Jennifer Plenderleith

Datos Biográficos

ID4721391
NOMBREJennifer Plenderleith
NOMBRESJennifer
APELLIDOPlenderleith
FIRMAPLENDERLEITH J
AFILIACIONESMcMaster University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS8
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H2

  • Navigating interprofessional boundaries

    Open AccessElena Netierman, Farimah Hakemzadeh et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Referencias: 7

  • Does an alignment of employment policies and individual preferences affect intention to stay in the profession? Evidence from Canadian Midwives

    Open AccessFarimah Hakemzadeh, Firat K Sayin et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy2021

    BACKGROUND: This study examines whether alignment of actual and preferred employment policies, including compensation method, employment status, and work schedule, affect midwives' intention to stay in the profession. The study further investigates the moderating effect of financial-rewards satisfaction and compares midwives' policy preferences in urban/rural practices. METHODS: Cross-sectional survey data from 549 midwives across Canada were ana…

  • Home Care Workers’ Skills in the Context of Task Shifting

    Open AccessRachel Barken, Margaret Denton et al.ARTICLECanadian Review of Sociology/Revue…2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 10

    Task shifting, which involves the transfer of care work from regulated health-care professionals to home care workers (HCWs), is a strategy to ensure the efficient delivery of home care services in Canada and internationally. Using a feminist political economy approach, this paper explores the effects of task shifting on HCWs' skills. Task shifting may be understood as a form of downward substitution-and an effort to increase control over workers…

  • Task shifting in the provision of home and social care in Ontario, Canada

    Open AccessMargaret Denton, Catherine Brookman et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2014Citada por: 5Referencias: 4

    Growing healthcare costs have caused home-care providers to look for more efficient use of healthcare resources. Task shifting is suggested as a strategy to reduce the costs of delivering home-care services. Task shifting refers to the delegation or transfer of tasks from regulated healthcare professionals to home-care workers (HCWs). The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of task shifting on the quality of care provided to older adu…

  • Impact of retirement type on income for people with disabilities

    Margaret Denton, Jennifer Plenderleith et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2012Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of involuntary retirement on the economic security of persons with a disability. Very little research examines the economic consequences to forced retirement and no research focuses on persons with disabilities who have a higher rate of involuntary retirement than the general population. Analysing the 2006 Canadian Participation and Activity Limitation Survey, we find that persons with a disa…

  • Social determinants of older adults’ awareness of community support services in Hamilton, Ontario

    Open AccessJoseph Tindale, Margaret Denton et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2011Referencias: 2

    Community support services (CSSs) have been developed in Canada and other Western nations to enable persons coping with health or social issues to continue to live in the community. This study addresses the extent to which awareness of CSSs is structured by the social determinants of health. In a telephone interview conducted in February-March 2006, 1152 community-dwelling older adults (response rate 12.4%) from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada were mad…