INTRODUCTION Health professions students interested in future rural practice locations spend a week learning about and investigating all aspects of small town personal, professional and community life. This augments the mainly clinical experience provided by clinical rotations they complete as part of their professional academic training program. METHODS Students from professional programs in...

Scholarship on Alberta's Sexual Sterilization Act (1928-1972) has focused on the high-level politics behind the legislation, its main administrative body, the Eugenics Board, and its legal legacy, overlooking the largely female-dominated professions that were responsible for operating the program outside of the provincial mental health institutions. This paper investigates the relationship betw...

For several decades, there have been efforts to "reform" nursing homes. Despite this, the calls for such reform continue unabated. Therefore, it might lead us to ask just what has been accomplished to date, and whether it is on the right track. True reform of health care-including long-term care-requires a strategy. A key part of that strategy is that the care must conform to some universal and...

The World Health Organization estimates a global deficit of about 12.9 million skilled health professionals (midwives, nurses, and physicians) by 2035. These shortages limit the ability of countries, particularly resource-constrained countries, to deliver basic health care, to respond to emerging and more complex needs, and to teach, graduate, and retain their future health professionals-a vici...

OBJECTIVES 1) To describe the community health nursing workforce in Canada; 2) To compare, across political jurisdictions and community health sectors, what helps and hinders community nurses to work effectively; 3) To identify organizational attributes that support one community subsector--public health nurses--to practise the full scope of their competencies. METHODS Our study included an a...

School of Public Health, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago. Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center, University of Colorado–Denver Health Science Center. School of Nursing, University of Washington. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity. UNC Institute on Aging, University of North Carolina. Division of...

1 Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. 3 Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 4 Population and Family Health Science, Bloomberg Sch...

Nursing has interfaces with numerous other areas in the production of knowledge, involving Biological and Health Sciences (Medicine, Biology, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, and others), the Humanities (Psychology, Education, History) and Applied Social Sciences (Organizations, Work , Education, Communication, Information Technology and Economics). Many of these interfaces/interactions are already...

AIM to analyze whether the nursing process method is used at public and private centers in the health area Gipuzkoa (Basque Country) and, if yes, to analyze in the framework of which model and how it is used. METHOD cross-sectional study, based on the analysis of the nursing records used at the 158 centers studied. RESULTS the nursing process is applied at 98% of the centers. It is applied ...

1 Health Inequalities Research Group, Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (GREDS-EMCONET), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2 CIBER Epidemiologı́a y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 Department of Po...