The advocacy process in Canadian community health nursing: A collaborative ethnography.

Aims: To shed light on the process of advocacy in the context of community health nursing, through a methodology inspired by the epistemologies of the South.

Design: We conducted a collaborative ethnography in a community health centre in Canada.

Methods: de Sousa Santos' epistemologies of the South, a typology of advocacy and main themes from historic research informed the methodology.

Travail de des travailleuses de la santé en situation de pandémie de COVID-19 : quel engagement de la part des autorités gouvernementales?

La COVID-19 a pressé les gouvernements à intervenir à l'aide de données partielles sur l'efficacité des moyens. Les femmes sont particulièrement touchées car elles sont plus nombreuses à s'occuper des autres. Cette étude a pour but de comprendre l'influence des décisions politiques sur les conditions de vie et de travail des travailleuses de la santé.

Travailler auprès des familles indigentes : les gardes-malades catholiques à l'avant-garde de la santé communautaire au Canada (1934-1959).

Several articles in the and the refer to the personalist philosophy. In this article, we posit that this philosophy influenced the "social sense" promoted by the Church among nurses from 1934 to 1959 and that it enabled the transfer from a charitable model to one challenging the social order. We present the as agents of resistance to a science perceived as being devoid of morality, in the face of a growing administrative technocracy seen as detrimental to human beings' living conditions.

"Don't smoke in public, you look like trash": An exploratory study about women's experiences of smoking-related stigmatisation and the connection to neighbourhood-level deprivation.

In this exploratory qualitative study we used Goffman's theory of stigmatisation to examine how women experience smoking-related stigma in relation to neighbourhood-level deprivation. From an existing cohort, we recruited fifteen women who smoked. We found differences in the women's experiences and abilities to negotiate and avoid a stigmatised smoking identity based on neighbourhood-level deprivation.

Young adults' experiences of neighbourhood smoking-related norms and practices: A qualitative study exploring place-based social inequalities in smoking.

In this qualitative exploratory study we asked how smoking among young adults relates to the local neighbourhood context to better understand place-based social inequalities in smoking. We used data collected through focus groups with young adults from four economically diverse neighbourhoods in Montreal, Canada. Using the collective lifestyles framework to guide data analysis, we examined within and between neighbourhood social norms, practices, and agency.