Julie G. (Reid) Pabillar 

To find ways to provide evidence-based health information to healthcare systems, Straus, Tetroe, and Graham (2011) outlined knowledge...

Unfortunately, I was unable to find an environmental scan specifically related to my health promotion issue of rising rates of syphilis...

It is hard to believe it was just a few short years ago when I established my ePortfolio for the first course of the Masters of Health...

Reflecting on the past 12 weeks, I am in awe of my new knowledge. I have learned new health promotion and planning concepts that I can...

As I sit here halfway through the MHST/NURS 631 Health Promotion 1: Planning course, I cannot help but reflect on the valuable learning...

As I previously quoted in a blog post (Pabillar, 2021, para 1), "Knowledge is powerful, but only if accurate." Anecdotally, this has been...

In 2010, I took a leap of faith and left critical care for a sexual health nursing position in public health. Little did I know at the...

Over a quarter of a century later, and as health promotors strive to enhance health and reduce inequities, they still consider the Ottawa...

More so than previous experiences, my personal leadership philosophy has tremendously evolved as I have been both a follower and a leader...

Athabasca University's Foundations of Health Systems in Canada is a graduate course that offers an introductory exploration of Canada's...

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) causes an infection that affects and attacks the immune system. The immune system is the part of...

The 2016 statistics show that Canada's Indigenous people make up 1.6 million of the population, representing 4.9%. In Halton Region,...

Substance use has always been a significant health care problem that exists on many multifaceted levels of our system and contributes to...

At the beginning of this unit, we were all to look at the WHO definition of health from 1948. My end thoughts and suggestions on...

In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed the definition of health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social...

Anyone with a broadband connection, a resource to share and much worse, a bias opinion could potentially cause irreversible damage to...

I had the opportunity to connect with another Masters of Health Studies Graduate Student – Darri O'Neil. I will be the first to admit...

I have often thought about what it would be like to live in a country where health care is private. I am sure the wait times would be...

Knowledge is powerful, but only if accurate. I am unsure how many times I have said this in my lifetime, but nothing frustrates me more...