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  • Report: Rural Resilience and Community Connections in Health: Outcomes of a Community Workshop

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    LeBlanc, Michelle, Mahling, Alexa, and Peters, Paul A.
    Description:
    Visit the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab website at  https://carleton.ca/determinants
    Abstract:
    Canadians living in rural communities are diverse, with individual communities defined by unique strengths and challenges that impact their health needs. Understanding rural health needs is a complex undertaking, with many challenges pertaining to engagement, research, and policy development. In order to address these challenges, it is imperative to understand the unique characteristics of rural communities as well as to ensure that the voices of rural and remote communities are prioritized in the development and implementation of rural health research programs and policy. Effective community engagement is essential in order to establish rural-normative programs and policies to improve the health of individuals living in rural, remote, and northern communities. This report was informed by a community engagement workshop held in Golden Lake, Ontario in October 2019. Workshop attendees were comprised of residents from communities within the Madawaska Valley, community health care professionals, students and researchers from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and international researchers from Australia, Sweden, and Austria. The themes identified throughout the workshop included community strengths and initiatives that are working well, challenges and concerns faced by the community in the context of health, and suggestions to build on strengths and address challenges to improve the health of residents in the Madawaska Valley.
    Date Created:
    2020-12-10

  • Report: Rural Youth Health in Canada, Sweden and Australia

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    LeBlanc, Michele, Sinclair, Laleah, Peters, Paul A., and Sendanyoye, Claudia
    Abstract:
    The small size coupled with remoteness of rural communities in Canada, Australia, and Sweden introduce challenges in accessing sufficient health services (1-3). The sparse health services in rural areas impose “the tyranny of distance” on rural and remote populations, necessitating lengthy travel times to receive care. Despite the increased challenges rural communities face, a dearth of research on rural health persists, particularly rural youth health (4,5). A broad scoping review was undertaken to identify literature regarding rural youth health in Canada, Australia, and Sweden. The studies were coded according to population focus, health focus, access, and general. The scoping review produced the Rural Youth Health Scoping Review Database, which provides an overview of the available research on rural youth health.
    Date Created:
    2020-07-06

  • FINAL EVALUATION REPORT: Evaluating the Impact of Shepherds of Good Hope’s Women and Gender Diverse Program

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Occhiuto, Katherine, Feder, Zoey, Larose-Hébert, Katharine, McWhinney, Tara, van de Sande, Adje, and Kalmanovitch, Alicia
    Date Created:
    2020-03-28

  • Growth and Upheaval in the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2019

    Resource Type:
    Report
    Creator:
    Winseck, Dwayne
    Abstract:
    This report examines the development of the media economy over the past thirty-five years. Since beginning this project a decade ago, we have focused on analyzing a comprehensive as possible selection of the biggest telecoms, Internet and media industries (based on revenue) in Canada, including: mobile wireless and wireline telecoms; Internet access; cable, satellite & IPTV; broadcast television, specialty and pay television services as well as Internet-based video subscription and download services; radio; newspapers; magazines; music; Internet advertising; social media; operating systems; browsers, etc.
    Date Created:
    2020-11-16