Publications by authors named "Dianne Lalonde"
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- The study focuses on improving health equity by using a concept called intersectionality, which looks at how different social factors like race and gender work together in people's lives.
- A team of experts created and tested tools to make sure intersectionality is considered in health knowledge translation, which is how health information is shared and used.
- After testing the tools with users, they made them shorter and easier to understand, resulting in a final toolkit with six helpful documents.
Women face extraordinary difficulty in seeking sterilization as physicians routinely deny them the procedure. Physicians defend such denials by citing the possibility of future regret, a well-studied phenomenon in women's sterilization literature. Regret is, however, a problematic emotion upon which to deny reproductive freedom as regret is neither satisfactorily defined and measured, nor is it centered in analogous cases regarding men's decision to undergo sterilization or the decision of women to undergo fertility treatment.
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