• Integrated HIV care and service engagement among people living with HIV who use drugs in a setting with a community-wide treatment as prevention initiative: A qualitative study in Vancouver, Canada 

  Collins, Alexandra B.; Parashar, Surita; Hogg, Robert S.; Fernando, Saranee; Worthington, Catherine; McDougall, Patrick; Baltzer Turje, Rosalind; McNeil, Ryan (Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2017-03)

  Introduction: Social-structural inequities impede access to, and retention in, HIV care among structurally vulnerable people living with HIV (PLHIV) who use drugs. The resulting disparities in HIV-related outcomes among ...
• Fear, Risk, and the Responsible Choice: Risk Narratives and Lowering the Rate of Caesarean Sections in High-income Countries 

  Hallgrimsdottir, Helga; Shumka, Leah; Althaus, Catherine; Benoit, Cecilia (AIMS Public Health, 2017)

  In Canada, as elsewhere in the world, caesarean sections are the most common surgical procedure performed in hospitals annually. Recent national statistics indicate 28% of infants in Canada are born by c-section while in ...
• Heuristics for Comparing the Lengths of Completed E-TSP Tours: Crossings and Areas 

  MacGregor, James N. (Journal of Problem Solving, 2017)

  The article reports three experiments designed to explore heuristics used in comparing the lengths of completed Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem (E-TSP) tours. The experiments used paired comparisons in which participants ...
• Sustainable by design: how to build better institutions for fisheries management in British Columbia 

  Mitchell, Darcy Anne (2018-07-25)

  The contemporary crisis in the world's fisheries has been both predictable and predicted for several decades, and has assumed a consistent pattern: as stocks are fished to commercial extinction, fishing effort is displaced ...
• Health Equity Talk: Understandings of Health Equity among Health Leaders 

  Pauly, Bernadette M.; Shahram, Sana Z.; Dang, Phuc T. H.; Marcellus, Lenora; MacDonald, Marjorie (AIMS Public Health, 2017)

  Introduction: Reducing health inequities is a stated goal of health systems worldwide. There is widespread commitment to health equity among public health leaders and calls for reorientation of health systems towards health ...
• Changes in First-Year Students’ Use of Research Resources: Impacts of an Interdisciplinary Seminar Program on Research and Literacy Learning Outcomes 

  Murray, Jacqueline; Lachowsky, Nathan J. (The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017)

  The Internet, which has made information ubiquitous and seemingly infinite, has transformed education. Universities are challenged to educate students to navigate and evaluate critically the undifferentiated information ...
• The Future of Child and Youth Care Education: Insights from Canada 

  Mann-Feder, Varda; Scott, Daniel G.; Hardy, Bruce (International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 2017)

  This article reports on an analysis of a conversation held at a World Café gathering in the spring of 2014. At that time, a group of 25 professionals involved in higher education in Child and Youth Care engaged in a ...
• Challenges in a Western Canadian Police Force to the Recruitment and Retention of Police Cadets from Four Visible Minority Groups – South Asian, Chinese, Filipino and Black 

  Rigaux, Catherine (2018-07-16)

  Many Western Canadian police forces have identified a strategic objective to recruit and retain more members from visible minority groups in order to create a response oriented service that acknowledges factors in the ...
• An exploration of experiences of extreme abuse 

  Charles, Grant (2018-07-13)

  This study has examined in detail the experiences of an individual who was ritually abused as a young person. Two other people, who had been ritually abused, were also interviewed in order to serve as a means of triangulation ...
• A qualitative study into how 'mainstream', undergraduate social work education in the Maritime Provinces of Canada prepares social work student to work with Indigenous Peoples 

  Goyette, Ashley (2018-07-11)

  This study focused on how mainstream, social work education in the Maritime provinces prepares social workers to work with Indigenous peoples. This study adhered to principles of decolonization and Indigenous ways of ...
• Re-imagining care: thinking with feminist ethics of care 

  Thomson, Jenny (2018-07-11)

  The term care has been part of the CYC title since the University of Victoria School of Child and Youth Care (CYC) opened in the 1970’s, making care a central aspect of CYC’s public and professional identity. The purpose ...
• Health within illness: experiences of the chronically ill/disabled 

  Liz, Lindsey (2018-07-11)

  Chronic illnesses and disabilities are the number one health problems in North America, and are the health challenges of this era. Many studies have investigated the illness experience for people with chronic conditions, ...
• Women who are mothers: experiences of self-definition 

  Hartrick, Gweneth Ann (2018-07-11)

  Recent literature has challenged traditional views of women's development of self . Many scholars have suggested that the traditional concept of self-as-autonomous being does not reflect women's experiences. Further, ...
• Health link: a wide area telecommunication network for health care providers 

  McDaniel, James Grennell (2018-07-11)

  Early computerized health information systems supported applications in hospital records and laboratory data collection. Since that time, software has been developed for a number of health care providers such as doctors ...
• Friends of the government: an administrative history of the British Columbia government agents 

  Anholt, Dennis Munroe (2018-07-03)

  The pivotal figures in the district administration of British Columbia have been the Government Agents. For over a century, isolated citizens received the services of the state from their local agent. The tasks they performed ...
• Usability problems do not heal by themselves: National survey on physicians’ experiences with EHRs in Finland 

  Kaipio, Johanna; Lääveri, Tinja; Hyppönen, Hannele; Vainiomäki, Suvi; Reponen, Jarmo; Kushniruk, Andre; Borycki, Elizabeth; Vänskä, Jukka (International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2017-01)

  Purpose: Survey studies of health information systems use tend to focus on availability of functionalities, adoption and intensity of use. Usability surveys have not been systematically conducted by any healthcare professional ...
• Teaching health information science for health care instructors 

  Fiore, Pasquale (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015)

  Health Information science is part of health care. Today the use of technology by health care students is relevant in all parts of their communication. How can we better prepare students wanting to work in health care to ...
• Learning in the real world environment: a classification model based on sensitivity to within-dimension and between-category variation of feature frequencies 

  Lam, Newman Ming Ki (2018-06-22)

  Research on machine learning has taken numerous different directions. The present study focussed on the microstructural characteristics of learning systems. It was postulated that learning systems consist of a ...
• Pathways to policies: A report on National Security Researchers and Policy Makers’ Sharing of Knowledge 

  MacIntyre, David (2018-06-18)

  The objective of this project was to determine what type of administrative intervention may be appropriate and effective in improving Public Safety Canada’s security and intelligence policy analysts’ access and use of ...
• Core knowledge translation competencies: A scoping review 

  Mallidou, Anastasia A.; Frisch, Noreen; Atherton, Pat; Chan, Liza; Glegg, Stephanie; Scarrow, Gayle (2018-06-18)

  Background: Knowledge translation (KT) is the broad range of activities aimed at supporting the use of research findings leading to evidence-based practice (EBP) and policy. Recommendations have been made that capacity ...

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