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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...
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Nov 22, 20203 min read
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Health Disparity Amongst Canada's Indigenous
Canada’s aboriginal population faces an unnecessary healthcare inequity compared to the non-aboriginal population considering Canadian’s...
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Nov 15, 20202 min read
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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...
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Nov 9, 20203 min read
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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...
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Nov 8, 20204 min read
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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...
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Oct 25, 20201 min read
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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...
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Oct 25, 20204 min read
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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...
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Oct 20, 20202 min read
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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...
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Oct 7, 20201 min read
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