Costs for Tuberculosis Care in CanadaCanadian Journal of Public Health - Tập 99 - Trang 391-396 - 2008
Dick Menzies, Megan Lewis, Olivia Oxlade
We have estimated tuberculosis (TB)-related expenditures by governments and other third parties in Canada in 2004, in order to compare spending on different activities, by various jurisdictions, and in different regions. To ascertain health system costs (including public health costs), a self-administered questionnaire was completed by all federal, provincial, and territorial health departments an...... hiện toàn bộ
Bed Bugs and Public Health: New Approaches for an Old ScourgeCanadian Journal of Public Health - Tập 103 - Trang e399-e403 - 2012
Mona Shum, Elizabeth Comack, Taz Stuart, Reg Ayre, Stéphane Perron, Shelley A. Beaudet, Tom Kosatsky
Objective: To share four Canadian cities’ experiences with bed bug infestations and to explore public health roles in managing them. Methods: We summarize presentations from a workshop at the 2010 Canadian Public Health Association Conference which examined the re-emergence of bed bugs in Canada and compared management approaches of municipal and public health authorities in four large Canadian ci...... hiện toàn bộ
The Rising Burden of Rheumatoid Arthritis Surpasses Rheumatology Supply in OntarioCanadian Journal of Public Health - - 2013
Jessica Widdifield, J. Michael Paterson, Sasha Bernatsky, Karen Tu, J. Carter Thorne, Vandana Ahluwalia, Noah Ivers, Debra Butt, R. Liisa Jaakkimainen, George Tomlinson, Claire Bombardier
Accurate data on the burden of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are scarce, but critical in helping health care providers and decision makers to optimize clinical and public health strategies for disease management. We quantified the burden of RA in Ontario from 1996 to 2010 by age, sex and health planning region. We used the Ontario Rheumatoid Arthritis administrative Database (ORAD), a validated popula...... hiện toàn bộ
The BIAS FREE FrameworkCanadian Journal of Public Health - Tập 97 - Trang 63-68 - 2006
Margrit Eichler, Mary Anne Burke
Objective: To test the applicability of the BIAS FREE Framework in African settings. Participants: Researchers from the Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Research, university and community-based researchers from Tanzania, the Gambia and South Africa. Setting: National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam - Tanzania. Intervention: An intensive two-day workshop to examine the applica...... hiện toàn bộ
High Health Care Utilization and Costs Associated with Lower Socio-economic Status: Results from a Linked DatasetCanadian Journal of Public Health - Tập 100 - Trang 180-183 - 2009
Mark Lemstra, Johan Mackenbach, Cory Neudorf, Ushasri Nannapaneni
The purpose of this paper was to use a linked dataset to compare health care utilization rates and costs between income groups in Saskatoon, Canada. The Canadian Community Health Survey was linked to hospital, physician and medication data in Saskatoon. Of 3,688 eligible participants, 3,433 agreed to the health survey and data linkage with health records (83.7% overall response). Low-income reside...... hiện toàn bộ