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Title Gender-Pay Inequality and Organizational Culture: A Multi-Organizational Analysis

Excerpt According to sociologists, more female-concentrated occupations pay less mainly because societal culture devalues work associated with women. But less clear is how much the cultural context of the work organization fosters or suppresses this devaluation. This question is vital because pay and work are not formally linked at the occupation level, but at job level […]

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SDGs Gender EqualityReduced Inequalities

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Title Estimating the Direct Lifetime Health Care Costs of Patients with Schizophrenia in an Ontario Tertiary Care Centre

Excerpt The direct lifetime health care cost of schizophrenia was estimated in patients treated at an Ontario tertiary care institution. Using methods related to incidence- based cost-of-illness studies, an estimate of lifetime costs were estimated using data from the largest mental health institution in Canada. Inpatient, outpatient and emer- gency visit information were obtained between fiscal […]

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Author Greiss, David Edmond

Advisor Papadimitropoulos, Manny

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Title Identifying Dietary Fibre and Protein Intakes and their Food Sources in a Pre-dialysis Adult Population

Excerpt Background: Higher fibre intakes are associated with decreased chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. However, knowledge is limited on the fibre intakes and dietary meal patterns in pre-dialysis. Objective: To describe the intakes of fibre and protein, and their food sources, in pre-dialysis patients and compare intakes to a healthy population. […]

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Author Janes, Sabrina

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingZero Hunger

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Departments Nutritional Sciences

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Keywords food, health

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Title Contesting Migrant Labour: A Politics of Precarity on the Thai-Myanmar Border

Excerpt The global proliferation of export processing zones, linking migrant labour to international markets and global supply chains, has established these sites as critical components of contemporary globalised capitalism. As regulatory enclaves of industrial production, export processing zones are marked by forms of population administration organised around the optimisation of low-waged, flexible labour. This dissertation is […]

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Author Campbell, Stephen Douglas

Advisor Li, Tania

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructureResponsible Consumption and Production

Types Doctoral Thesis

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Departments Anthropology

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Keywords industr, labour. Employment, production, wage

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Title Life Experiences and Patterns of Distress in Chinese-Canadian Women with a History of Suicidal Behaviour

Excerpt Recent studies have highlighted higher rates of suicidal ideation and behaviour and associated themes of gender role stress in Chinese women residing in North America (Chung, 2004). Through qualitative interviewing and analysis, this study explores the experiences, stressors and beliefs of Chinese-born women living in Canada with a history of suicidal behaviour. They describe restricted […]

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Author Zaheer, Juveria

Advisor Links, Paul S

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SDGs Gender EqualityQuality Education

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Departments Medical Science

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Title Meds on the Menu: The Covert Administration of Psychotropic Medication to Adult Inpatients Determined to be Decisionally-Incapable in Ontario’s Psychiatric Settings

Excerpt Drawing on the fields of human rights and public health, this research explores the covert administration of medication: the concealment of medication in food or drink so that it will be consumed undetected. Adopting a rights-based approach, it explores multiple understandings of the impact of the practice on inpatients’ rights-experiences. Relying on critical approaches, it […]

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Author Sheldon, C. Tess

Advisor Ferris, Lorraine

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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Dalla Lana School of Public Health

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Title Prodigals in Love: Narrating Gay Identity and Collectivity on the Early Internet in China

Excerpt This dissertation concerns itself with the eruption of a large number of gay narratives on the Chinese internet in its first decade. There are two central arguments. First, the composing and sharing of narratives online played the role of a social movement that led to the formation of gay identity and collectivity in a society […]

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Author Pan, Gang

Advisor Guisso, Richard

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Departments East Asian Studies

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Title Agenda Setting in Global Policy Development: The Case of the International Labour Organization Decent Work Agenda

Excerpt Structural inequality, employment insecurity, and unhealthy working conditions continue to rise. Confronted by these challenges, global institutions such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) are providing policy advice to protect and promote the health and well-being of workers. This dissertation focuses on agenda setting – how health and social problems get and stay on policy […]

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Author Di Ruggiero, Erica

Advisor Cohen, Joanna E.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Reduced Inequalities

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Title Towards the Inclusion of Trans* Identities: Making Space and Creating Change in Postsecondary Institutions

Excerpt This thesis examines the current climate of colleges and universities for trans* students in Canada. In accordance with poststructural theory, it is argued that meaning is constructed and maintained within the postsecondary social structure. An assessment of the language employed in administrative procedure, student documentation, and discrimination policies within thirteen Canadian institutions will show how […]

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Author Thorpe-Gosley, Amelia

Advisor Bialystok, Lauren

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Departments Social Justice Education

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Title Maternal and Infant Variables Associated with Critical Volumes of Breastmilk in Very Low Birth Weight Infants During the First Month of Postnatal Life

Excerpt This study investigated the variables associated with the initiation, duration and exclusivity of breastmilk feeding in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Maternal and infant correlates associated with the provision of a critical dose, ¡Ý50 ml/kg/d, of mother¡¯s own milk in the first 28 days of life was also determined. Data including socio-demographic and health […]

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Author Brennan-Donnan, Joan Elizabeth

Advisor O'Connor, Deborah

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Departments Nutritional Sciences

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