Exploring Cross-Sectoral Implications of the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Framework for Integrating Health Equity Perspectives With the Land-Water-Energy Nexus.

To assess existing evidence and identify gaps in the integrative framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for their potential to advance cross-sectoral perspectives and actions that connect health equity with the land-water-energy nexus in a watershed context. Five bibliographic databases were searched from 2016 to 2021. This yielded an initial 226 publications, which were screened for titles, abstracts, and full texts on DistillerSR; resulting in a final 30 publications that were studied.

Storylines of research on resource extraction and health in Canada: A modified metanarrative synthesis.

Patterns of research on resource extraction's health effects display problematic gaps and underlying assumptions, indicating a need to situate health knowledge production in the context of disciplinary, corporate and neocolonial influences and structures. This paper reports on a modified metanarrative synthesis of 'storylines' of research on resource extraction and health in the Canadian context. Peer-reviewed articles on mining or petroleum extraction and health published between 2000 and 2018 and dealing with Canadian populations or policies (n = 87) were identified through a systematic literature search.

Indigenous Men Adhering to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Navigating Through Culturally Unsafe Spaces While Caring for Their Health.

Indigenous peoples in Canada have endured and continue to experience the impact of colonization by European settlers. The deleterious manifestations of intergenerational historic trauma (HT) are evidenced in the high HIV/AIDS epidemic-related premature mortality rates among Indigenous men, despite the availability of novel highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAARTs). The aims of this study were to explore the impact of historic trauma (HT) on treatment adherence and health promoting practices among Indigenous men living with HIV, and how resilience was both expressed and mediated by survivor status.

Disability management and organizational culture in Australia and Canada.

Background: Organizational culture has received increasing attention in terms of its influence on workplace health and productivity, yet there has been little research on its relationship with employer-based disability programs.

Objective: This study explored the relationship between disability management and organizational culture in Australian and Canadian organizations.

Methods: Thematic analysis was conducted on data from semi-structured interviews with 16 employees, including injured workers, human resource managers and disability managers in two Australian and two Canadian large organizations.

International employee perspectives on disability management.

Purpose: To provide an international analysis of employees' views of the influence of disability management (DM) on the workplace.

Methodology: An international research team with representation from Australia, Canada, China, and Switzerland collected survey data from employees in public and private companies in their respective regions. Due to lack of availability of current measures, a research team-created survey was used and a total of 1201 respondents were collected across the four countries.

Characteristics of the traumatic stressors experienced by rural first responders.

First responders routinely experience work-related events that meet the definition of a traumatic stressor. Despite the high exposure to traumatic events, prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are relatively low. This discrepancy points to the potential value of identifying factors that distinguish those traumatic stressors that produce ongoing traumatic stress symptoms from those that do not.

Work disability prevention in rural healthcare workers.

Introduction: Approximately 20% of healthcare workers in high-income countries such as Australia, Canada and the USA work in rural areas. Healthcare workers are known to be vulnerable to occupational injury and poor work disability outcomes; given their rural-urban distribution, it is possible to compare work disability prevention in rural and urban areas. However, little attention has been paid to work disability prevention issues specific to rural workers, including rural healthcare workers.

The perpetual search for parsimony: enhancing the epistemological and practical utility of qualitative research findings.

Background: While it appears that the term parsimony has been used in the context of qualitative research and qualitative research methodology, there is a distinct absence of writing that actually explores, seeks to define, understand, critique, apply and/or evaluate the concept in qualitative research literature.

Aims: This paper explores a number of issues pertaining to parsimony in qualitative research. It is the hope of the authors that this paper might raise awareness of the hitherto unexplored issues, stimulate some further interest in these and prompt other qualitative researchers to contribute to the ensuing debate.

Physician-stakeholder collaboration in Disability Management: a Canadian perspective on guidelines and expectations.

Purpose: The physician plays a vital role in Disability Management; unfortunately, there is an apparent lack of clarity with respect to the functions included in this role. The present article reviews the collaborative nature of the physician-stakeholder relationship giving attention to types of expectations, current Canadian guidelines and future challenges.

Conclusion: The authors conclude that although challenging and complex, the physician's performance in Disability Management can be optimized through improved communication and collaboration with stakeholders.