Ridde, Valéry Gautier, Lara Dagenais, Christian Chabrol, Fanny Hou, Renyou Bonnet, Emmanuel David, Pierre-Marie Cloos, Patrick Duhoux, Arnaud Lucet, Jean-Christophe
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundAll prevention efforts currently being implemented for COVID-19 are aimed at reducing the burden on strained health systems and human resources. There has been little research conducted to understand how SARS-CoV-2 has affected health care systems and professionals in terms of their work. Finding effective ways to share the knowledge and ...
Gagnon, Monica Kansal, Nisha Goel, Ritika Gastaldo, Denise
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Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Migration is increasing at unprecedented rates worldwide, but inadequate mechanisms for granting citizenship or permanent residence have rendered many immigrants without legal status. We study the health of people without immigration status in Canada, building on a 2010 review on being without status and health. We employ an expanded definition of ...
Xuan, Bui Bich Armstrong, Claire W Ankamah-Yeboah, Isaac Hynes, Stephen Needham, Katherine
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Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
La alta mar proporciona una variedad de servicios ambientales que benefician a la sociedad. Sin embargo, ha habido pocos intentos por cuantificar los impactos al bienestar humano ocasionados por los cambios en la entrega de estos beneficios. Analizamos los valores de varios beneficios importantes de los servicios ambientales derivados de la protecc...
Lavalley, Jennifer Collins, Alex B Mayer, Samara Gaudette, Laurel Krüsi, Andrea McNeil, Ryan Boyd, Jade
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Culture, health & sexuality
Despite awareness of the role of drug use in shaping sex worker/client interactions, these dynamics remain poorly understood in the context of illicit fentanyl-driven overdose epidemics. This study examined sex workers' experiences negotiating client interactions amidst a toxic drug supply in Vancouver, Canada. Findings draw from two ethnographic s...
O'Leary, T Merkowsky, K Trask, C Bennett, W Kirychuk, S
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Journal of agromedicine
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) is produced in manure storage facilities and released during manure agitation. Exposure to this gas presents health risks to workers at daily exposure of greater than 10 parts per million (ppm). Exposure levels on BC dairy farms are unknown. The aim of this study was to document peak H2S exposure levels to operators and bysta...
Fantus, Sophia
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Culture, health & sexuality
This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study that examined how Canada's socio-political context influenced gestational surrogacy for same-sex male couples. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with gay fathers and gestational surrogates to investigate supports and barriers of pursuing surrogacy. Questions explored publicly available...
Allan, Ian Ammi, Mehdi
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Health economics, policy, and law
While ensuring adequate access to care is a central concern in countries with universal health care coverage, unmet health care needs remain prevalent. However, subjective unmet health care needs (SUN) can arise from features of a health care system (system reasons) or from health care users' choices or constraints (personal reasons). Furthermore, ...
Okechukwu, Chidubem Ekpereamaka Ells, Carolyn Newbold, Kenneth Bruce Joe-Ikechebelu, Ngozi Manneh, Balanding
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Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
To investigate the association between recency of immigration to Canada and the utilization of dental health services. The cross-sectional study sample (n = 2137) was drawn from the 2015-2016 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). It consisted of Canadian residents aged 12 years and older who resided in the two provinces and one territory who opt...
O’Brien, Sheila F. Lewin, Antoine Yi, Qi-Long Dowling, Graeme Fissette, Etienne Drews, Steven J.
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Cell and Tissue Banking
In late 2019 the respiratory illness, Corona Virus Disease-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged in China and quickly spread to other countries. The primary mode of transmission is person-to-person via respiratory droplets. SARS-CoV-2 has been identified in conjunctiva. Transmission by cornea transplant has not been reported but is theoreticall...
Lee, Yena Lui, Leanna M.W. Brietzke, Elisa Liao, Yuhua Lu, Ciyong Ho, Roger Subramaniapillai, Mehala Mansur, Rodrigo B. Rosenblat, Joshua D. McIntyre, Roger S.
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Journal of Affective Disorders
Objective : To compare the mortality risk due to covid-19 with death due to overdose in British Columbia, Canada. The opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency in 2016. Methods : Mortality risk was calculated in micromorts with covid-19 data for January–October 2020, derived from the BC Centre for Disease Control, and illicit drug toxi...
