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 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
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
Exploring Variations in the Implementation of a Health Systems Level Policy to Improve Maternal and Child Health, David R. Walugembe
Theses/Dissertations from 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
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
Understanding the Development of a Logic Model in a Multi-Agency Resource Centre, Alexandra M. Boston
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
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
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
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
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
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Clinic Narrative: A Multiple Case Study of Integrated Knowledge Translation and Equity-Oriented Primary Health Care, Christine A. Garinger
Perceptions about Equity in Public Health: A comparison between frontline staff and informing policy in Ontario, Katherine E. Rizzi
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Exploring accuracy in journalism stories reporting on neuroscience research findings: A comparative case study, Andrea M. Campbell-Davison