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Operationalizing the Quintuple Aim of Health System Improvement Through Equity-Oriented Health Care Open
Health systems in Canada and elsewhere are reeling from ongoing syndemic shocks and mounting political-economic concerns that are having significant negative impacts on health equity, and on staff recruitment, wellbeing, and retention. Pre…
Technology-Related Trauma in Sexual and Reproductive Health Digital Technologies: Grounded Theory Study Open
Background Digital health technologies are increasingly used as complementary and alternative means of seeking sexual and reproductive health services. These platforms now play a critical role in facilitating services such as contraception…
Emergency department violence involving patients who use unregulated substances: A systemic perspective Open
This paper examines emergency department staff perspectives of patient violence in the context of care provision for people who use unregulated substances. Study findings demonstrate that disconnects between what patients need and what sta…
Reconceptualizing biomedical paradigms for contraceptive care through feminist poststructuralism Open
In the specificities of contraceptive care, sexual health is comprehensively defined as overall physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being related to sexuality, including experiences that are safe, pleasurable, and free of coercion…
Digital Artifacts of Self‐Representation: A Critical Qualitative Analysis of Nursing Memes Open
Stereotypes in mass media depict harmful and inaccurate portrayals of nurses and nursing work. As memes are understood to be units of culture, they may be examined as artifacts, deepening understandings of contemporary culture. This critic…
Understanding Parenting and Pregnant Women’s Perceptions of Accessing, Utilizing, and Barriers to Seeking Social Support for Mental Well-Being Open
Social support has been considered essential for enhancing mental well-being. However, perceptions of support are crucial for promoting psychological well-being, which is shaped by one’s social position across axes of socioeconomic status …
Social justice as nursing resistance: a foucauldian discourse analysis within emergency departments Open
Social justice is consistently upheld as a central value within the nursing profession, yet there are persistent inconsistencies in how this construct is conceptualized, further compounded by a lack of empirical inquiry into how nurses ena…
Social justice in Canadian nursing professional documents: A Foucauldian discourse analysis Open
Social justice is widely advanced as a central nursing value, and yet conceptual understandings of social justice remain inconsistent and vague. Further, despite persistently articulated commitments to upholding social justice, the profess…
Trauma-Informed Technology Design in Digital Sexual Health Interventions Open
Digital health provides a great opportunity to increase access to sexual health information and/or services. However, it can inadvertently cause emotional trauma to end users depending on how it is designed or deployed. In this study, we e…
Using a health equity lens to measure patient experiences of care in diverse health care settings Open
People who are structurally disadvantaged and marginalized often report poor health care experiences, such as inequitable treatment, due to intersecting forms of stigma and discrimination. There are many measures of patient experiences of …
Co-designing an Outreach Intervention for Women Experiencing Street-Involvement and Gender-Based Violence: Community–Academic Partnerships in Action Open
Outreach is an important approach to improve health and social care for women experiencing street involvement (SI) or gender-based violence (GBV). Few studies have examined outreach approaches that incorporate SI and GBV. Drawing on femini…
Using a health equity lens to measure patient experiences of care in diverse healthcare settings Open
People who are structurally disadvantaged and marginalized often report poor health care experiences due to intersecting forms of stigma and discrimination. There are many measures of patient experiences of care, however, few are designed …
Differing Effects of Implementation Leadership Characteristics on Nurses’ Use of mHealth Technologies in Clinical Practice: Cross-Sectional Survey Study Open
Background Leadership has been consistently identified as an important factor in shaping the uptake and use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies in nursing; however, the nature and scope of leadership remain poorly delineated. This lack…
Differing Effects of Implementation Leadership Characteristics on Nurses’ Use of mHealth Technologies in Clinical Practice: Cross-Sectional Survey Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Leadership has been consistently identified as an important factor in shaping the uptake and use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies in nursing; however, the nature and scope of leadership remain poorly delineated. This lack…
Exploring the conceptualization, operationalization, implementation, and measurement of outreach in community settings with hard-to-reach and hidden populations: A scoping review Open
Outreach is as a strategy employed by those in health and social services, which generally involves establishing relationships and providing support to people situated in hard-to-reach and hidden populations. However, there is a lack of cl…
EQUIP Emergency: Can interventions to reduce racism, discrimination and stigma in EDs improve outcomes? Open
Background Despite a publicly funded system, health care in Canada has been shown to be deeply inequitable, particularly toward Indigenous people. Based on research identifying key dimensions of equity-oriented health care as being cultura…
Through An Equity Lens: Illuminating The Relationships Among Social Inequities, Stigma And Discrimination, And Patient Experiences of Emergency Health Care Open
People who experience the greatest social inequities often have poor experiences in emergency departments (EDs) so that they are deterred from seeking care, leave without care complete, receive inadequate care, and/or return repeatedly for…
Nurses’ Use of mHealth Functions Open
Nurses’ use of mHealth remains largely unexplored despite enthusiasm for its use in health systems. We conducted a survey (n=341) to examine nurses’ use of mHealth technologies in Canada; this paper presents findings of sub questions withi…
“Food engages people, as we know”: health care and service providers’ experiences of using food as an incentive in HIV care and support in British Columbia, Canada Open
Food insecurity is widely documented among people living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide, and it presents significant challenges across the spectrum of HIV care and support. In North America, the prevalence of food insecurity among PLWH exceeds …
Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding Open
Public health is tasked with addressing the urgent global priority of promoting the health and human rights of adults engaged in sex work and research is critical to support this endeavor. 'What' is studied, 'how' research is done, and 'wh…
Organizational support for frontline harm reduction and systems navigation work among workers with living and lived experience: qualitative findings from British Columbia, Canada Open
BACKGROUND The inclusion of people with lived and living experience of substance use is essential to effective and client-centered harm reduction services and strategies. The aim of this study is to critically examine and characterize work…