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Developmental Neurosciences
& Child Health
Population & Community Based Research
This unit comprises a diverse team of researchers who are involved in population-based studies, particularly in areas of prevention and health promotion.
Research programs and interests include:
- Diagnostic, prevention, and intervention in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Program evaluation and community-based participatory research
- Evidence-based practice as it applies to health-related quality of life
- Maternity care: Changing attitudes of obstetricians, family physicians, nurses, midwives, doulas and the women they serve toward central issues in maternity care; and the role of maternity care in sustainable community development
- Integrative approaches in understanding determinants of behavioural and environmental change from an ecological perspective
- Innovative models of care and service organizations for children and youth with disabilities and other complex chronic health conditions
- Study of evidence-based practice in the care of children with developmental conditions and their outcomes
- The impact of chronic disease on the quality of life of children and youth
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More details below.
Diagnostic, prevention, and intervention in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Sterling Clarren
- Focused diagnostic criteria using Canadian normative data
- Improved methods for primary prevention
- Development of interventive services for adolescence and adults
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Program evaluation and community-based participatory research
Anne George
- Focus of health issues during pregnancy, including prevention of alcohol and tobacco use
- New Canadian Children and Youth Study (NCCYS): health and well-being of children whose families are immigrants and refugees to Canada
- Working to improve community-based research through greater access to ethics review
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Evidence-based practice as it applies to health-related quality of life
Anne Klassen
- Developing, validating, and using patient-assessed health instruments to measure health outcomes in clinical and population-based studies
- Caregiver health and well-being
- Systematic reviews
- Children & youth disability in society
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Changing attitudes of obstetricians, family physicians, nurses, midwives, doulas and the women they serve toward central issues in maternity care; the role of maternity care in sustainable community development
Michael Klein
- How rapidly changing birth attitudes contribute to steeply rising intervention rates in maternity care
- Link between maternity care in rural and remote communities and the well-being or sustainability of the community itself
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Integrative approaches in understanding determinants of behavioural and environmental change from an ecological perspective
Louise Mâsse
- Determinants of behaviour change as it relates to physical activity and nutrition behaviours
- Developing a framework evaluating the impact of policies on children's physical activity and nutritional behaviours in the school environment
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Innovative models of care and service organizations for children and youth with disabilities and other complex chronic health conditions
Anton Miller
- Examination of data on how stimulant medications are prescribed and used with children in the general population
- Survey studies of family physicians and pediatricians on issues regarding care of children and youth with behavioural and emotional problems and chronic issues
- Study of parents' experiences and perceptions of health care and continuity of care for their children with chronic health problems and disabilities
- Children & Youth Disability in Society – a new program in collaboration with Dr. Maureen O'Donnell
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Study of evidence-based practice in the care of children with developmental conditions and their outcomes
Maureen O'Donnell
- Study of health systems and services for children with developmental disabilities
- Pain in children with developmental disabilities
- Adolescent motor development study and interventions affecting motor development
- Caring for caregivers of children with cerebral palsy: caregiver health and well-being
- Children & Youth Disability in Society – a new program in collaboration with Dr. Anton Miller
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The impact of chronic disease on the quality of life of children and youth
Lori Tucker
- Health related quality of life (HRQL) of children with chronic illness as rheumatic diseases including juvenile idiopathic arthritis and lupus erythematosus
- Comparison of physical and psychosocial health status of chronic diseases in children and youth (diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, epilepsy, juvenile arthritis, and cystic fibrosis) to determine impact on HRQL
- Pathways to pediatric subspecialty care for children with chronic illness in British Columbia – study of barriers to appropriate referral, diagnosis, and treatment, with an initial pilot project focused on pediatric rheumatic diseases
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Last updated:
06/28/2010
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