Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (and often narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review. Impartial review, especially of work in less narrowly defined or inter-dis...

Providing a brief concluding chapter to a very comprehensive and data-rich volume is a challenging task. This also proved to be the case in making some concluding comments to the conference on which this volume is based. In this final chapter, we seek to combine comments made in summing up the conference with some broad-brush attempts to encapsulate key issues that have been raised, both by con...

Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (and often narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review. Impartial review, especially of work in less narrowly defined or inter-dis...

Parabhdeep (Prabh) Lail, BSc, is an MD/MSc student in the Leaders in Medicine program in the Undergraduate Medical Education Program and Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. Krista Wilkinson obtained her MSc at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and is currently a Field Epidemiologist with th...

Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (and often narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review. Impartial review, especially of work in less narrowly defined or inter-dis...

Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (and often narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review. Impartial review, especially of work in less narrowly defined or inter-dis...

Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (and often narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review. Impartial review, especially of work in less narrowly defined or inter-dis...