“Thinking Canada”

Mumps outbreaks in Canada and the United States: time for new thinking on mumps vaccines.

Mumps epidemics in Canada and the United States prompted us to review evidence for the effectiveness of 5 different vaccine strains. Early trials with the Jeryl Lynn vaccine strain demonstrated an efficacy of approximately 95%, but in epidemic conditions, the effectiveness has been as low as 62%; this is still considerably better than the effectiveness of another safe strain, Rubini (which has ...

The need for continuous systems thinking in public health in Canada.

a group of public health leaders in Canada called for the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) to establish an ongoing open forum for systematic reflection on public health system(s) elements in Canada as part of its annual conference. This call recognized that health system(s) reform in the country requires systems thinking in public health. CPHA recognized this need and offered us the op...

Are we close to systems thinking in public health in Canada?

(2)), public health leaders wrote about the establishment and reported on the outcomes of a forum during the annual conferences of the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) on the need for systems thinking in public health. Again, at the 2012 conference, we came together to understand the horizontal and vertical system challenges and assess whether we are closer to systems thinking in publi...

Dimensions for Thinking About Thinking

We start by making a distinction between mind and cognition, and by positing that cognition is an aspect of mind. We propose as a working hypothesis a Separability Hypothesis which posits that we can factor off an architecture for cognition from a more general architecture for mind, thus avoiding a number of philosophical objections that have been raised about the "Strong AI" hypothesis. We the...

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'