Publications by authors named "Adrian Foster"
Background: Understanding what promotes or hinders a community's capacity to serve the priorities of its residents is essential for the alignment of citizen needs and governance. Participatory approaches that engage community residents on the topic of community wellbeing are useful methods for defining outcomes that reflect a community's goals and priorities. Using qualitative focus group methods, the aim of this study was to outline bottom-up definitions of community wellbeing from a diverse pool of community residents in Ontario, Canada.
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- - Laboratory animal professionals (LAP) across Europe, China, and Japan experience compassion fatigue (CF), with over half of respondents from the EU (52%) and China (56%) reporting it, while only 32% from Japan felt the same.
- - Factors contributing to CF include staffing levels, workplace relationships, and the availability of supportive programs, which many respondents felt were lacking at their jobs.
- - Effective coping strategies identified include talking to someone, physical activity, and self-care; however, less than 30% reported having access to helpful support programs in their workplaces.
Background: Carcinogenic risks of internal exposures to alpha-emitters (except radon) are poorly understood. Since exposure to alpha particles-particularly through inhalation-occurs in a range of settings, understanding consequent risks is a public health priority. We aimed to quantify dose-response relationships between lung dose from alpha-emitters and lung cancer in nuclear workers.
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