February 2016 · Issue 163
In this issue:
- Spotlight on KT Methods and Tools webinar
- Upcoming webinars from HealthEvidence.org
- NCCAH Webinar Notification
Spotlight on KT Methods and Tools webinar
March 9, 2016 Feature: Contextualizing Guidance Workbook
March 9, 2016
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (EST)
Looking for a tool to apply recommendations from a guidance document to your context?
Have you identified a health system issue or problem? Do you need to apply recommendations from a guidance document to address the issue/problem in your local context? Do you need to consider factors from the broader health system and political system in determining policy recommendations and decisions? The Contextualizing Guidance Workbook can help!
How can the Contextualizing Guidance Workbook help you?
Developed in concert with the World Health Organization, this tool is appropriate for use in any public health program area. The Contextualizing Guidance Workbook outlines how to contextualize policy recommendations from research evidence for the development of local policy recommendations and decisions. The tool includes:
- Overview of the steps for contextualizing health systems guidance
- Examples of how the steps can be applied
- Worksheets for applying the steps
To read a summary of this tool developed by NCCMT, click here:
Join us to learn more!
To register for the webinar, click here: http://ow.ly/Y87eO
Advisor on Tap:
Elizabeth Alvarez MD, MPH, CCFP, ABFM, PhD(c)
Family Medicine
Public Health, Administration
Health Policy, Political Studies
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar
Upcoming webinars from HealthEvidence.org
Exercise programs for people with dementia: What's the evidence?
February 16, 2016
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (EST)
Join Dorothy Forbes, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, for an overview of findings from her latest Cochrane review examining the effectiveness of exercise programs for people with dementia:
Forbes, D., Forbes, S. C., Blake, C. M., Thiessen, E. J., & Forbes, S. (2015). Exercise programs for people with dementia. http://www.healthevidence.org/view-article.aspx?a=23982 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015(4), CD006489.
Click here to register: http://ow.ly/X08Cv
NCCAH Webinar Notification
Cultural Safety for Indigenous Peoples: A Determinant of Health
February 17, 2016
10:00 am (PST)
Racism and prejudice towards Indigenous peoples is a determinant of Indigenous peoples' health and well-being (or lack thereof). While cultural competencies and cultural safety courses are taking hold as 'best practices' across many jurisdictions, this seminar lecture presents more overtly the idea that racism remains a significant barrier to optimal health care relationship, and thus optimal health, still faced by Indigenous peoples.
The presentation will explore topics ranging from the fact that many Indigenous geographies are outcomes of racialized constructions about Indigenous peoples, that now form physical barriers to accessing health, through to ideas that imbedded stereotypes about Indigenous people continue to 'colour' ways health care professionals interact with Indigenous peoples, as patients, community members, or families and advocates.
The presentation will draw on multi-media ways that Indigenous people have expressed their realities of experiencing racism as a determinant of health and will also discuss ways that healthcare professionals might engage with the arts and humanities in order to delve more deeply and reflexively into personal orientations to Indigenous peoples and communities.
At the end of this webinar, participants will:
- Understand historic and contemporary ways that Indigenous peoples are constructed as 'othered' subjects;
- Have new lenses through which to understand health-based interactions with Indigenous peoples;
- Understand means of undertaking self-reflection to further and deepen personal thoughts about racism and Indigenous peoples.
