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Annotation: This thesis presents a research study examining birthing people's experiences with the health care system during prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. The study used patient journey mapping, surveys, and interviews to capture experiences at multiple time points. Participants included six prenatal and four postpartum patients, with a focus on Black birthing people. Key findings revealed challenges with insurance access, getting questions answered between appointments, and a lack of racial concordance with health care workers. Participants also reported feeling unprepared for unexpected events, accepting care that did not align with their needs, and inconsistent mental health and intimate partner violence screenings. The thesis discusses implications for improving maternal care, such as offering low-cost services, implementing telehealth, ensuring universal screenings, and increasing workforce diversity.

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Keywords: Access to care, Barriers, Blacks, Childbirth, Health care systems, Interviews, Perinatal care, Postpartum care, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Surveys, Toronto Canada

Annotation: This August 4, 2022 recording features a comprehensive panel discussion on telehealth applications within Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs, showcasing diverse perspectives from across North America. Bill Campbell presents on Remote Infant Auditory Brainstem Response Assessment in Ontario, highlighting improved service access despite technological challenges, while Todd Houston discusses findings from a Journal of EHDI monograph emphasizing telehealth benefits and the need for specialized training. Arlene Stredler Brown shares Colorado research on telehealth equity considerations, revealing provider and family feedback indicating a need for enhanced training in family-centered early intervention approaches. Alex Meibos provides technical insights on audiology telehealth platforms, noting that many hearing aid manufacturers offer online solutions adaptable for early intervention. Pamela Dawson contributes telehealth resource information specific to the Northeast region, and Julie Purdy rounds out the presentation with California survey data on implementing Oticon hearing aid online platforms and affordable home otoscopy options using smartphone applications, collectively demonstrating how telehealth is transforming accessibility and delivery of pediatric audiology services nationwide.

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Keywords: Telemedicine, Audiology, Deafness, Hearing tests, Hearing screening, Infant health, Children's health, Program evaluation, Canada, Ohio, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, California

Annotation: This strategic plan describes research priorities and strategic directions to build capacity and foster collaboration to address the pillars of research: biomedical, clinical, health systems and services, and the social, cultural and environmental factors that affect the health of populations. It is divided into three research investment themes: healthy developmental trajectories; healthy reproduction, pregnancy, childhood, and youth; and healthy public policy and systems integration. An appendix describes their strategic planning strategy. The document is available in English and French.

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Keywords: Canada, Health care systems, Health policy, International health, Research

Annotation: This paper examines the impact of an expansion of Canada's paid maternity leave programs (expanding the duration of job-protected, partially compensated maternity/parental leave from approximately 6 months to a full year) on measures of children's cognitive and behavioral development at ages 4 and 5. The paper discusses previous literature on the topic, the reform and its expected impact, data, the empirical framework, differences in observable inputs across birth cohorts at ages 1 through 4, and estimates of the impact of the change on developmental outcomes at ages 4 and 5.

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Keywords: Behavioral development, Canada, Child development, Cognitive development, Costs, International health, Legislation, Parental leave, Public policy, Research, Working parents

Annotation: This report summarizes existing evidence-based reviews of the clinical and economic outcomes of population-based smoking cessation strategies in the providence of Ontario, Canada. The report, which was presented to the Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee, provides a clinical and economic summary of the evidence surrounding nine population-based strategies for smoking cessation: Mass media interventions, telephone counselling, post-secondary smoking cessation programs (colleges/universities), community-wide stop-smoking contests, community interventions, physician advice to quit, nursing interventions for smoking cessation, hospital-based interventions for smoking cessation, and pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation. Included is a detailed description of the evidence-based analysis (including the literature search, outcomes of interest, and the statistical analysis), the results of the analysis, and listings of search strategies, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis used in the report. Thirteen tables summarize data findings.

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Keywords: Canada, Evidence based medicine, Literature reviews, Outcome evaluation, Research reviews, Smoking cessation, Tobacco use

Annotation: This report summarizes a discussion held to assemble a spectrum of knowledge, evidence, and insights about SIDS and safe sleep. The discussion centered on the Back to Sleep brochure and possible revisions to it regarding sleeping position, flat spots on the head, baby bedding, bedsharing, a smoke and drug-free environment, dressing the baby for sleep, and breastfeeding. Appendices include a participant list and chart on key SIDS and safe sleep issues.

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Keywords: Canada, Guidelines, Infant health, SIDS, Sleep, Sleep position

Annotation: This report builds on the publication, Growing Up in North America, Child Well-Being in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, which provides an overview of the status of children within and across the three countries in North America and gives baseline information that policymakers, politicians, and children's advocates can use to make decisions. The present report examines 58 health and safety indicators, which are organized according to the environments that influence children's development and impact their well-being. The report highlights basic indicators such as infant health, death rates, and access to health care services; points to emerging health issues in the three nations such as mental health and nutrition; and examines some particularly challenging issues facing adolescents in North America. Endnotes are included.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Adolescent behavior, Adolescent health, Canada, Child development, Child health, International health, Mental health, Mexico, Nutrition, Public policy, Safety, United States

Annotation: This paper focuses on the efficacy of maternity leave mandates that could help achieve the goals of increasing the incidence and duration of breastfeeding. In particular, the paper looks at maternity leave mandates in Canada. The paper, which includes an abstract, is divided into the following main sections: (1) introduction, (2) previous research on breastfeeding, (3) policy environment, (4) predicted effects, (5) data, (6) empirical approach, (7) results, and (8) conclusions. References are included. Statistical information is presented in tables and figures grouped together at the end of the report.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Canada, Parental leave, Public policy, Research, Working parents

Annotation: This booklet highlights the services and research activities of 9 member countries of SIDS International (and one non-member country, Ireland). Programs listed are (1) Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (CFSID), (2) SIDS and KIDS/National SIDS Council of Australia, (3) Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths-UK (FSID), (4) SIDS Family Association of Japan (SIDSFAJ), (5) Irish Sudden Infant Death Association (ISIDA), (6) Scottish Cot Death Trust, (7) SIDS International (SIDSI), (8) International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA), and (9) the International Society for the Study and Prevention of Infant Death (ISPID). Information is provided for each of the programs including a short description, projects and activities, and contact information. Additional information is provided for other members of SIDS International and other international contacts. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Australia, Canada, International organizations, International programs, Ireland, Japan, Program descriptions, SIDS, Scotland, United Kingdom

Annotation: This book is a collection of nine essays that examine women's health status and health care delivery in different countries and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. The authors are members of the Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners whose primary interest is in feminist approaches to women's health. The book is the result of a four-year collaborative research project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The essays are entitled: A Relational Approach to Autonomy in Health Care; Situating Women in the Politics of Health; The Politics of Health: Geneticization Versus Health Promotion; Contested Bodies, Contested Knowledges: Women, Health, and the Politics of Medicalization; Agency, Diversity, and Constraints: Women and Their Physicians, Canada, 1850-1950; Reflections on the Transfer of "Progress": The Case of Reproduction; Anomalous Women and Political Strategies for Aging Societies; (Re)fashioning Medicine's Response to Wife Abuse; and Reframing Research Involving Humans. Notes are provided at the end of each essay. A list of references and biographies of the authors are included in the book.

Keywords: Africa, Bioethics, Canada, Ethics, Gender discrimination, Health care delivery, Health promotion, Japan, North America, Research, Women's health

Annotation: These conference proceedings from the Canada-USA Forum on Women's Health, Forum, co-hosted by the Canadian and United States governments in August 1996, focus on key women's health issues ranging from environmental health, reproductive health, and violence prevention to research, education, and leadership. Included are recommendations that challenge government and non-government entities to enhance their knowledge and intervention strategies. The conference agenda, workshop summary reports, and list of delegates are also provided.

Keywords: Canada, Collaboration, Conference proceedings, Federal initiatives, International health, United States, Women's health

Annotation: These proceedings stem from a meeting held May 18-20, 1994 which was designed to allow members of the International Collaborative Effort to improve comparability and quality of injury data. Sections address levels and trends in injury mortality and morbidity in selected participating countries, sources of injury related data and special methodological problems, current problems in producing comparable international mortality and morbidity statistics, data needs, linkage issues and coding issues.

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Keywords: Australia, Canada, Clinical coding, Denmark, England, France, Injury surveillance systems, International classification of diseases, International data, Israel, Morbidity, Mortality, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Statistical reference sources, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, United States

Annotation: This book contains essays on issues relating to the reform of the national health care system. They presents various facets that will affect the success of the reform movement. There are four sections which address the following broad topics: the politics of medical care and the constraints they place on reform, the debate over universal health coverage, examples of other health perspectives based on experiences in Canada and Japan, and dilemmas and decisions associated with the various policy choices. Individual essays examine the following subjects, among others: medical care crises and the welfare state, nonprofit organizations and health care, rationing, cutting waste by making rules, competition in medical care, and hype and hyperbole in health reform.

Keywords: Canada, Economic factors, History, International perspectives, Japan, National health care reform, Policy analysis, Policy development

Annotation: This paper provides an analysis of well child care programs operating in other countries. The paper describes the methodology which included a literature review and direct interviews with knowledgeable individuals in Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, England, and the United States. The paper provides an overview of each of the following topics: the number of recommended visits; physical examinations; height and weight monitoring; and screening for vision, hearing screening, and developmental disabilities, and other conditions. The paper discusses the findings, and presents information about well child recommendations in each country in tables in the appendix. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Access to health care, Canada, Child health, Denmark, England, Health promotion, Health supervision, International perspectives, Literature reviews, Netherlands, Policy development, Sweden, United States, Well child care

Annotation: Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that covers both historic and economic contexts, this book characterizes child care in 18 countries on 5 continents. Specific historical roots and the current social contexts of child care are delineated in industrialized as well as in developing countries. Each chapter includes insights from commentators of the particular country being discussed. The editors point out that child care is an integral part of the web of influences and experiences that shape children's development.

Keywords: Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Child care, China, Cultural factors, East Africa, International perspectives, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Annotation: This report, prepared at the request of the House Committee on Government Operations, reviews Canada's universal, publicly funded insurance system. The report describes the policies used in this system, consequences for both health care spending and access, and implications for the United States.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Canada, Health care financing, Health care systems, Health insurance

Keywords: Canada, Health screening, Preschool children

Annotation: The report discusses providing the best reproductive care for Canadians regardless of race or geographic location through a regional system. It discusses the need for planning the delivery of reproductive care, the high risk mother, justification of perinatal intensive care by results, regional organization for reproductive care, transportation, personnel, facilities and equipment, administration, and research functions. The report ends with six appendices on antepartum fetal risk scores; a model of regional organization for reproductive care; the experience of a large urban neonatal referral unit; the costing for a neonatal intensive care unit, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario; a report on a perinatal intensive care unit; and a statement from nurse-midwives.

Keywords: Canada, Costs, High risk mothers, Infant mortality, Maternal health services, Maternal mortality, Neonatal intensive care units, Obstetrical care, Perinatal care, Perinatal mortality, Regional programs

Annotation: This report describes Nutrition Canada's first national survey to determine the nutritional characteristics of residents of Canada's 10 provinces, Indians on reserves and crown lands, and Eskimos living in four settlements in the Territories. The report describes the survey design, response, procedures, and interpretation. It also reports on nutrition problems and priorities.

Keywords: Canada, International health, National surveys, Nutrition surveys

Annotation: This publication, a compilation of laws relating to mother's pensions in the United States, Canada, Denmark, and New Zealand, updates a 1914 publication with the addition of Canadian legislation. A history of mother's pensions legislation, as well as record forms used by various states, is also provided. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

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Keywords: Canada, Child welfare, Denmark, Directories, Family support programs, Legislation, New Zealand, United States, Welfare programs