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-Thunder Bay, ON

A Summary of What I Have Learned: My Experience with MHST601
This blog will summarize my experience of the MHST601 course through Athabasca University. Given the title: ‘Foundations of Health...

What's Stalling Electronic Health Records?
Electronic Health Records (EHR) represent a rapidly developing branch of technology across Canada and around the globe that promises to...

Vulnerability of Homelessness
Vulnerable populations are classified as such due to circumstances or prejudices that stack the deck against their success in relation to...

MHST601 Assignment #2: Multilevel Obesity Model
Modern society has found ways to combat the plight of infectious agents that once posed the greatest threat to human life (Cutler,...

Tackling Obesity Across Multiple Levels
Complex problems require equally complex solutions. Modern society has found ways to combat the plight of infectious agents that once...

Which Has Greater Healing Power: Social Determinants or Healthcare?
Determinants of health encompass the factors that contribute to the pattern of health for groups or individuals within a population....

Health: State vs Ability to Adapt
Defining the term ‘health’ seems to boil down to two general camps. One, in the spirit of the World Health Organization’s 1948...

Protecting the Public and the Professional: Can One Association do Both?
A decade long tenure as a Medical Radiation Technologist in Ontario dictates that I am familiar with the legislation and standards...

Less is More: How the Canada Health Act Might be Modernized
A burden on the struggling Canadian healthcare system that affects me as a Molecular Imaging Technologist is the over-utilization of...

Reflections on Professionalism Regarding Social Media
When asked to assess my social media habits, my first instinct was, ‘they’re fine’. I maintain a Facebook account for communicating with...


