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Health Information Science Theses and Dissertations

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Health Information Science, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Virtual Care Evaluation Methods and Ontario Privacy Policy , Sandeep Dhaliwal

Closing the Know-Do Gap in Global Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Scoping Review of Knowledge Translation Practices in Global Health Research Partnerships. , Wale Fadare

Knowledge Mobilization Strategies for Intimate Partner Violence Research in Canada: A Mixed Methods Study , Yetunde Ogunpitan

Frameworks that guide race and ethnicity data collection practices in health settings: A scoping review. , Oluwabambi Tinuoye

Health Advice from Instagram Influencers on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): Their Strategies to Establish and Manipulate Credibility , Vanessa R. Trocchi

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Sex and Gender Differences in Arthritis Health Information , Tania Al-jilawi

Regulation of Health AI Chatbots in Ontario , Mingi Chu

Understanding the information needs of clients and caregivers regarding early psychosis: A conventional content analysis , Tanvin K. Juneja

How We Debrief: An Interpretive Description of Social Service Community Workers' Experiences , Andrea C. Krywucky

The News Media's (Re)framing of Intimate Partner Violence During the Covid-19 Pandemic and its Implications for Policy Development in Canada: A Critical Content Analysis , Najibullah Naeemzadah

Exploring Screen and Social Media Use Among Young Adults With Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms , Elise Purdy

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Observations of positive mental health indicators in undergraduates using specialized mobile apps during the COVID-19 pandemic , Christopher Brogly

Organizational Implementation of Trauma and Violence Informed Care , Tanaz Javan

Implementing Health Impact Assessment as a Required Component of Government Policymaking: A Multi-Level Exploration of the Determinants of Healthy Public Policy , Stephanie A. Simpson

The Hepatic Happening: Confronting Waitlist Death in Liver Transplantation , Anita M. Slominska

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Improving Developing Countries’ Health Information Systems Capacity for Infectious Disease Pandemic Responses: A Case Study of the Ebola Virus Disease and the Coronavirus Disease Pandemics , Uche Ikenyei

Examining public health risk communication via social media by provincial and local health authorities in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic , Marc Resendes

Exploring Variations in the Implementation of a Health Systems Level Policy to Improve Maternal and Child Health , David R. Walugembe

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Fostering a Trauma- and Violence-Informed Community: Developing Strategies to Inform Public Education , Jessica M. Carswell

The enactment of patient education for complex inpatients over the course of a stay in an interprofessional internal medicine inpatient unit , Talia Di Marco

Context-specific challenges, opportunities, and ethics of drones for healthcare delivery in the eyes of program managers and field staff: a multi-site qualitative study , Vyshnave Jeyabalan

Analyzing the Communication Methods of Crisis Pregnancy Centres: A Conventional Content Analysis , Alexandra H. Murdoch

Trends and Factors Associated with Suicide Deaths in Older Adults , Eada Novilla-Surette

Regional Integration: Physician Perceptions on Electronic Medical Record Use and Impact in South West Ontario , Sadiq Raji

Evaluating the Process of Involving Affected Community Members in Service Delivery and Design: A Deliberative Dialogue Case Study , Tiffany N. Scurr

Ongoing Information and Support Needs of Parents of Children with Epilepsy , Mary C. Secco

Realist Evaluation of Health Equity Indicators for Local Public Health Agencies , Shamiram Zendo

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Understanding the Development of a Logic Model in a Multi-Agency Resource Centre , Alexandra M. Boston

Working with Youth as Stakeholders in Mental Health System Transformation: An Institutional Ethnography of a Service Organization in ACCESS Open Minds , Eugenia Canas

Post-Secondary Students’ Perceptions of Mental Health Messages Conveyed by Video Storytelling and Informational Approaches , Hung Quang Huynh

Exploring Healthcare Consumer Involvement in Clinical Practice Guideline Development , Adam Jordan

Understanding the Nursing Practices and Perspectives of Premedication and Transfusion Reaction Reporting: A Qualitative Description Study , Wenxin Miao

Health Policy and Social Change: Women’s Advocacy Groups and Narrative Mobilization , Jill Moffatt

Easier and faster is not always better: Grounded theory of a large-scale, system transformation on the clinical work of emergency nurses and physicians , Elaine Zibrowski

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Exploring Quality Improvement for Diabetes Care: A Multiple Case Study of Primary Care Teams in First Nations Communities in Canada , Meghan Fournie

Normalizing Masculinity: Explaining Processes, Factors, and Contexts That Influence How Rural Male Farmers Seek Health Information in Southwest Ontario , Bradley C. Hiebert

A Foucauldian Genealogical Analysis of Healthy Eating Education Materials in Ontario 1942-2015 , Janet N. Loughheed

Supporting dynamic and distributed decision making in acute care environments: Insights from a cognitive ethnography , Anthony Naimi

Investigating the Use of M-Health for Learning and Clinical Training by Medical Students in Ghana , Abdul M. Sulley

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Living with COPD through the eyes of veterans and their spouses residing in Ontario , Erisa Deda

Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Analyses of Policy Stakeholders and Supreme Court of Canada Interveners , Tom T. Eldik

Communities of Practice as a Knowledge Translation and Exchange Strategy: A Qualitative Secondary Ethnographic Analysis , Qudsia Shaheen

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Development and Implementation of the Off-Premise Outlet Density Expansion Initiative within Ontario's New Beer Framework: A Case Study , Stephanie A. Simpson

Visualizing and Interacting With Social Determinants of Health , Moutasem Zakkar

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Evidence-Informed Advocacy: Non-Profit Organizations Use of Evidence for Policy Influence in Public Health - A Case Study of Wash Org Uganda , Carolyne Esther Nabalema

Muslim Leaders’ Understandings of Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Depression in Immigrant Women and Those Found in Consumer Health Materials: A Discourse Analysis , Selma Tobah