP healthcare expenditures (OOPHE) in Canada from 2010 to 2015 inclusive. The Kakwani Progressivity ...
We've Always Been Here: Tracing Shifts in the Portrayal of Status, Agency and Mi'kmaw Women's Activism in the Micmac News, 1971-1979
(2018-07-26)
This thesis uses the Micmac News to explore the rise of status and non-status Mi’kmaw
women’s activism in Nova Scotia chronologically, from 1971 to 1979. It traces change in
opinion, practice and community needs over ...
Mismatched: A Quantitative Evaluation of Thinking Versus Doing Masculinity in Canadian Sport
(2017-09-01)
Increasing pressure and activism for social justice is challenging the primacy of hegemonic masculinity. As a result, inclusive masculinities, signified by stereotypically feminine traits are argued to exemplify the current ...
Exploring Risk and Resilience Concepts: A Social-Ecological Coastal Community Case Study from Southwest New Brunswick, Canada
(2019-12-20)
Social-ecological systems (SES) are integrated systems of nature and society, with reciprocal feedbacks. The goal of this research was to better understand risk and resilience concepts, and their interactions, in a coastal ...
THE LIVING AMONGST THE DEAD: THE ROLE OF HALIFAX CEMETERIES AS GREENSPACE AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR EXPANSION OF THE URBAN FOREST
(2019-08-30)
Urban forests provide cities with a multitude of benefits but face many survival challenges. This thesis sought to determine the potential for cemeteries to expand the urban forest in Halifax, Nova Scotia through tree ...
A qualitative exploration of sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections (STBBIs) in a Canadian province: the utility of the social ecological model in understanding and reducing the spread of STBBIs in Nova Scotia
(2019-12-12)
Rates of sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) have been on the rise over the last two decades in Canada. The goal of this study was to better understand the local factors contributing to the spread of ...