Canadian Journal of Public Health back issues from March 2004:
CPHA staff member to become Officer of Order of Canada
Mar 01, 2004; ... Among the many activities and accomplishments of the Association, we can point with pride to CPHA's Global Health Programs (GHP), which have made major contributions to the health promotion of people all around the world. The Update column in this issue of the CJPH is devoted to honouring the ...
Ecologic Proxies for Household Income: How Well Do They Work for the Analysis of Health and Health Care Utilization?
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: Researchers often use census-derived measures of socioeconomic status (SES) when personal information is not available. Theory predicts that the resulting misclassification will blunt associations between outcomes and SES and that control for confounding by SES will ...
Self-perceived Health Among Canadian Opiate Users: A Comparison to the General Population and to Other Chronic Disease Populations
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: There are an estimated 40,000 to 90,000 injection opiate users in Canada. The social, economic and health consequences of opiate addiction have been well documented. However, there are no data on the self-perceived health status of opiate users in Canada. Therefore, ...
My Place, Your Place, or a Safer Place: The Intention Among Montreal Injecting Drug Users to Use Supervised Injecting Facilities
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: Supervised injection facilities (SIF), a harm reduction intervention, may reduce several risks of public injection drug use. The prospect of conducting a scientific, multi-site pilot project of these facilities is being explored at federal and local levels in Canada ....
CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON Counter-Terrorism and Public Health: FINAL REPORT
Mar 01, 2004; ... October 29 - November 1, 2003 The Westin Harbour Castle * Toronto, Ontario Introduction The Canadian Conference on Counter-Terrorism and Public Health was held in Toronto from October 29 to November 1, 2003. The conference was sponsored by the Canadian Public Health ...
Health Care Reform and the Law in Canada: Meeting the Challenge
Mar 01, 2004; ... Health Care Reform and the Law in Canada: Meeting the Challenge Timothy A. Caulfield and Barbara von Tigerstrom Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2002; 288 pages, $39.95 This book is a collection of essays chat aims to engage Canadian legal academics and others concerned with ...
Estimating smoking-attributable mortality
Mar 01, 2004; ... Dear Editor: Re: Makomaski Illing EM, Kaiserman MJ. Mortality attributable to tobacco use in Canada and its regions, 1998. Can J Public Health 2004;95(l):38-44. Makomaski and Kaiserman recently estimated 47,581 smoking-attributable deaths for Canada in 1998. Measuring the burden ...
Travel Counsellors and Travel Health Advice
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: Travel Counsellors may be a source of health advice to travellers and might influence travellers' decisions to seek consultation from health professionals. We examined the travel health advice that Alberta travel counsellors currently provide their clients and ...
Moving from Description to Action: Challenges in Researching Socio-economic Inequalities in Health
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Romanow report emphasized that Canada is committed to the goal of equity in health care and health outcomes.1 Unfortunately, we are a long way from meeting this objective. As in most other countries, health in Canada is unevenly and, to some extent, unfairly distributed according to ...
Psychosocial Determinants of the Intention of Nurses and Dietitians to Recommend Breastfeeding
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Objectives: To identify the major psychosocial determinants of the intention of nurses and dietitians to recommend breastfeeding to new mothers for six months as well as the salient beliefs underlying this intention. Method: Following an open-ended questionnaire that ...
Science and Social Context: The Regulation of Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone in North America
Mar 01, 2004; ... Science and Social Context: The Regulation of Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone in North America Lisa Nicole Mills, Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002; 207 pages. This book is concerned with the history of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH) - a biotech drug that ...
Neighborhoods and Health
Mar 01, 2004; ... Neighborhoods and Health Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa F. Berkman, Eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; 352 pp, $103.50 US (hardcover), ISBN: 0-19-513838-4 Neighborhoods and Health represents a natural progression from Kawachi and Berkman's first book, Social Epidemiology, which is ...
Community-based Cultural Predictors of Pap Smear Screening in Nova Scotia
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: Pap smear screening is effective in reducing the incidence of cervical cancer. However, some subgroups of women are less likely to be screened than others. Since Canadian provincial health databases do not contain data fields identifying ethnicity or language, ...
Client Retention in the British Columbia Methadone Program, 1996-1999
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: Methadone treatment for heroin addiction has been available for 40 years, but there is relatively little research on the effectiveness of Canadian programs. This paper describes one-year retention among the client cohorts entering the British Columbia Methadone ...
The Health of Canadians on Welfare
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: Welfare programs provide income assistance to individuals whose resources are insufficient to meet their needs and who have exhausted all other avenues of support. With continued reductions in welfare in many provinces, the health of the nearly 2 million Canadians ...
Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-related Mortality in Canada, 1950-2000
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Objective: To describe trends in overall alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality in Canada, and to test regional associations between per capita alcohol consumption and alcohol-related mortality. Method: Alcohol sales for 1950-2000 were used to measure total ...
Alcohol Problems and Interest in Self-help: A Population Study of Alberta Adults
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: We quantified the prevalence of alcohol problems among Alberta adults and determined relationships between sociodemographic characteristics, problem drinking status, and interest in self-help materials to reduce alcohol use. Methods: A computer-aided ...
Immunization Programs in Non-traditional Settings
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: The Downtown Eastside (DIES) of Vancouver is an inner-city neighbourhood of 10 square blocks where poverty, crowded housing, homelessness, poor nutrition and hygiene, chronic illness, and substance abuse put residents at risk for communicable diseases. The objective ...
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada's Health Check Food Information Program: Modelling Program Effects on Consumer Behaviour and Dietary Practices
Mar 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Background: A conceptual model was proposed and tested in order to link attitudinal and awareness factors that might explain changes in food purchase behaviours and dietary patterns related to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada's Health Check food information ...
The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander: From Pre-School to High School - How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander: From Pre-School to High School - How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence Barbara Coloroso, Toronto, ON: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2002; 218 pages, $34.95. Barbara Coloroso explores the relevant and prominent issue of ...
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Mar 01, 2004; ... Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Eric Schlosser, New York: HarperCollins, 2002; 383 pp, $21.00 US (softcover) This book is about the one thing so intimately important to all human beings food. Author Eric Schlosser focusses on uncovering the unpleasant truths of ...
Why Women Bury Men: The Longevity Gap in Canada
Mar 01, 2004; ... Why Women Bury Men: The Longevity Gap in Canada Barbara Murphy. Winnipeg, MB: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, 2002; 143 pp, $17.95 This short book describes the risk factors for major leading causes of death in Canada with an emphasis on smoking, drinking, diet, exercise, and reckless ...
Une employee de l'ACSP deviendra Officier de l'Ordre du Canada
Mar 01, 2004 ... Parmi les nombreuses activités et réalisations de l'Association, nous pouvons compter avec fierté nos Programmes de santé mondiale (PSM), qui ont contribué de façon importante à la promotion de la santé dans le monde entier. La chronique <<Mise à jour>> de ce numéro de la RCSP rend ...
De la description a l'action: les defis de la recherche sur les inegalites socio-economiques en matiere de sante
Mar 01, 2004; ... Comme l'a souligné le rapport Romanow, le Canada est résolu à atteindre l'équité en matière de résultats sanitaires.[Symbol Not Transcribed] Nous sommes malheureusement très loin de cet objectif. Comme dans la plupart des autres pays, la santé au Canada est inégalement (et dans une certaine ...
Intervention de la sante publique lors de la survenue d'un cas de rage humaine au Quebec
Mar 01, 2004; ... 1. Unité Maladies infectieuses, Direction de santé publique de Montréal-Centre, Montréal (Québec) 2. Institut national de santé publique du Québec Correspondance: Docteur John Carsley, 1301 rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal (Québec) H2L 1M3, Tél.: 514-528-2400 poste 3675, Téléc.: ...