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Rendre évident: une approche symétrique de la réglementation des produits thérapeutiques
(Érudit, 2010)
ENGLISH: Within the social studies of science, risk regulation regimes dominated by a technocratic approach are critiqued for neglecting public, socially situated epistemological standpoints, which, it is argued, are more ...
Challenges to immunization: the experience of homeless youth
(BMC Springer Nature, 2012)
Background: Homelessness is a critical social issue, both a product of, and contributing to, poor mental and physical health. Over 150,000 young Canadians live on the streets. Homeless youth experience a high incidence of ...
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 ...
Faster access to new drugs: Fault lines between Health Canada’s regulatory intent and Industry innovation practices
(Begell House, 2013)
Since 2003, Health Canada has been undergoing regulatory modernization to “ensure that Canadians have faster access to the safe drugs they need.” As national health agencies develop policies to modernize the regulation ...
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 ...
Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education
(2019-06-03)
Medical education is a messy tangle of social and material elements. These material entities include tools, like curriculum guides, stethoscopes, cell phones, accreditation standards, and mannequins; natural elements, like ...
Technologies of Exposure: Videoconferenced Distributed Medical Education as a Sociomaterial Practice
(Association of American Medical Colleges, 2018-11-21)
Purpose
Videoconferencing—a network of buttons, screens, microphones, cameras, and speakers—is one way to ensure that undergraduate medical curricula are comparably delivered across distributed medical education (DME) ...
Teaching and Learning with Videoconferencing at Regional Medical Campuses: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study
(2019)
Distributed medical education and instruction at regional medical campuses is becoming more prevalent. With its focus on connecting learners in multiple environments outside of traditional classroom or clinical environments, ...