Browsing by Subject "healthcare"
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Examining The Impact of New Public Management on Military Healthcare in Canada
(2024-09-26)The Canadian Armed Forces are responsible for the provision of healthcare to military personnel in Canada. They have enacted multiple transformation initiatives with the objective to improve the efficiency and effectiveness ... -
Forecasting Adult Weight Status Trends in Canada with Longitudinal Population-based Data
(2015-04-01)The prevalence of obesity in Canada and other Western countries has increased dramatically over the last 30 years. This project modelled future prevalence of weight status trends under a Markov framework by estimating ... -
Measuring Emergency Care Network Population Coverage Using Location-Allocation Models and Geographic Information Systems
(2017-08-31)The objective of this thesis is to measure how the Nova Scotia Emergency Care Network, consisting of Emergency Departments (EDs) and Collaborative Emergency Centres (CECs), covers the population, and provide a tool to ... -
Mixing Scheduled Patients with Walk-In Patients at Collaborative Emergency Centres
(2017-12-15)The Collaborative Emergency Centre (CEC) care model was initiated by the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness in 2010. The CEC model of care appears to be a promising way to reorganize and improve emergency care ... -
Snacking made simple? Exploring the policy and organizational practices of continuous quality improvement for health promotion in healthcare
(2024-07-05)The goal of this dissertation is to advance the understanding of healthcare continuous quality improvement (CQI) practices for health promotion at policy and organizational levels. This qualitative study (phenomenology) ...