Cynthia Damba
Biographic Data
| ID | 4155609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Damba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Damba |
| SIGNATURE | DAMBA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Public Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Building Capacity for Health Workforce Planning
Background: Health workforce planning holds promise for enhancing access to integrated care, supporting proactive and evidence-based workforce decision-making, promoting workforce sustainability, and ensuring equitable distribution of resources. Approach: Ontario Health Toronto and the Canadian Health Workforce Network co-developed and operationalized an integrated primary care workforce planning process in Toronto. The process has four iterative…
Integrated primary care workforce planning in the City of Toronto
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Prevalence of Sars-CoV-2 infection among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
During the first wave of the pandemic, rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection at sites for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto varied significantly over time. The observation of lower rates at certain sites may be attributable to overall time trends, expansion of outreach-based testing to include sites without known outbreaks, and/or individual site characteristics
Challenges in recruiting hard-to-reach populations focusing on Latin American recent immigrants
Purpose – Recruiting immigrant populations, particularly recent arrivals, is challenging due to lack of sampling frames and other factors. The purpose of this paper is to report the feasibility of using a quasi-random sampling strategy for recruiting recent Latin American (LA) immigrants. Design/methodology/approach – The initial recruitment strategy included random selection of two census tracts (CTs) with high concentrations and numbers of rece…
A Feasibility Study of a Culturally and Gender-specific Dance to Promote Physical Activity for South Asian Immigrant Women in the Greater Toronto Area
Perceived barriers in accessing food among recent Latin American immigrants in Toronto
The main barrier to food security among our sample of LA newcomers to Toronto is limited financial resources, highlighting the need for policies and strategies that could improve their financial power to purchase sufficient, nutritious, and culturally-acceptable food. Linguistic barriers and limited information among newcomers suggest the need to provide linguistically- and culturally-appropriate information related to community-based food progra…
Food Insecurity Among Latin American Recent Immigrants in Toronto
Defining Needs-based Urban Health Planning Areas is Feasible and Desirable
Prevalence of Sars-CoV-2 infection among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
During the first wave of the pandemic, rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection at sites for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto varied significantly over time. The observation of lower rates at certain sites may be attributable to overall time trends, expansion of outreach-based testing to include sites without known outbreaks, and/or individual site characteristics
Defining Needs-based Urban Health Planning Areas is Feasible and Desirable
Defining Needs-based Urban Health Planning Areas is Feasible and Desirable
Food Insecurity Among Latin American Recent Immigrants in Toronto
Perceived barriers in accessing food among recent Latin American immigrants in Toronto
The main barrier to food security among our sample of LA newcomers to Toronto is limited financial resources, highlighting the need for policies and strategies that could improve their financial power to purchase sufficient, nutritious, and culturally-acceptable food. Linguistic barriers and limited information among newcomers suggest the need to provide linguistically- and culturally-appropriate information related to community-based food progra…
A Feasibility Study of a Culturally and Gender-specific Dance to Promote Physical Activity for South Asian Immigrant Women in the Greater Toronto Area
Challenges in recruiting hard-to-reach populations focusing on Latin American recent immigrants
Purpose – Recruiting immigrant populations, particularly recent arrivals, is challenging due to lack of sampling frames and other factors. The purpose of this paper is to report the feasibility of using a quasi-random sampling strategy for recruiting recent Latin American (LA) immigrants. Design/methodology/approach – The initial recruitment strategy included random selection of two census tracts (CTs) with high concentrations and numbers of rece…
Prevalence of Sars-CoV-2 infection among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
During the first wave of the pandemic, rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection at sites for people experiencing homelessness in Toronto varied significantly over time. The observation of lower rates at certain sites may be attributable to overall time trends, expansion of outreach-based testing to include sites without known outbreaks, and/or individual site characteristics
Integrated primary care workforce planning in the City of Toronto
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Building Capacity for Health Workforce Planning
Background: Health workforce planning holds promise for enhancing access to integrated care, supporting proactive and evidence-based workforce decision-making, promoting workforce sustainability, and ensuring equitable distribution of resources. Approach: Ontario Health Toronto and the Canadian Health Workforce Network co-developed and operationalized an integrated primary care workforce planning process in Toronto. The process has four iterative…
Medicine (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works)