Western Public Health Casebook 2019
2019
This online book is the fourth annual collection of 14 cases written by students in the MPH program of the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health at Western University, Canada. The cases touch on diverse topics in public health, including health equity for indigenous peoples, elder abuse in Toronto’s Arab community, supporting students with learning disabilities, combatting the opioid crisis, and more.
The introductory chapter was written by Dr. Michel Deilgat who has acted as the preceptor for the Master of Public Health (MPH) graduate students from Western University. Dr. Deilgat writes about his experiences in public health, his role as the preceptor, and the importance of graduate students becoming comfortable with situations outside of their respective comfort zone. Each case includes guidance for instructors, including learning objectives and discussion questions. The cases (also available for individual download) may be freely copied and used for educational purposes by an accredited educational institution.
Explore the individual cases:
- Case 1: Vanishing Volunteers: The Use of Implementation Research to Improve Support for Community Drug Distributors in Cote d'Ivoire
- Case 2: Hurricanes and Health: A Systems Thinking Approach to Understanding Complexity and Context
- Case 3: The Missing Four Million: Working to Increase the Case Finding Rate for People with TB
- Case 4: Combatting the Opioid Crisis: Expanding Naloxone Kit Distribution to Niagara Health Emergency Departments
- Case 5: Active Schools: A Method to Combat Sedentary Behaviour?
- Case 6: AQCESS: Access to Quality Care through Extending and Strengthening Health Systems
- Case 7: Population Health Surveillance in Finland: Threats to Historically Dependable Surveillance Methodology
- Case 8: Reaching the Hard-to-Reach: Conducting Research on Elder Abuse in Toronto's Arab Community
- Case 9: Achieving Health Equity in Ontario: Increasing Capacity for Relationship Building with Indigenous Communities
- Case 10: Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities: Reducing Secondary School Non-Completion and its Associated Health Disparities
- Case 11: Crypto Climate Creep: The Movement of Tropical Infectious Disease to the Arctic
- Case 12: Policy Window - When Lyme is in the Limelight
- Case 13: Sustainable mHealth Innovations - Repurposing the Collective Comfort Pilot Project
- Case 14: Development of an Electronic Health Record Strategy at the Glenburn Public Health Unit
Western Public Health Casebook 2019
Source:
Sinnald S.L., McKinley G, eds. Western Public Health Casebook 2019. Public Health Casebook Publishing 2019. https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/publichealth/cases/casebook_2019.html.