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Best Practices for Implementing a Living Wage Policy in Canada: Using Community-Campus Partnerships to Further the Community's Goal

Engaged Scholar Journal, 2015
The study explores one longitudinal case of engaged scholarship, the collaborative Best Practices for Implementing a Living Wage Policy in Canada: Using community-campus partnerships to further the community's goals presents best practices for ...
Natasha Pei, Janice Feltham, Ian Ford, Karen Schwartz   +3 more
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Perceptions on confronting sexual exploitation in Canada: Introducing new primary research

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2016
This paper provides a preview into new primary research into sexual exploitation and human sex trafficking in Canada. The project, for which interviewing is complete and analysis is now underway, is qualitative research taking a grounded, open-minded ...
Robert (Bob) Chrismas
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Moving beyond jargon: Operationalising gender-transformative approaches to end harmful practices against adolescents

Global Public Health
The UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage and the Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation aim to contribute to SDG target 5.3 on the elimination of harmful practices against women and girls through gender ...
Jose-Roberto Luna M., Amelia Rock, Ellen Alem, Joseph Mabirizi, Chelsea L. Ricker, Madhumita Das, Joseph Sewedo Akoro, Alana Kolundzija   +7 more
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Holding collaboration together: a community response using a violence threat and suicide prevention protocol

Frontiers in Public Health
Coordinated, multi-sectoral community responses to youth mental health represent a promising yet undertheorized approach to addressing the service fragmentation that characterizes collaborative work across education, health, policing, and community ...
Sharon Friesen, Jacqueline Yu, Stephen MacGregor   +2 more
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Collective Impact through Public Health and Academic Partnerships: A Kentucky Public Health Accreditation Readiness Example

Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
In the ever-changing, resource limited public health environment, the use of partners can provide training, consultation and technical assistance needed to increase local health department workforce capacity to meet new public health demands including ...
Angela eCarman
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Sylvia Cheng, Lucie Lafay‐Cousin, Vanan Issai Magimairajan, Craig Erker, Stéphanie Vairy, Lynette Bowes, Adam Fleming, Donna Johnston, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Julie Bennett, Christina Coleman, Laura Wheaton, Shayna Zelcer, Samuele Renzi, Thai Hoa Tran   +17 more
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Protocol: What works to increase the use of evidence for policy decision‐making: A systematic review

Campbell Systematic Reviews
This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows: Our aim is to collect, assess, and synthesise all the available empirical evidence on what works to support evidence‐informed decision‐making by policymakers.
Promise Nduku, John Ategeka, Andile Madonsela, Tanya Mdlalose, Jennifer Stevenson, Shannon Shisler, Suvarna Pande, Laurenz Mahlanza‐Langer   +7 more
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Biphasic Clinical Course of Pediatric Cytomegalovirus‐Associated Immune Thrombocytopenia: Early Poor Treatment Response but Favorable Long‐Term Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a recognized trigger of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP); however, its incidence and impact on disease course in children remain controversial. Therefore, we aimed to characterize the clinical course of pediatric patients with CMV‐associated ITP.
Oded Gilad, Ohad Atia, Osama Tanous, Dafna Brik Simon, Michal Dvori, Miriam Cohen, Tracie A. Goldberg, Efraim Bilavsky, Joanne Yacobovich, Orna Steinberg‐Shemer   +9 more
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A Community Network Ontology for Participatory Collaboration Mapping: Towards Collective Impact

Information, 2018
Addressing societal wicked problems requires collaboration across many different community networks. In order for community networks to scale up their collaboration and increase their collective impact, they require a process of inter-communal ...
Aldo de Moor
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Bone and Soft Tissue Neoplasms in Infants Versus Older Children: A Report From the Cancer in Young People in Canada Program

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Infant bone and soft tissue neoplasms present distinct clinical challenges and lack large‐scale data to inform treatment decisions. This study aims to characterize bone and soft tissue neoplasms in infants in Canada and to compare their outcomes with those of older pediatric patients.
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Maria Kondyli, Monia Marzouki, Nicolas Prud'homme, Nida Usmani, Rebecca J. Deyell, Lesleigh Abbott, Tony H. Truong, Sapna Oberoi, Ketan Kulkarni, Josée Brossard, Lynette Bowes, Paul Gibson, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Lillian Sung, Catherine Vezina, Laura Wheaton, Alexandra P. Zorzi, Marie‐Claude Pelland‐Marcotte, Thai Hoa Tran   +21 more
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