No App, No Entry: Conceptualizing Digital Technology Captivity in Service Access
ABSTRACT We introduce Digital Technology Captivity (DTC), a form of consumer vulnerability that arises when digital technologies become the mandatory gateway to essential services. When access is tied to systems that feel unfamiliar, complex, or intimidating—and when preferred alternatives are limited—consumers may experience heightened vulnerability ...
Carolyn Wilson‐Nash +4 more
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Ecologies of Risk: Malaria and Settler Landscape Transformation in 19th-Century Ontario. [PDF]
Cooke A, Brickley MB.
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Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease
Abstract Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) in appropriately selected patients. DBS may be underused in certain patient populations, especially women and racialized groups. Barriers and biases to receiving DBS that could account for underuse among these groups are not well studied in Canada.
Fang Ba +14 more
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Considerations for Collecting Public Health Data on Justice-System Involvement. [PDF]
Boothe D +3 more
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After analyzing the burden of leukemia in the elderly aged 60–89 years from 1990 to 2019 using the Global Burden of Disease database, we found that although the burden of chronic myeloid leukemia has decreased over the past 30 years, the burden of other types of leukemia has continued to increase to varying degrees.
Jing Wei, Qijian Feng, Ziyuan Lu
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Is social connectedness still in decline after the Covid-19 pandemic? Cohort trends in secondary school students in Finland between 2017 and 2023. [PDF]
Read S +4 more
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Understanding community assembly for wild species in anthropogenic settings has become increasingly important as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened by development pressures. Urban hardscape habitats such as parking lots are widespread, extreme, terrestrial anthropogenic environments that influence plant community assembly by way of ...
Lauren J. Frazee +3 more
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Barriers to and Enablers of Preventive Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Among Women Seeking Asylum in Melbourne, Victoria: A Qualitative Study. [PDF]
Davidson N, Hammarberg K, Fisher J.
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Impact of Primary Spoken Language as a Social Determinant of Health on Cardiopulmonary Education and Use: Pilot Study. [PDF]
LeNeave C +3 more
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Ophthalmic care at an academic medical centre for patients who were incarcerated or in immigration detention. [PDF]
Wedekind LE +9 more
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