Below you will find my curated list of learning resources provided in my MHST/NURS 601: Philosophical Foundations of Health Systems course, organized by the units that we have gone through.

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Unit 1: Inter-professional Connectedness

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ACOGNews. (2013, September 26). Social Media Professionalism in the Medical Community [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N8A5LMlego&feature=youtu.be

 

Melrose, S., Park, C., & Perry, B. (2015). Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions. Retrieved from http://epub-fhd.athabascau.ca/clinical-teaching/chapter/chapter-four-professional-socialization-of-health-care-professionals/

 

Nations, D. (2018, March 19). What is Social Media? Lifewire. Retrieved from https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-social-media-explaining-the-big-trend-3486616

 

“Nurse Who ‘Vented’ Online Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct”. (2016, December 03). CBC News. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/srna-discipline-social-media-nurse-saskatchewan-1.3880351

 

Oddone, K. (2016, August 3). Digital Content Curation More Important Than Ever! [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://www.linkinglearning.com.au/digital-content-curation-more-important-than-ever/

 

“What are Digital Competencies?”. (n.d) Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved from https://www.brynmawr.edu/digitalcompetencies/what-are-digital-competencies

 

Unit 2: Federal and Provincial Health Systems in Canada

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“Canada Health Act – Links to Provincial and Territorial Health Care Web Resources”. (2017). Government of Canada. Retrieved from https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-care-system/canada-health-care-system-medicare/provincial-territorial-health-care-resources.html

 

Flood, C.M., & Thomas, B. (2016). Modernizing the Canada Health Act. Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper. Retrieved from https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2907029

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“Professional Portfolios”. (n.d). University of Lethbridge. Retrieved from https://www.uleth.ca/education/resources/professional-portfolios

 

“Province of Alberta- Health Professions Act”. (2017). Alberta Queen’s Printer. Retrieved from http://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?page=H07.cfm&leg_type=Acts&isbncln=9780779740772

 

“Understanding the Canada Health Act”. (n.d). The Council of Canadians. Retrieved from https://canadians.org/sites/default/files/publications/CHA%20Feb%202010.pdf

 

Examples of e-portfolios

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Carla Rodrigo

http://crodrigo3.wixsite.com/ca5rodri

 

Daniel Fuller

http://walkabilly.ca/home/

 

Irene Welch

https://irenewelch.wordpress.com/

 

Nareefa Nasrudeen

http://nnasrude.wixsite.com/nnasrude

 

Taylor Fox

http://misstaylorfox.weebly.com/

 

Yevgen Yasynskyy

http://eyasynskyy.wixsite.com/mdde610portfolio

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Unit 3: Health of Canadians – Understanding Health and Determinants of Health

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Brook, R. (2017). Should the Definition of Health Include a Measure of Tolerance?  Journal of the American Medical Association, 317(6), 585-586. Doi:10.1001/jama.2016.14372. Retrieved from https://0-jamanetwork-com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/journals/jama/fullarticle/2601506

 

Huber, M. (2011). Health: How Should We Define It? British Medical Journal, 323(7817), 235-237. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/23051314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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Unit 4: Multilevel Approaches to Understanding Health – Beyond the Individual

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Galea, S. (2015, May 31). The Determinants of Health Across the Life Couse and Across Levels of Influence. BU School of Public Health. Retrieved from https://www.bu.edu/sph/2015/05/31/the-determination-of-health-across-the-life-course-and-across-levels-of-influence-2/

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Thongs, G., Gahman, L. (2017, September 20). In the Caribbean, Colonialism and Inequity Mean Hurricanes Hit Harder. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/in-the-caribbean-colonialism-and-inequality-mean-hurricanes-hit-harder-84106?utm

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Unit 5: Chronic Disease Prevention and Management

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“Chronic Disease Prevention and Management”. (2007). Government of Canada. Retrieved from https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-care-system/reports-publications/primary-health-care/chronic-disease-prevention-management.html

 

Unit 6: Vulnerable Populations

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Barrera, J. (2017, October 24). Health Canada Knew of Massive Gap in First Nations Child Health Care, Documents Show. CBC News. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/health-canada-ruling-children-1.4368393

 

“Racism in Health Care is ‘A Real Thing,’ Says Indigenous Physician”. (2016, August 15). CBC News. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/alika-lafontaine-bias-racism-health-care-1.3722120

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Richmond, C.A., & Cook. C. (2016). Creating Conditions for Canadian Aboriginal Health Inequity the Promise of Healthy Public Policy. Public Health Reviews, 37 (2). Retrieved from https://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40985-016-0016-5

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Unit 7: Future Direction

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“Calls to Action”. (2012). Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Retrieved from www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Findings/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

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