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Title Integrating Patients into Integrated Healthcare: Perspectives from Individuals Coinfected with Tuberculosis and HIV

Excerpt Background: Tuberculosis (TB) and human-immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are intertwined through complex biological and social pathways that affect over one million people worldwide. Mitigation of the co-epidemic is undermined by a failure to integrate TB and HIV healthcare services as a result of critical clinical, operational and social challenges. The social challenges of TB/HIV coinfection […]

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Title Essays in Internationsl Political Economy

Excerpt This dissertation studies three important questions in international political economy: The long run consequences of social divisions created by historical colonialism, the importance of trade shocks in shifting political power balances and shaping institutional development and the influence that major political powers have over the decisions of smaller nations. I study these three questions empirically […]

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Author Dippel, Christian

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Title The Politics of Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime: The Dogs that Didn’t Bark

Excerpt Decisions to reform pharmaceutical policy often involve trade-offs between competing social and commercial goals. Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), a reform that permits compulsory licensing for the production and export of medicines to developing countries, aimed to reconcile these goals. Since it was passed in 2004, only one order of antiretroviral drugs, enough for […]

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Author Esmail, Laura Caroline

Advisor Kohler, Jillian Clare

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructurePeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Reduced InequalitiesResponsible Consumption and Production

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Departments Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Keywords health, industr, institution, production, trade

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Title Group Processes Supporting the Development of Progressive Discourse in Online Graduate Courses

Excerpt This design-based research study investigates the development of progressive discourse among participants (n=15, n=17, n=20) in three online graduate course contexts. Progressive discourse is a kind of discourse for inquiry in which participants share, question, and revise their ideas to deepen understanding and build knowledge. Although progressive discourse is central to knowledge building pedagogy, it […]

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Author Fujita, Nobuko

Advisor Brett, Clare

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Departments Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

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Keywords innovation

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Title Unseen Powers; Transparency and Conspiracy in a Street Vendor Relocation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Excerpt This dissertation examines how a group of street vendors in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia, experienced a government-organized relocation from Mangkubumi Street to a newly renovated marketplace. In particular, I explore the strategies taken by the leaders of a street vendor organization called Pethikbumi to refuse the relocation and claim their right to the street. Contestations over […]

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Author Gibbings, Sheri Lynn

Advisor Barker, Joshua

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Departments Anthropology

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Keywords rights

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Title Beyond Acculturation: Cultural Constructions of Immigrant Resilience and Belonging in the Canadian Context

Excerpt The psychological literature on immigrants has identified numerous challenges of resettlement. Research on acculturation indicates that adaptive functioning is characterized as a bicultural prospect in which individuals balance their heritage and the dominant culture within the receiving society. This conceptualization of positive adaptation typically relegates culture to a broad-based and static property circumscribed within ethnicity, […]

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Author Goldman, Michael

Advisor Moodley, Roy

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SDGs Quality Education

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Departments Adult Education and Counselling Psychology

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Keywords inclusive

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Title Bridging the Genomics Gap: The role of Large-scale Genotyping Projects in the Developing World and the Importance of Genomic Sovereignty

Excerpt In recent years, there have been several proposals for large-scale human genotyping projects in the developing world. The dissertation presented here explores the motivations, opportunities and challenges of initiating locally led, large-scale genotyping projects documenting human genomic variation in the developing world. I analyze two case studies: the Indian Genome Variation Consortium in India and […]

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Author Hardy, Billie-Jo

Advisor Daar, Abdallah

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingIndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Departments Medical Science

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Title Critical Investigation of the Sierra Leone Conlfict: A Moral Practical Reconstruction of Crisis and Colonization in the Evolution of Society

Excerpt This Sierra Leone Conflict arose from the society’s failure to institutionalize the requisite post-conventional organizing principle for collective will formation and for conflict resolution. In this post-traditional society – one artificially constructed from diverse political and cultural groups, without a shared ethos – only mutual (communicative) understanding can resolve differences and ensure solidarity. A lack […]

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Author Kabba, Munya

Advisor Dei, George Jerry Sefa

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

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Title Greening the City: Exploring Health, Well-being, Green Roofs, and the Perception of Nature in the Workplace

Excerpt This five-paper thesis explores office workers perceptions of green roofs and how this influences their health/well-being in Toronto and Chicago. Paper 1 examines the underlying paradigms and world-views of major research programs that look at the human relationship to nature and health/well-being, showing that despite some convergence between their methods and integration of different paradigms, […]

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Author Loder, Angela

Advisor Relph, Ted ||Wakefield, Sarah

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SDGs Climate ActionGood Health and Well-Being

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Departments Geography

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Title Redefining “Enterprising Selves”:Exploring the “Negotiation” of South Asian Immigrant Women Working as Home-based Enclave Entrepreneurs

Excerpt This study examines the experiences of highly educated South Asian immigrant women working as home-based entrepreneurs within ethnic enclaves in Toronto, Canada. The importance of their work and experiences need to be understood in the context of two processes. On the one hand, there is the neoliberal hegemonic discourse of “enterprising self” that encourages individuals […]

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Author Maitra, Srabani

Advisor Mirchandani, Kiran

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender Equality

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Departments Adult Education and Counselling Psychology

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Keywords gender, labour, women

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