Browsing Health Sciences - Collected Works by Title
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Dietary Change of English, French and Chinese Speaking Immigrants in Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada
(SciMed Central, 2015-05-15)Objectives: The multicultural study aims at examining Dietary Change (Dietary Behaviour Change and Dietary Belief Change) of English, French and Chinese speaking immigrants in Ottawa and Gatineau, Canada, and identifying ... -
e-Research Meets e-Health
(Australian Computer Society, 2008)This paper considers some key aspects of e-Research methodology and infrastructure which are relevant to e-Health, and identifies some promising areas in e-Health where these aspects could be used beneficially . -
The effect of group involvement on post-disaster mental health: A longitudinal multilevel analysis
(Elsevier, 2018-11-07)Involvement in voluntary associations is a key form of social capital and plays an especially important role following disaster as a venue for coordination and decision-making for the wider community. Yet, relatively little ... -
Effectiveness of a Web 2.0 Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Real-World Settings: Randomized Ecological Trial
(JMIR Publications, 2017-11-17)Background: The translation of Web-based physical activity intervention research into the real world is lacking and becoming increasingly important. Objective: To compare usage and effectiveness, in real-world settings, ... -
Effectiveness of a Web- and Mobile Phone-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity and Healthy Eating in Middle-Aged Males: Randomized Controlled Trial of the ManUp Study
(Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2014)Background: The high number of adult males engaging in low levels of physical activity and poor dietary practices, and the health risks posed by these behaviors, necessitate broad-reaching intervention strategies. Information ... -
Effectiveness of a website and mobile phone based physical activity and nutrition intervention for middle-aged males: Trial protocol and baseline findings of the ManUp Study
(BioMed Central, 2012-08-15)Background: Compared to females, males experience higher rates of chronic disease and mortality, yet few health promotion initiatives are specifically aimed at men. Therefore, the aim of the ManUp Study is to examine the ... -
Effects of Short-Term Physical Activity Interventions on Simple and Choice Response Times
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)Objective. Response time (RT) is important for health and human performance and provides insight into cognitive processes. It deteriorates with age, is associated with chronic physical activity (PA), and improves with PA ... -
Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection: A Narrative Review
(Springer, 2016-09)Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) was once considered a primarily nosocomial concern. Emerging evidence from the last 20 years has highlighted a drastic shift in the known epidemiology of CDI, with disease outside of ... -
Estrogen, estrogen receptors, and hepatocellular carcinoma: Are we there yet?
(Baishideng Publishing Group Inc., 2018-01-07)A protective role of the sex steroid hormone estrogen in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was suggested a few decades ago according to clinical data showing higher HCC morbidity and mortality among males. Several recent ... -
Evaluating success of mobile health projects in the developing world
(IOS Press, 2014)Many mobile health (mHealth) projects, typically deploying pilot or small scale implementations, have been undertaken in developing world settings and reported with a widely varying range of claims being made on their ... -
Evaluating the use of citizens' juries in food policy: a case study of food regulation
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background Deliberative engagement techniques and citizens' juries are touted as means of incorporating the public into policy decision-making, managing community expectations and increasing commitment to public health ... -
Evaluation of the Young Deadly Free Peer Education Training Program: Early Results, Methodological Challenges, and Learnings for Future Evaluations
(Frontiers, 2019-04-05)Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience disproportionately higher rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs) when compared with the non-Indigenous population. ... -
Evaluation Study of Australian Telehealth Projects
(Australian Computer Society, 2015-01-27)This paper provides an overview of selected telehealth projects involving pilot or trial implementations, undertaken in Australia in the period since 2000, which have undergone substantial formal evaluations reported in ... -
Examining Participant Engagement in an Information Technology-Based Physical Activity and Nutrition Intervention for Men: The Manup Randomized Controlled Trial
(JMIR Publications, 2014-01-03)Background:Males experience a shorter life expectancy and higher rates of chronic diseases compared to their female counterparts. To improve health outcomes among males, interventions specifically developed for males that ... -
Expansion of Sphingosine Kinase and Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor Function in Normal and Cancer Cells: From Membrane Restructuring to Mediation of Estrogen Signaling and Stem Cell Programming
(MDPI, 2018-01-31)Sphingolipids, sphingolipid metabolizing enzymes, and their receptors network are being recognized as part of the signaling mechanisms, which govern breast cancer cell growth, migration, and survival during chemotherapy ... -
Expressive phenomenology and critical approaches in the classroom: process and risks for students of health sciences
(University of Adelaide, 2010)This article explores the use of expressive phenomenological and critical approaches to the teaching of health policy to a large class of first year health professional students studying both internally and through distance ... -
Family quality of life and nurturing the sibling relationship
(University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada, 2018)Research that gauges family quality of life in families that include a child with a disability has often focused on the relationship between parents and the child, but in doing so they underestimate the importance of the ... -
Family quality of life and the building of social connections: practical suggestions for practice and policy
(University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada, 2018)Family quality of life literature suggests that families with a member with an intellectual/developmental disability frequently face major difficulties in building social connections with others. They experience low levels ... -
Feasibility of a novel participatory multi-sector continuous improvement approach to enhance food security in remote Indigenous Australian communities
(Elsevier, 2017-06-23)Background Food insecurity underlies and compounds many of the development issues faced by remote Indigenous communities in Australia. Multi-sector approaches offer promise to improve food security. We assessed the ... -
Gendered relations to working time: enterprise bargaining outcomes in acute care and community nursing settings in Australia
(The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, 2009)In this paper we examine the outcomes of the 2001, 2004, 2007 Enterprise Bargaining Agreements between the Australian Nursing Federation (SA) and the South Australian Government with particular focus on union-based strategies ...