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Improving physical health and survival of children and youth in Canada
No full textUNICEF recently warned that many children and youth in Canada have poor physical health and are struggling to survive. The challenges of income inequality, social exclusion, and poor food quality drive this problem. Physicians can tackle these challenges and boost children’s physical health and survival by working with impacted communities and advocating for policy change. First, physicians should address income inequality by collaborating with other key groups such as social pediatric hubs, social workers, nurses, and food banks, and by advocating for universal basic income to help support families financially. Second, physicians should tackle social exclusion by identifying and remedying direct and indirect forms of discrimination against underserved populations in the healthcare setting, as well as by improving anti-racism education and policies. Finally, physicians should promote food quality by educating the public about quality food resources and collaborating with governments to hold the private sector accountable for food quality deficits
Exploring Mental Health Literacy in Canada: A Mixed-Method Cross-Sectional Study
Full text linkIntroduction: Mental health literacy (i.e., mental health-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour; MHL) may be a key to reducing the burden of mental illness on the health system and to improving the overall population’s mental health through facilitating upstream mental health promotion. Objectives: The purpose of this mixed-method study is to explore the correlates of MHL in Atlantic Canada and assess the ability of residents to correctly diagnose a disorder, identify potential causes, and propose suitable treatments based on the medical model or a social prescribing model. Methods: A sample of Atlantic Canadians (N = 254) participated in this cross-sectional study, which included vignettes and measures of overall MHL, level of contact with people living with mental illness, and preferred level of social distance from people with mental illness. Results: We found that (a) social connections were more commonly prescribed for generalized anxiety relative to the medical model treatment recommendations, (b) panic disorder was least likely to be correctly identified, (c) general anxiety was disproportionately thought to be caused by external factors, (d) only social distance predicts MHL beyond demographics and level of contact, and (e) household (not individual) conservative orientation negatively predicts MHL. Conclusion: Efforts to improve MHL and thus reduce the burden of mental illness on Atlantic Canadian health systems could be informed by increasing public knowledge of the causes and treatments of generalized anxiety disorder, increasing residents’ ability to recognize disorders beyond depression (e.g., panic disorder), and reducing stigma by fostering comfort for those living near individuals with mental illness
Welcome Letter
No full textWelcome from the Co-Editors-in-Chief
We would like to welcome you to volume 5, issue 1 of the Healthy Populations Journal (HPJ), a special issue on Interprofessional Health Education and Collaborative Practice (IPHECP) sponsored by the Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT) at Dalhousie University. As a student-run, open-access, peer-reviewed journal, this issue brings together IPHEC both in content and in practice where an interprofessional guest editorial board learned about the peer review process during the publishing of this issue. You can read more about the editorial experience in CLT’s blog FOCUS.
Articles in this issue are written from student perspectives and experiences working in interprofessional settings as student healthcare professionals, present original results from interprofessional research and outline review protocols as a common research methodology used to bring together large bodies of knowledge that can inform interprofessional research and practice. Developed in a community based, interprofessional setting, Liepert et al. infographic increases the accessibility of research findings for healthcare providers, frontline shelter workers and community members with diabetes understand and manage symptoms and health impacts. Two commentaries raise awareness about the role of community-based interprofessional teams that also support student training. Ayoub et al. highlight the Halifax Outreach Prevention Education Support (HOPES) clinic, a student-run clinic offering services from 8 different health disciplines to populations who may otherwise not have access to such care. Dunbar Wilson et al. show how community efforts can lead the way for access to diagnoses support for individuals with FASD in rural Newfoundland. This issue presents three review protocols aimed at advancing IPHECP. Valuing IPHECP as a pedagogical tool, Van Dam & Price outline a protocol aimed at exploring the role of IPHECP in training pre-licensure dentistry and dental hygiene students to understand their professional role and identity. The ways in which the presence of an interprofessional healthcare team influences caregivers of pediatric patients to present to an emergency department is an important question that can inform the structure of pediatric healthcare teams in general (Devereaux et al.). McConnell et al. connect a scoping review on evidence-based interventions in kidney transplantation care to principles of IPHECP to assist interprofessional teams in understanding the roles of different professionals. Yusuf et al. engage love letter writing as a post-qualitative framework to evaluate their experiences as PhD candidates/teaching assistants in an asynchronous, online interprofessional course on allyship.
HPJ would not be possible without support from the Healthy Populations Institute and the guidance from the HPJ Editorial Board Members. Particular to this issue, funding through an Anne Marie Ryan Teaching & Learning Enhancement Grant from the CLT. In addition to base issue costs, this grant permitted HPJ to offer guest editors a modest honorarium for their work. A special thank you to the leadership of Dr. Sara Kirk and Dr. Diane MacKenzie, OT Reg. (NS).
We truly hope you enjoy reading volume 5, issue 1.
ivan beck and Joshua Yusu
Debating Motherhood in Clément Vautel\u27s Madame ne veut pas d\u27enfant (1924)
No full textVirtually neglected by literary scholars thus far, Clément Vautel’s Madame ne veut pas d’enfant (1924) is part of a subgroup of Belle Époque novels, including Jane de La Vaudère’s Les Demi-Sexes (1897), exploring the controversial subject of women’s reproductive freedom. The bulk of the Vautel’s characters fall into one of two groups: those who embrace the slogan “Croissez et multipliez” in the name of repopulating France and those who support a woman’s right to make her own decisions about having children. These debates replicate the real-life ones going on between pro-natalists and neo-Malthusians, the latter led by Paul Robin, whose Ligue pour la régénération humaine hosted lectures on birth control, sold contraceptives, distributed brochures, and supported abortion rights. The fact that Motherhood has become a significant topic of scholarly inquiry over the past decade and a half is all the more reason to investigate what Vautel has to say.
Jusqu’ici négligé par presque tous les critiques littéraires, Madame ne veut pas d’enfant (1924) de Clément Vautel fait partie d’un sous-genre de romans de la Belle Époque qui comprend Les Demi-Sexes (1897) de Jane de la Vaudère, une oeuvre qui explore le sujet controversé des droits reproductifs des femmes. La majeure partie des personnages de Vautel appartient à l’un des deux groupes : les protagonistes qui se conforment au slogan “Croissez et multipliez” au nom du repeuplement de la France, et ceux/celles qui soutiennent le droit des femmes de décider d’avoir ou non des enfants. Ces débats reproduisent ceux ayant lieu dans la vie réelle entre les pro-natalistes et néo-malthusiens, ces derniers menés par Paul Robin, dont l’organisation Ligue pour la régénération humaine a animé des conférences sur la contraception, vendu des moyens de contraception, distribué des brochures, et soutenu le droit à l’avortement. Le fait que la maternité soit devenue une question essentielle au sein de la recherche académique depuis ces quinze dernières années, justifie d’autant plus une étude plus approfondie de ce que Vautel a à dire à ce sujet
Cécile Mainardi\u27s "Sorties": Poetry as Desire and Performance
No full textCécile Mainardi is part of a generation of French poets who have been attempting, in the 1990s and 2000s, to activate their books in new ways—at galleries, art festivals, and performed readings. Though they are inscribed in the lineage of sound poetry and action poetry, these writers remain attached to the book, even if that medium is to be transcended. This article focuses on this tension by reading Mainardi’s poetic work through the lens of its desire to (be) perform(ed). The concept of “sorties,” borrowed from Jean-Marie Gleize (Sorties, 2009), helps explore the ways Mainardi articulates her relationship to poetry: at once a written form, and the expression of a desire to become someone or something else. She invites her readers to wonder what it means to read a poem that never ceases to announce or prefigure its performance: we stay with this tension between the text and its enactment. Mainardi’s poetry seems to involve its readers in a way that both engages their ability to imagine the poem as a performance, and asks them to become the poet’s partner, in a potentially erotic way. By drawing on the links between poetry and performance, this article investigates how poems might exceed the page and relate to their reader.
Cécile Mainardi fait partie d\u27une génération de poète·sses français·es qui ont tenté, dans les années 1990 et 2000, d\u27activer leurs livres à travers de nouveaux protocoles et de nouveaux espaces (galeries d’art, lectures performées, etc.). Bien qu\u27iels s\u27inscrivent dans la lignée de la poésie sonore et de la poésie action, ces artistes restent attaché·es au livre, même si ce support doit être transcendé. Cet article se concentre sur cette tension en lisant l’oeuvre poétique de Mainardi comme signe et trace d’un désir de performance (performer, et être performé·e). Le concept de « sorties », emprunté à Jean-Marie Gleize (Sorties, 2009), permet d’explorer les façons dont Mainardi aborde sa relation à la poésie. Cette dernière invite ses lecteur·ices à s\u27interroger sur des poèmes qui ne cessent d\u27annoncer ou de préfigurer leur performance à venir : on reste dans une tension entre le texte et sa mise en oeuvre. La poésie de Mainardi implique ses lecteur·ices dans l’imagination du poème comme performance, leur demandant de devenir des partenaires de la poétesse, dans un jeu qui parfois tourne à l’érotisme. En s\u27appuyant sur les liens entre poésie et performance, cet article étudie la manière dont un poème peut dépasser la page, et entrer en relation avec ses lecteur·ices
L\u27Histoire enfantômée... au Tribunal de l\u27Impossible
No full textTroisième épisode des quinze téléfilms du Tribunal de l’impossible de Michel Subiela, « La Dernière rose, ou les fantômes de Trianon » (samedi 10 février 1968), fait revivre la rencontre supposée de deux enseignantes anglaises, en visite à Versailles en 1901, avec… Marie-Antoinette : la vie et la mort de cette reine, immédiatement associées à son lieu fétiche, attisent depuis toujours la curiosité populaire. Nous sommes le 10 août 1901 : Eleanor Jourdain et Charlotte Anne Moberly se perdent en cherchant le Petit Trianon et font alors une série de rencontres bizarres – dont la Reine ; au retour elles écrivent Une aventure (1911), qui formalise leur exceptionnelle amitié, intellectuelle et peut-être amoureuse. Rétrovision ou exaltation romanesque ? En somme, la rencontre avec le spectre de Marie-Antoinette aura autorisé, au sens du fantasme, la communion sensible qui unira ces deux femmes toute leur vie durant.
Third episode of the fifteen television films of Michel Subiela\u27s Tribunal de l\u27impossible, "The Last Rose, or the Ghosts of Trianon" (Saturday February 10, 1968), brings to life the supposed meeting of two English teachers, visiting Versailles in 1901, with… Marie-Antoinette: the life and death of this queen, immediately associated with her favorite place, have always aroused popular curiosity. It is August 10, 1901: Eleanor Jourdain and Charlotte Anne Moberly get lost while looking for the Petit Trianon and then have a series of bizarre encounters – including the Queen; on their return they wrote An Adventure (1911), which formalized their exceptional intellectual and perhaps romantic friendship. Retrovision or romantic exaltation? In short, the encounter with the specter of Marie-Antoinette will have authorized, in the sense of fantasy, the sensitive communion which will unite these two women throughout their lives
