Ellen Speight
Health Promotions, lesson learned
As I reflect on my progress in the study of Health promotion, I think the most interesting piece so far has been learning about the...
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Ellen Speight
Jun 18, 20222 min read
Be careful what you read when it comes to your health.
While researching the risks of false health information, I came upon a story of how Rick Simpson cured his skin cancer with cannabis oil...
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Ellen Speight
May 29, 20223 min read
Health Promotion to Reduce Inequalities
When we think of health we generally think of physical health and the ability to do the things we enjoy. However, the World Health...
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Ellen Speight
May 17, 20223 min read
The role of The Ottawa Charter in health promotion in Canada and abroad.
The Ottawa Charter has played a significant role in the way we consider health promotion in Canada and the world. The charter was created...
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Ellen Speight
Dec 1, 20197 min read
e-Health, are we there yet?
e-Health is a rapidly growing area. 73% of Canadian primary care physicians are now using electronic medical record systems (EMRS),...
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Ellen Speight
Nov 16, 20193 min read
Improving Breast Cancer Screening in our vulnerable Indigenous women
Indigenous people now make up 4.9% of the Canadian population (Statistics Canada 2018) but we really haven’t crafted breast cancer...
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Ellen Speight
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Chronic Disease in an Imaging Department Setting
As a manager of a hospital diagnostic imaging department, my exposure to chronic conditions is really related to cancer either through...
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Ellen Speight
Nov 3, 20196 min read
Curbing the sugar high: A multilevel model of health for diabetes in the South Asian population
Diabetes is a chronic disease that interferes with the body’s ability to make or use insulin produced in the pancreas reducing the...
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Ellen Speight
Oct 14, 20194 min read
Social Determinants of Health and Indigenous people
When considering our health, we quickly think of going to the hospital or doctor’s office, having appendicitis, a heart attack, cancer or...
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Ellen Speight
Oct 5, 20193 min read
Should we update the definition of health?
When considering what a current definition of health should be, one quickly realizes that this a more challenging task than you realize,...
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Ellen Speight
Sep 29, 20194 min read
Professionalism in Healthcare
When I first considered the term “professionalism”, I felt “of course I am a professional” but as I stopped to really consider what this...
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