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Enhancing policy coherence for healthy product environments: Bridging theory, research and practice

ƻ��Ժ — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 02:48:30 +0000

In June 2019, experts from around the world gathered in Montreal to discuss the pressing challenge of policy coherence for tobacco, alcohol and food governance.

Ethical Challenges in the Provision of Mental Health Services for Children and Families During Disasters

ƻ��Ժ — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:48:27 +0000

A review of academic and grey literature to identify ethical issues associated with the provision of mental health care during disasters, with particular attention to children and families.

Authors: Matthew Hunt, Nicole E. Pal, Lisa Schwartz and Dónal O’Mathúna

Link to article here.

Earthquakes to Floods:A Scoping Review of Health-related Disaster Research in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

ƻ��Ժ — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:14:33 +0000

A scoping review by Catherine M. Tansey, John Pringle, Anushree Davé, and Matthew Hunt.

Introduction: Health-related disaster research is a relatively small; but growing field of inquiry. A better understanding of the scope and scale of health-related disaster research that has occurred in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) would be useful to funders, researchers, humanitarian aid organizations, and governments as they strive to identify gaps, disparities, trends, and needs of populations affected by disasters.

Training Trainers in India

ƻ��Ժ — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:38:02 +0000

A first in a series of blog posts about an exciting new project led by a joint team from Amar Seva Sangam (ASSA) in Tamil Nadu, India, Handi-Care International and the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, ƻ��Ժ.

Palliative care in humanitarian crises: a review of the literature

ƻ��Ժ — Tue, 22 May 2018 03:40:56 +0000

Palliative care in humanitarian crises: a review of the literature

A review by Elysée Nouvet, Mollie Sivaram, Kevin Bezanson, Gautham Krishnaraj, Matthew Hunt, Sonya de Laat, Stephanie Sanger, Laura Banfield, Pedro Favila Escobio Rodriguez and Lisa J. Schwartz.

Link to article here.

Building sustainable fieldwork partnerships between Canada and India: Finding common goals through evaluation

ƻ��Ժ — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:41:24 +0000

Building sustainable fieldwork partnerships between Canada and India: Finding common goals through evaluation.

An article by Caroline Storr, Janna MacLachlan, Dinesh Krishna, Ramasubramanian
Ponnusamy, Donna Drynan, Carmen Moliner, Kristina McLaughlin, Susanne
Murphy, Megan Edgelow, Margaret Anne Campbell-Rempel, Ann Bossers,
Heidi Lauckner & Debra Cameron.

Link to article here.

Canada’s global health role: supporting equity and global citizenship as a middle power

ƻ��Ժ — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:36:47 +0000

Canada’s global health role: supporting equity and global
citizenship as a middle power.
An article by Stephanie A Nixon, Kelley Lee, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, James Blanchard, Slim Haddad, Steven J Hoffman, Peter Tugwell

Link to article here.

Community Based Rehabilitation and Ethics: Eight Ethical Questions from a Review of the Literature

ƻ��Ժ — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 06:25:16 +0000

Stephen Clarke, Jessica Barudin, Matthew Hunt. (2016). Community Based Rehabilitation and Ethics: Eight Ethical Questions Arising from a Review of the Literature. Physiotherapy Canada. 68(2):197-205.

Link to article here.

Whole-of-government approaches to NCDs: the case of the Philippines Interagency Committee-Tobacco

ƻ��Ժ — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 06:10:55 +0000

This article points to the importance of not only structural features of whole-of-government approaches for NCD control but also the institutional culture and entrenched political and economic interests.

For more information and the article, see here.

Where do physiotherapy and rehabilitation research fit?

ƻ��Ժ — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:50:04 +0000

Stephanie Nixon and Matthew Hunt editorial; Global Health: Where do physiotherapy and rehabilitation research fit? " Physiotherapy Canada, 67(3), pp. 217–218

For more information about the Article, click here.

Perceptions of disability in the 2010 Haiti earthquake response

ƻ��Ժ — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:11:04 +0000

Matthew Hunt & colleagues' new study on perceptions of disability in the 2010 Haiti earthquake response.

Hunt, M. R., Chung, R., Durocher, E., & Henrys, J. H. (2015). Haitian and international responders' and decision-makers' perspectives regarding disability and the response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Global health action, 8.