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Enhancing Critical Reflection of Brazilian Community Health Agents’ Awareness of Social Determinants of Health

July 1, 2014

This project aims to assess how Brazilian community health agents’ critical awareness of the social determinants of health was enhanced and led to a greater understanding of the major structural changes necessary to sustain health promotion initiatives. Educational workshops inspired by Paulo Freire’s ideas on critical pedagogy were delivered to 82 community health agents in…
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The downward occupational mobility of internationally educated nurses to domestic workers

April 3, 2013

Despite the fact that there is unmet demand for nurses in health services around the world, some nurses migrate to destination countries to work as domestic workers. According to the literature, these nurses experience contradictions in class mobility and are at increased risk of exploitation and abuse. This article presents a critical discussion of the…
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Methodological Implications of Studying Migrant Philippine Educated Nurses working as Live-in Caregivers in Canada

July 1, 2012

The Live-in Caregiver Program is a Canadian temporary immigration program that allows qualified individuals to migrate to Canada to provide care to the elderly, children or the disabled, while living in the client’s home. Live-in caregivers qualify to become permanent residents in Canada after a minimum of 3900 hours of work. This paper reports on…
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Scientific and popular health knowledge in the education work of community health agents in Rio de Janeiro shantytowns

June 18, 2012

Health education for socially marginalized populations challenges the efficacy of existing strategies and methods, and the pertinence of the educational and philosophical principles that underpin them. The Brazilian Community Health Agents Initiative (CHAI) hires residents of deprived marginalized communities to undertake health promotion and education in their communities. The ultimate goal of the CHAI is…
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Vitamin D supplementation and CD4 count in HIV infected children

July 1, 2011

Objective: To evaluate, in a randomized fashion, the impact of vitamin D supplementation on CD4 count and measures of vitamin D homeostasis in children infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Study design: Children infected with HIV (n = 54) were randomized to receive no supplementation (group 1), vitamin D 5600 IU/week (group 2), or vitamin…
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Responding to the Needs of Muslim Seniors during the COVID-19

January 1, 1900

The Pandemic has severely limited seniors’ involvement in their local mosques.Mosques are spaces where seniors congregate to find spiritual comfort and social support.Leadership at Al-Rashid Mosque in Edmonton, Alberta, reported a decline in the wellbeing of seniors during the pandemic. This one-year project began in April of 2021 with the primary goal of supporting Muslim…
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Enhancing Critical Reflection of Brazilian Community Health Agents’ Awareness of Social Determinants of Health

The downward occupational mobility of internationally educated nurses to domestic workers

Methodological Implications of Studying Migrant Philippine Educated Nurses working as Live-in Caregivers in Canada

Scientific and popular health knowledge in the education work of community health agents in Rio de Janeiro shantytowns

Vitamin D supplementation and CD4 count in HIV infected children

Responding to the Needs of Muslim Seniors during the COVID-19

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