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The Canada Health Act ensures that every person in the country is able to receive the same level of care, regardless of location or...
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jessiekay21
Dec 7, 20205 min read
Full Circle Approach to Health
Earlier in this course, we were asked ‘what is health?’ Elaborating on an antiquated definition from the World Health Organization, the...
jessiekay21
Nov 29, 20203 min read
The Future of Healthcare: Where do paramedics fit?
Managing healthcare needs has been a pressing concern for decades now. We knew as the Baby Boomers started to reach advanced age, the...
jessiekay21
Nov 22, 20203 min read
Adolescent Mental Health Intervention to Prevent Substance Abuse and Poverty in Peel Region
In Mississauga, like many other urban centers, there is a recurrent and intermingled correlation between poverty, mental illness, and...
jessiekay21
Nov 15, 20202 min read
Health Disparity Amongst Canada's Indigenous
Canada’s aboriginal population faces an unnecessary healthcare inequity compared to the non-aboriginal population considering Canadian’s...
jessiekay21
Nov 9, 20203 min read
Chronic Disease Resources: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Paramedicine is designed to address numerous medical emergencies; with the longest treatment we provide being the time it takes to get to...
jessiekay21
Nov 8, 20204 min read
Ecological Model for Fall Prevention Amongst Seniors
As a paramedic, I am often the first on the scene when someone gets injured. For the elderly population, falls are particularly...
jessiekay21
Oct 25, 20201 min read
Implementing Socio-ecological Model for Prevention of Childhood Obesity in Peel Region
As mentioned in a previous blog, the socio-ecological model is beneficial at identifying and implementing health behaviour changes at...
jessiekay21
Oct 25, 20204 min read
Socio-Ecological Models of Health
The premise behind any socio-ecological model is that there are multiple complex layers that influence our health, and all models follow...
jessiekay21
Oct 23, 20201 min read
What is health?
As individuals, we think we know what it means to be healthy. If you eat salads and run, you must be healthy, right? Well it's not that...
jessiekay21
Oct 20, 20202 min read
Social Determinants of Health
Social determinants of health are demographics we fall into that have direct and indirect affect on our health, and ability to access...
jessiekay21
Oct 12, 20201 min read
The 'sick' healthcare system
I personally love using infographics to convey health information. They're visually appealing, they get the point across, and they...
jessiekay21
Oct 7, 20201 min read
Learning to "read" health
You can’t seek to broadly define health until you address the idea of health literacy. Just like with languages, a person who doesn’t...
jessiekay21
Oct 5, 20201 min read
My best, and worst, call so far...
One of the worst things about being a paramedics isn't necessarily what you think it might be. Though we see some horrific things, we've...
jessiekay21
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Professionalism
Health care providers must exude professionalism because we are dealing with a vulnerable population. You trust doctors, nurses, surgeons...
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