Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of Public Health:
Response to "Apartheid in Canada"
Sep 01, 2009; ... Dear Editor, As a physician and public health practitioner with 38 years of experience working and living in Northern British Columbia and the Yukon, in close proximity to First Nations citizens, I was immediately drawn to the title of your editorial "Apartheid in Canada".1 Finally, I ...
Psychometric Properties of a Scale Focusing on Perceived Attributes of a Health Promoting School Approach
Sep 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Objectives: The purpose of this paper was to investigate the psychometric properties of a newly-designed scale intended to measure the perceived attributes of a Health Promoting School initiative and its context in terms of factor structure, reliability and predictive validity ....
Barriers to Acceptance of Self-sampling for Human Papillomavirus across Ethnolinguistic Groups of Women
Sep 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Objectives: Immigrant and low socio-economic (SES) women in North America underutilize Papanicolaou screening. Vaginal swab self-sampling for oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) has the potential to increase cervical cancer screening participation. The purpose of this ...
Influenza Vaccine Use in Nunavut: A Brief Overview of the Uptake Rates across the Regions
Sep 01, 2009; ... Dear Editor, Influenza is a common respiratory illness that affects millions of Canadians each year.1 For most healthy adults and children, infections are not severe, but for vulnerable and/or high-risk populations such as the elderly, young children, individuals living in Aboriginal ...
Building Community and Public Health Nursing Capacity: A Synthesis Report of the National Community Health Nursing Study
Sep 01, 2009; ... Jane M. Underwood, RN, MBA,1 David L. Mowat, MBChB, FRCPC,2 Donna M. Meagher-Stewart, RN, PhD,3 Raisa B. Deber, PhD,4 Andrea O. Baumann, RN, PhD,1 Mary B. MacDonald, RN, MCEd,5 Noori Akhtar-Danesh, PhD,1 Bonnie M. Schoenfeld, RN, MS,5 Donna K. Ciliska, RN, PhD,6 Jennifer M. Blythe, PhD,1 Mélanie ...