Colleen Davison
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 234702 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Colleen Davison |
| PRENOMES | Colleen |
| SOBRENOME | Davison |
| ASSINATURA | DAVISON C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0410-3352 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From Nourishing to Flourishing
Historically, research involving Indigenous Peoples has been fraught with ethical violations, extractive practices, and power imbalances that have framed Indigenous communities from a deficit lens, overlooking their strengths, knowledges, and capabilities to support community wellbeing. Indigenous Peoples have fought for Indigenous leadership and meaningful community engagement in research, developing ethical protocols and approaches to ensure re…
Learning from the wisdom of community
Highlights • Social isolation and community connectedness are core to wellness and resilience • Participatory urban planning can enhance inclusion and health • Systems navigation designed for specific groups will maximize access to services • Poverty and material deprivation modify all aspects of family resilience • Stake’s multiple case study methods can be adapted for CBPAR Abstract Adverse Childhood Experience and Adverse Community Environment…
Leveraging Art to Support Refugee Newcomer Families’ Well-Being
There has been a shift toward resettlement in smaller cities, creating potential new challenges, and opportunities, in supporting refugee families. This study used interviews and participant observation to explore health and social impacts of a settlement services–run arts-based therapy group for newcomer families in a small city. A social-ecological approach exploring how the program operated as a third space highlighted potential pathways for s…
Poly-crisis and global health
The Canadian Association for Global Health convenes the Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH) annually to provide a national platform to discuss pertinent global health issues. The 30th Canadian Conference on Global Health, co-chaired by Dr Michelle Amri and Dr Margaret Mutumba, was held in person from 25 to 27 October 2024 in Vancouver and [...]
It’s a big, round circle of knowledge to me. I don’t know how else to explain it”
Indigenous identity is supported by connections to land, community, and culture and is a key aspect of health. Cultural identity is threatened by settler colonialism, and urban Indigenous Peoples experience unique challenges including the myth that Indigeneity is incompatible with urban areas, even though most Indigenous Peoples in Canada live in cities, and many express their identities through urban Indigenous food sovereignty (IFS) practices. …
I Was Scared That My Parents Would Find Out”
Women’s sexual behavior is regulated through notions of family honor, shame, modesty, and sexual purity in Bangladeshi culture. Little is known about the lived experiences of 1.5-generation Bangladeshi women who engage in premarital romantic/sexual relationships. Drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews with ten 1.5-generation Bangladeshi women who immigrated to Canada as children or adolescents, this article uses a narrative inquiry method…
From ‘Pen Sao’ to ‘Tue Pa’
Adolescent birth rates in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) remain the highest in Southeast Asia. There is growing recognition that adolescent pregnancy in Lao PDR is occurring within and outside marriage, but there is a lack of robust qualitative evidence to understand girls’ pathways to adolescent pregnancy and contributing factors, especially outside of union (cohabitation or marriage). This study aimed to improve understanding of pathway…
‘From rhetoric to action
The Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH) is an annual conference organised by the Canadian Association for Global Health that brings together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students from various disciplines and sectors to discuss pressing global health issues. The CCGH provides a platform for sharing knowledge, best practices, and innovations in global health research, policy, [...]
Challenging the myth of women's empowerment
Commercial sex and mining have long been interwoven. With the spread of neoliberal capitalism, social relations around the mine site have become increasingly commodified. This ethnographic study examines the experiences of female sex workers in the mining town of Solwezi, Zambia. Women's stories offer insight into the lives of those excluded from the conventional women's economic empowerment narrative that has been widely adopted by the mining in…
Family and community resilience
In the context of additional stresses related to the COVID-19 pandemic, resilient behaviours and strategies for families were identified. The creation or development of networks of intra- and inter-community bonds; the promotion of accessible parenting, housing, and other social services; and the conservation and expansion of natural environments may support resilience and health
Exploring Teen Pregnancy as a Public Health Problem
Inequities related to teen pregnancy are a complex social and health problem across the globe. Evaluation of research assumptions can help to move research forward when considering complex public health issues. Drawing on previous critical reviews, this scoping review sought to map not just what teen pregnancy research is available, but how current public health research was orienting to teen pregnancy in Canada. This review included studies focu…
Domains of spirituality and their importance to the health of 75 533 adolescents in 12 countries
Spirituality is an ancient concept with many contemporary applications to the field of health promotion. While recognized in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a basic human right, definitional misunderstandings about what spirituality is, and is not, and the mechanisms by which it affects the health of young people, remain. In this cross-national analysis involving >75 000 adolescents from 12 countries, we examined the relative impo…
Divergent experiences of Syrian refugee girls in Tripoli, Lebanon
Adolescent pregnancy in Mongolia
Introduction Adolescent pregnancy is a major public health and social concern which pose enormous pregnancy and delivery-related risks for both the mother and their neonate. This study aims to estimate adolescent pregnancy and determine the factors associated with adolescent pregnancy in Mongolia. Methods This study pooled data from 2013 and 2018 Mongolia, Social Indicator Sample Surveys (MSISS). A total of 2808 adolescent girls aged 15–19 years …
Association between pregnancy planning or intention and early child development
The Sustainable Development Goals have a specific target to “ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development” by 2030. There is sparse literature regarding the impact of pregnancy intention (wantedness and timing) or planning on child development. We aimed to summarize the evidence measuring the association between unintended or unplanned pregnancy and child development for children aged 3 to 5. We included studi…
Family Support Differences Between Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Adolescents Across 30 Countries
Differing theoretical indications suggest that immigrant adolescents’ perceptions of family support will either be lower or higher than those of their non-immigrant peers. To unravel this inconsistency, current cross-national study examines family support differences between first- and second-generation immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents. It also investigates how these differences vary based on restrictive integration policies, anti-immigran…
Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on life and learning experiences of indigenous and non-Indigenous university and college students in Ontario, Canada
Our study highlights important impacts of the pandemic on students of higher education that may have significant individual and societal implications going forward. Both postsecondary institutions and society at large need to attend to these impacts, in order to preserve the wellbeing of graduates, the Canadian labor market, and to ensure that the pandemic does not further exacerbate existing inequalities in post-secondary education in Canada
Investigating the role of climate-related disasters in the relationship between food insecurity and mental health for youth aged 15–24 in 142 countries
Food insecurity (FI) represents a major global health challenge. Because climate-related disasters are a determinant of both FI and poor mental health, we investigated whether the severity of these disasters intensifies the relationship between FI and youth mental health. Data on FI and mental health came from the Gallup World Poll, a nationally representative survey of individuals in 142 countries, which included 28,292 youth aged 15–24. Data on…
Housing inadequacy in rural Saskatchewan First Nation communities
Housing and house conditions on First Nation communities in Canada are important determinants of health for community members. Little is known about rural First Nation housing in the Canadian Prairies. The aim was to survey houses in two rural First Nation communities in Saskatchewan, Canada to understand housing conditions, prevalence of mold/mildew and dampness, and sources, locations and frequency of mold and dampness. Surveys were conducted w…
Indigenous Strength
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health of urban Indigenous Peoples. We sought to examine innovations and changes in service delivery by Indigenous service providers in the community who are addressing community needs based on an Indigenous worldview. Basic Procedures: The research was a collaboration between an academic team, an Indigenous research associate, and an Indigenous oversight co…
Spirituality, Community Belonging, and Mental Health Outcomes of Indigenous Peoples during the Covid-19 Pandemic
We aimed to assess the association between community belonging, spirituality, and mental health outcomes among Indigenous Peoples during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional observational study used online survey distribution and targeted outreach to the local Indigenous community to collect a convenience sample between 23 April 2020 and 20 November 2020. The surveys included demographic information, self-reported symptoms of depression (P…
Food worry and mental health outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic
Our study highlights the relationship between food worry and poor mental health. Policy supports such as improved income supports, clinical implications such as screening for food worry in primary care, referral to emergency food programs and support with meal planning may help mitigate mental health symptoms during the current pandemic, during future societal recovery from this pandemic and during future pandemics
Perceptions of child physical discipline among Burmese migrants living in Mae Sot, Thailand
Despite the United Nation's disapproval of child physical discipline and its association with numerous negative outcomes, physical discipline continues to be used globally and is often present in countries experiencing financial or political instability. Burmese migrants living in Mae Sot, Thailand experience instability due to their experiences of socioeconomic disadvantage, cultural and religious discrimination, and forced migration. Exploring …
Last mile research
Background: The term ‘last mile’ has been used across disciplines to refer to populations who are farthest away, most difficult to reach, or last to benefit from a program or service. However, last mile research lacks a shared understanding around its conceptualization.Objectives: This project used a concept mapping process to answer the questions: what is last mile research in global health and, how can it be used to make positive change for hea…
Food insecurity, state fragility and youth mental health
Youth in fragile settings face disproportionate risks of experiencing food insecurity and poor mental health. Cross-national evidence is lacking on the association between food insecurity and mental health in youth populations, and on state fragility as a social determinant of these experiences. We analysed data from six cycles of the Gallup World Poll (2014-2019), an annual survey that contains multi-item scales of food insecurity, mental health…
Relative food insecurity, mental health and wellbeing in 160 countries
Preliminary field-work
In the Canadian North researchers of all disciplines are increasingly finding that local communities are neither uninterested nor ignorant of the potential for research to benefit their communities. We propose preliminary field-work as the early stages of research in the field that allow for exploration, reflexivity, creativity, mutual exchange and interaction through the establishment of research relationships with local people often prior to th…
Student Researchers Negotiating Consent in Northern Aboriginal Communities
In this article, the authors discuss what students are doing to reconcile the differences between institutional ethical review standards and the reality of community-based, qualitative research, particularly in northern Canada. They examine the experiences of 12 students who are currently undertaking or have recently completed qualitative research in the North. Students raised concerns about what informed consent really mean; the contentiousness …
The Relationship Between Immigrant School Composition, Classmate Support and Involvement in Physical Fighting and Bullying among Adolescent Immigrants and Non-immigrants in 11 Countries
When I don't have money to buy the drugs, I just manage.’—Exploring the lived experience of persons with physical disabilities in accessing primary health care services in rural Ghana
Social Justice and Core Competencies for Public Health
Biographical Collage as a Tool in Inuit Community-Based Participatory Research and Capacity Development
As a method in arts-based qualitative research, the collage technique has been previously utilized for data generation, elicitation, analysis, and presentation of results. Collage has also been used as a self-reflective, development exercise within community-based research due to its abstract and creative self-exploratory style. Although previously used in research with a variety of populations, there is limited evidence of applying the collage t…
Corporate sponsorship of global health research
Assessing the effects of a Canadian-Mongolian capacity building program for health and environmental impact assessment in the mining sector
An equity tool for health impact assessments
Being Global in Public Health Practice and Research
Qualitative Research in an International Research Program
Nurses are knowledgeable about issues that affect quality and equity of care and are well qualified to inform policy, yet their expertise is seldom acknowledged and their input infrequently invited. In 2007, a large multidisciplinary team of researchers and decision-makers from Canada and five low- and middle-income countries (Barbados, Jamaica, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa) received funding to implement a participatory action research (PAR) p…
Ethical Challenges and Opportunities for Nurses in HIV and Aids Community-Based Participatory Research in Jamaica
As part of a multinational program of research, we undertook a community-based participatory research project in Jamaica to strengthen nurses' engagement in HIV and AIDS policy. Three leadership hubs were purposefully convened and included small groups of people (6–10) from diverse HIV and AIDS stakeholder groups in Jamaica: Frontline nurses and nurse managers in primary and secondary care settings; Revised researchers; Revised health care decisi…
Trends and demographic characteristics of physical fighting and fighting-related injuries among Canadian youth, 1993–2010
Student Researchers Negotiating Consent in Northern Aboriginal Communities
In this article, the authors discuss what students are doing to reconcile the differences between institutional ethical review standards and the reality of community-based, qualitative research, particularly in northern Canada. They examine the experiences of 12 students who are currently undertaking or have recently completed qualitative research in the North. Students raised concerns about what informed consent really mean; the contentiousness …
Social Justice and Core Competencies for Public Health
Preliminary field-work
In the Canadian North researchers of all disciplines are increasingly finding that local communities are neither uninterested nor ignorant of the potential for research to benefit their communities. We propose preliminary field-work as the early stages of research in the field that allow for exploration, reflexivity, creativity, mutual exchange and interaction through the establishment of research relationships with local people often prior to th…
Being Global in Public Health Practice and Research
All That Glitters
Currently, Canada’s northern territories have three active diamond mines and one mine under construction, and one mine has recently closed. In response to local concerns, and in partnership with members of the Tłįchǫ First Nation, this ethnographic study examines the positive and detrimental impacts of diamond mining on youth in Behchokǫ, Northwest Territories, using data collected from intensive fieldwork and participant observation, focus group…
Response from the Authors
We apologize for the error in our paper and we thank the authors of the Letter to the Editor for pointing it out.The study was part of a PhD dissertation and the full report of this work (published in 2007) accurately denotes "Tch" throughout (Davison, 2007).In the process of drafting and updating the work for this paper, we referred to the Tch Government website (www.tlicho.ca)for guidance on current spelling."Tch" appears there extensively as v…
An equity tool for health impact assessments
Off‐Road Vehicle Ridership and Associated Helmet Use in Canadian Youth
Purpose: In North America, the use of off‐road vehicles by young people is increasing, as are related injuries and fatalities. We examined the prevalence of off‐road ridership and off‐road helmet use in different subgroups of Canadian youth in order to better understand possible inequities associated with these health risk behaviors. Methods: Data came from Cycle 6 (2009‐2010) of the WHO Health Behavior in School‐Aged Children Study (HBSC). Parti…
Bicycle helmet use and bicycling-related injury among young Canadians
Troubling disparities exist in bicycle use, bicycle helmet use and bicycling-related injuries across specific population subgroups. Bicycle safety and injury prevention initiatives should be informed by disaggregated analyses and the context of bicycle-related health differences should be further examined
Ethical Challenges and Opportunities for Nurses in HIV and Aids Community-Based Participatory Research in Jamaica
As part of a multinational program of research, we undertook a community-based participatory research project in Jamaica to strengthen nurses' engagement in HIV and AIDS policy. Three leadership hubs were purposefully convened and included small groups of people (6–10) from diverse HIV and AIDS stakeholder groups in Jamaica: Frontline nurses and nurse managers in primary and secondary care settings; Revised researchers; Revised health care decisi…
Eucharistic Eating, Family Meals and the Health of Adolescent Girls
This national study of adolescent Canadian girls focuses on church or religious group involvement as a potential determinant of health, as well as participation in family meals as a spiritual practice with potential health benefits. Current church involvement did not relate to improved emotional health, suggesting the need for more integrative messages and practices. Findings confirmed the strong protective relationship between regular participat…
Recreational use of prescription medications among Canadian young people
Qualitative Research in an International Research Program
Nurses are knowledgeable about issues that affect quality and equity of care and are well qualified to inform policy, yet their expertise is seldom acknowledged and their input infrequently invited. In 2007, a large multidisciplinary team of researchers and decision-makers from Canada and five low- and middle-income countries (Barbados, Jamaica, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa) received funding to implement a participatory action research (PAR) p…
Time‐Use Patterns and the Recreational Use of Prescription Medications Among Rural and Small Town Youth
PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between rural and small town adolescents' time-use and an increased risk for recreational use of prescription drugs in rural settings. METHODS: Rural students in grades 9 and 10 (n = 2,393) were asked about past-year recreational use of prescription medications and their time-use in structured and unstructured activity contexts in the 2009/2010 Cycle of the Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children sur…
Replication of a whole school ethos-changing intervention
A non-specific, risk protective intervention in the social environment of the school had a significant impact on a cluster of risk behaviours for girls. Results were remarkably like reports from similar school environment interventions elsewhere, albeit with different behaviours being affected. It may be that this type of intervention activates change processes that interact highly with context, impacting different risks differently, according to…
It still takes a village
Study findings from this large, contemporary and national analysis affirm the importance of social supports as potential determinants of health for young people from both high and low affluent groups. Conceptually, findings affirm the wisdom of the ancient principle: "it takes a village to raise a child
Youth injury prevention in Canada
The modified-Delphi process was an appropriate method to achieve agreement on 19 specific evidence-based, policy-oriented recommendations to complement the national youth injury report. In providing their input, it is noted that the injury stakeholders each acted as individual experts, unattached to any organizational position or policy. These recommendations will require multidisciplinary collaborations in order to support the proposed policy de…
Developmental patterns of adolescent spiritual health in six countries
The spiritual health of adolescents is a topic of emerging contemporary importance. Limited numbers of international studies provide evidence about developmental patterns of this aspect of health during the adolescent years. Using multidimensional indicators of spiritual health that have been adapted for use within younger adolescent populations, we therefore: (1) describe aspects of the perceptions of the importance of spiritual health of adoles…
Bodies and Behaviours
This is an interdisciplinary study that applies Christian feminist theology and health sciences’ insights to the results of a study concerning adolescent girls and body image. The desire of adolescent girls to be thin is inherently connected to their desire for wholeness, acceptance and unconditional love, and the promise of Christianity reaches a wholeness of this depth. And yet, the reality of the church's relationship to the female body often …
Inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians
Study findings highlight potential inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians, as well as opportunities for methodological advances in the assessment of adolescent spiritual health in our population
Physical fighting, fighting-related injuries and family affluence among Canadian youth
It appears that a socioeconomic gradient exists where lower affluence is associated with a higher risk of reporting a physical fight and fighting-related injury irrespective of the measure used. While the patterns were generally the same with all three measurements, the strength of this gradient varied across measures. This demonstrates that each indicator may measure different aspects of affluence. Further analyses are needed to explore concepts…
The Relationship Between Immigrant School Composition, Classmate Support and Involvement in Physical Fighting and Bullying among Adolescent Immigrants and Non-immigrants in 11 Countries
Corporate sponsorship of global health research
Trends and demographic characteristics of physical fighting and fighting-related injuries among Canadian youth, 1993–2010
Harnessing opportunities for good governance of health impacts of mining projects in Mongolia
BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals call for the effective governance of shared natural resources in ways that support inclusive growth, safeguard the integrity of the natural and physical environment, and promote health and well-being for all. For large-scale resource extraction projects -- e.g. in the mining sector -- environmental regulations and in particular environmental impact assessments (EIA) provide an important but insufficie…
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