Jennifer Yessis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5411709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Yessis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Yessis |
| SIGNATURE | YESSIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2465-0211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Evaluation of the Power Up program
Introduction: During the summer holidays, children often demonstrate reduced physical activity and poorer dietary habits, largely attributed to the lack of structured routines and supervision that school provides. Summer camps have the potential to offer youth engaging and organized activities and serve as an environment for promoting healthy lifestyle habits. This paper presents the protocol for the evaluation of the Power Up program, a study wh…
Scale up of the learning circles
Findings highlight LC as a participatory approach to build capacity and support iterative planning-to-action in community food systems. Identified strengths and challenges support opportunities to expand, adopt and modify the LC approach in other Indigenous communities with diverse food systems
Learning Circles
Youth health, long-term food sovereignty and the reclamation of traditional food-related knowledge are areas of concern within Indigenous communities in Canada. Learning Circles: Local Healthy Food to School (LC:LHF2S) built on an exemplar program in four predominantly Indigenous communities. In each, the initiative worked with interested community members to plan, implement and evaluate a range of activities aimed at enhancing access to local, h…
Covid-19-Related Psychological and Psychosocial Distress Among Parents and Youth With Physical Illness
Despite the initial thrust of research aimed at understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth with physical illness and their parents, knowledge gaps in the literature remain, providing the impetus for additional investigation. This study described changes in psychological distress from prior to during the COVID-19 pandemic for parents and youth with physical illness, compared parent-proxy and youth self-reported perceptions of COVID…
Winter Storms and Fall-Related Injuries
Emergency department visitation data were analyzed using a matched-pair, retrospective cohort method to estimate the effects of winter storms on fall-related injury risks for a midsized urban community in Ontario, Canada. Using a unique definition and classification of winter storm events and dry-weather control periods, relative risks of injury were estimated for total falls and two subcategories (same-level falls involving ice and snow; all oth…
Canada’s Physical Literacy Consensus Statement
Sector partners hope that the Consensus Statement, with its standardized definition, brings greater harmony, synergy, and consistency to physical literacy efforts in Canada and internationally. Going forward, the impact of this initiative on the sector, and the more distal goal of increasing habitual physical activity levels, should be assessed
Guidance for organisational strategy on knowledge to action from conceptual frameworks and practice
This paper aims to provide public health organisations involved in chronic disease prevention with conceptual and practical guidance for developing contextually sensitive knowledge-to-action (KTA) strategies. Methods involve an analysis of 13 relevant conceptual KTA frameworks, and a review of three case examples of organisations with active KTA agendas. From this analysis, this paper identifies and discusses four key principles for enhancing org…
Students’ Perspective of the CES Case Competition
The Case Competition is open to university students (undergraduate and graduate) across Canada. Teams of three to five students, from any discipline, analyze an evaluation case and present their findings to a panel of judges. The competition consists of two rounds — the preliminary and the final. The preliminary round takes place at each team’s home university. The teams are presented with an evaluation case and asked to address specific issues. …
Communication Courses in Canadian Graduate Programs in Health Promotion
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Communication Courses in Canadian Graduate Programs in Health Promotion
Students’ Perspective of the CES Case Competition
The Case Competition is open to university students (undergraduate and graduate) across Canada. Teams of three to five students, from any discipline, analyze an evaluation case and present their findings to a panel of judges. The competition consists of two rounds — the preliminary and the final. The preliminary round takes place at each team’s home university. The teams are presented with an evaluation case and asked to address specific issues. …
Guidance for organisational strategy on knowledge to action from conceptual frameworks and practice
This paper aims to provide public health organisations involved in chronic disease prevention with conceptual and practical guidance for developing contextually sensitive knowledge-to-action (KTA) strategies. Methods involve an analysis of 13 relevant conceptual KTA frameworks, and a review of three case examples of organisations with active KTA agendas. From this analysis, this paper identifies and discusses four key principles for enhancing org…
Canada’s Physical Literacy Consensus Statement
Sector partners hope that the Consensus Statement, with its standardized definition, brings greater harmony, synergy, and consistency to physical literacy efforts in Canada and internationally. Going forward, the impact of this initiative on the sector, and the more distal goal of increasing habitual physical activity levels, should be assessed
Winter Storms and Fall-Related Injuries
Emergency department visitation data were analyzed using a matched-pair, retrospective cohort method to estimate the effects of winter storms on fall-related injury risks for a midsized urban community in Ontario, Canada. Using a unique definition and classification of winter storm events and dry-weather control periods, relative risks of injury were estimated for total falls and two subcategories (same-level falls involving ice and snow; all oth…
Covid-19-Related Psychological and Psychosocial Distress Among Parents and Youth With Physical Illness
Despite the initial thrust of research aimed at understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth with physical illness and their parents, knowledge gaps in the literature remain, providing the impetus for additional investigation. This study described changes in psychological distress from prior to during the COVID-19 pandemic for parents and youth with physical illness, compared parent-proxy and youth self-reported perceptions of COVID…
Learning Circles
Youth health, long-term food sovereignty and the reclamation of traditional food-related knowledge are areas of concern within Indigenous communities in Canada. Learning Circles: Local Healthy Food to School (LC:LHF2S) built on an exemplar program in four predominantly Indigenous communities. In each, the initiative worked with interested community members to plan, implement and evaluate a range of activities aimed at enhancing access to local, h…
Scale up of the learning circles
Findings highlight LC as a participatory approach to build capacity and support iterative planning-to-action in community food systems. Identified strengths and challenges support opportunities to expand, adopt and modify the LC approach in other Indigenous communities with diverse food systems
Evaluation of the Power Up program
Introduction: During the summer holidays, children often demonstrate reduced physical activity and poorer dietary habits, largely attributed to the lack of structured routines and supervision that school provides. Summer camps have the potential to offer youth engaging and organized activities and serve as an environment for promoting healthy lifestyle habits. This paper presents the protocol for the evaluation of the Power Up program, a study wh…
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Health promotion (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)