Sandra Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5413510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6000-436X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chronic Disease Management Among People Treated for Comorbid Serious Mental Illness and/or Substance Use Disorders
People with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders are at high risk of chronic physical diseases like diabetes and hypertension and related acute complications but may face barriers to chronic disease management (including medication management and laboratory testing). We describe patterns of service use and chronic disease management among people with diabetes and/or hypertension treated for comorbid serious mental illness and/or …
Impacts of local, provincial, and federal immigration policies on health and social services access among women with precarious immigration status
Sanctuary City policies are recommended to advance im/migrants' human rights, reduce instances of delayed or denied care, untreated illnesses, and social isolation. Full implementation of Sanctuary principles at the local level (i.e., reduced collaboration between local service providers and federal immigration enforcement) is needed to improve access to health and other services based on need, regardless of immigration status. At the provincial …
The relationship between neighbourhood income and youth mental health service use differs by immigration experience
Mental health service use was substantially lower among immigrant youth than non-immigrant youth, but higher proportions of immigrant youth were hospitalized involuntarily. The reverse income gradient patterns observed for community-mental health service use are noteworthy and suggest significant barriers to accessing preventable care among immigrant youth, particularly those living in lower-income neighbourhoods
Change in Hospital Risk-Standardized Stroke Mortality Performance With and Without the Passive Surveillance Stroke Severity Score
BACKGROUND: Adjustment for baseline stroke severity is necessary for accurate assessment of hospital performance. We evaluated whether adjusting for the Passive Surveillance Stroke SeVerity (PaSSV) score, a measure of stroke severity derived using administrative data, changed hospital-specific estimated 30-day risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) after stroke. METHODS: We used linked administrative data to identify adults who were hospitalized…
Sars-CoV-2 testing and Covid-19–related primary care use among people with citizenship, permanent residency, and temporary immigration status
Interwoven immigration, health, and occupational policies place people with temporary status in circumstances of precarity and higher health risk. Reducing precarity accompanying temporary status, including regularization pathways, and decoupling access to health care from immigration status can address health inequities
Do changes in primary care service use over time differ by neighbourhood income? Population-based longitudinal study in British Columbia, Canada
Results raise concerns that equity in access to primary care has deteriorated in BC. Reforms to primary care that fail to attend to the multidimensional needs of low-income communities may entrench existing inequities. Policies that tailor patterns of funding and allocation of resources in accordance with population needs, and that align accountability measures with equity objectives are needed as part of further reform efforts
Predicting the Cost of Health Care Services
BACKGROUND: Case-mix systems and comorbidity indices aggregate clinical information about patients over time and are used to characterize need for health care services. These tools were validated for their original purpose, but those purposes are varied, and they have not been compared directly in the context of predicting costs of health care services. OBJECTIVE: To compare predictions of next-year health care service costs across 4 tools, inclu…
Classifying Physician Practice Style
BACKGROUND: Primary medical care is changing-more female providers, desire for better work-life balance, and increasing availability of walk-in clinics have altered service delivery. There is no uniform physician practice style, and understanding service availability and delivery requires analysis of family physicians' practice patterns, rather than just physician counts. METHODS: This paper offers a new approach for describing the practice habit…
Admission to hospital for pneumonia and influenza attributable to 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 Influenza in First Nations communities in three provinces of Canada
We found an increased risk for pH1N1-related hospital admissions for First Nations communities in all 3 provinces. Interprovincial differences may be partly explained by differences in age structure and socioeconomic status. We were unable to confirm the assumption that remote communities were at higher risk for pH1N1-associated hospitalizations. The aggressive approach to influenza control in remote and isolated First Nations communities in Onta…
Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato
In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in f…
Patient Activation in Primary Healthcare
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Current policy directions place increasing expectations on patients to actively engage in their care, especially in chronic disease management. We examined relationships between patient activation and multiple dimensions of primary healthcare (PHC), including access, utilization, responsiveness, interpersonal communication, and satisfaction for patients with and without chronic illness. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional, …
Hot corridors, deterrence, and guardianship
New Rounds of the Exercise of Plato’s Parmenides
The Language Game in Plato’s Parmenides
The Population's Use of Pharmaceuticals
OBJECTIVES: In this study, population-based analysis is used to study the extent to which characteristics such as age, sex, socioeconomic status, and region of residence are associated with different patterns of pharmaceutical use. It also includes an examination of whether pharmaceutical use is responsive to differential health needs across the population. RESEARCH DESIGN: Indicators of access, intensity of use, and total expenditures are used t…
Using Population-Based Data to Enhance Clinical Practice Guideline Development
OBJECTIVES: Working with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, and using tonsillectomies as a basis of inquiry, MCHPE examined surgical rates and patterns of practice. This project had three major aims: to review whether current patterns of delivery provide optimal care; to enhance the development of clinical guidelines; and to inform and influence physician practice. RESEARCH DESIGN: Both a population-based method of inquiry (which…
Assessing the Extent to Which Hospitals Are Used for Acute Care Purposes
OBJECTIVES: The degree to which Manitobans were appropriately hospitalized for medical conditions was assessed using a retrospective chart review of a sample of patients in 26 hospitals. RESEARCH DESIGN: A standardized set of object-based, nondiagnostic criteria (Inter-Qual) was used by trained abstractors to assess the patient at admission and for each day of stay. RESULTS: A high percentage of admissions and days of care were inappropriate. Ove…
Waiting Times for Surgical Procedures
OBJECTIVES: Polls show that nearly two thirds of Canadians believe that waiting times prior to surgery have increased in recent years. A study was undertaken in Manitoba to determine whether public perceptions about long and increasing waits were valid. RESEARCH DESIGN: Using administrative data, waiting times for 10 types of surgery-ranging from coronary artery bypass surgery and mastectomy to cataract surgery and hernia repairs-were studied ove…
Plato's Parmenides
Plato's Parmenides: A Principle of Interpretation and Seven Arguments SANDRA PETERSON PART I. A PRINCIPLE OF INTERPRETATION 1. THE EVIDENT STRUCTURE OF THE PARMENIDES PLATO'S Parmenides falls naturally into halves. In the first half, which is a conversation between Socrates and Parmenides initiated by the young Socrates ' reaction to arguments of Zcno's, Socrates shows confusion as he tries to answer Parmenides' questions about forms. (Possibly S…
Plato on the Self-Predication of Forms
The extent of self-predication in the earlier dialogues self-predication in the Hippias Major and the Protagoras the third man the middle-dialogue forms are universals the rejection of the doctrine that the form is not an F Thing the form as an F Thing non-univocally with the F Particulars the form as an F Thing univocally with the F Particulars logico-linguistic error as the genesis of the paradigm case three more likely sources for the paradigm…
Horos (Limit) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Since we turn out earlier to have said that one ought to choose the middle, not the excess nor the deficiency, and the middle is as the reason, the right , says let us analyze For in all the mentioned dispositions, just as in the others, there is a target looking to which the one who has the reason tenses or relaxes , and there is a certain horos of the middlenesses which being in accordance with the right reason we say are between the excess and…
Substitution in Aristotelian technical contexts
Plato's Parmenides
Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII. In this book, R.E. Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural …
The Greatest Difficulty for Plato’s Theory of Forms
Article The Greatest Difficulty for Plato’s Theory of Forms: the Unknowability Argument of Parmenides 133c—134c was published on January 1, 1981 in the journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (volume 63, issue 1).
A Reasonable Self-Predication Premise for the Third Man Argument
I PROPOSE a way of understanding the self-predication premise of the third man argument which Plato used against himself. The way I propose fulfills some of the desiderata for a good interpretation of Plato: it is not unreasonable by itself; it is formally consistent with the other premises of the third man, singly and jointly;' it could have seemed that the argument containing the premise was a serious threat to the theory of forms, as Plato evi…
Hot corridors, deterrence, and guardianship
Sars-CoV-2 testing and Covid-19–related primary care use among people with citizenship, permanent residency, and temporary immigration status
Interwoven immigration, health, and occupational policies place people with temporary status in circumstances of precarity and higher health risk. Reducing precarity accompanying temporary status, including regularization pathways, and decoupling access to health care from immigration status can address health inequities
Horos (Limit) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Since we turn out earlier to have said that one ought to choose the middle, not the excess nor the deficiency, and the middle is as the reason, the right , says let us analyze For in all the mentioned dispositions, just as in the others, there is a target looking to which the one who has the reason tenses or relaxes , and there is a certain horos of the middlenesses which being in accordance with the right reason we say are between the excess and…
Neighborhood Status and Delinquency Activity as Indexed by Police Records and a Self Report Survey
A Reasonable Self-Predication Premise for the Third Man Argument
I PROPOSE a way of understanding the self-predication premise of the third man argument which Plato used against himself. The way I propose fulfills some of the desiderata for a good interpretation of Plato: it is not unreasonable by itself; it is formally consistent with the other premises of the third man, singly and jointly;' it could have seemed that the argument containing the premise was a serious threat to the theory of forms, as Plato evi…
The Greatest Difficulty for Plato’s Theory of Forms
Article The Greatest Difficulty for Plato’s Theory of Forms: the Unknowability Argument of Parmenides 133c—134c was published on January 1, 1981 in the journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (volume 63, issue 1).
Substitution in Aristotelian technical contexts
Plato's Parmenides
Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII. In this book, R.E. Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural …
Horos (Limit) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Since we turn out earlier to have said that one ought to choose the middle, not the excess nor the deficiency, and the middle is as the reason, the right , says let us analyze For in all the mentioned dispositions, just as in the others, there is a target looking to which the one who has the reason tenses or relaxes , and there is a certain horos of the middlenesses which being in accordance with the right reason we say are between the excess and…
Plato on the Self-Predication of Forms
The extent of self-predication in the earlier dialogues self-predication in the Hippias Major and the Protagoras the third man the middle-dialogue forms are universals the rejection of the doctrine that the form is not an F Thing the form as an F Thing non-univocally with the F Particulars the form as an F Thing univocally with the F Particulars logico-linguistic error as the genesis of the paradigm case three more likely sources for the paradigm…
Plato's Parmenides
Plato's Parmenides: A Principle of Interpretation and Seven Arguments SANDRA PETERSON PART I. A PRINCIPLE OF INTERPRETATION 1. THE EVIDENT STRUCTURE OF THE PARMENIDES PLATO'S Parmenides falls naturally into halves. In the first half, which is a conversation between Socrates and Parmenides initiated by the young Socrates ' reaction to arguments of Zcno's, Socrates shows confusion as he tries to answer Parmenides' questions about forms. (Possibly S…
The Population's Use of Pharmaceuticals
OBJECTIVES: In this study, population-based analysis is used to study the extent to which characteristics such as age, sex, socioeconomic status, and region of residence are associated with different patterns of pharmaceutical use. It also includes an examination of whether pharmaceutical use is responsive to differential health needs across the population. RESEARCH DESIGN: Indicators of access, intensity of use, and total expenditures are used t…
Using Population-Based Data to Enhance Clinical Practice Guideline Development
OBJECTIVES: Working with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, and using tonsillectomies as a basis of inquiry, MCHPE examined surgical rates and patterns of practice. This project had three major aims: to review whether current patterns of delivery provide optimal care; to enhance the development of clinical guidelines; and to inform and influence physician practice. RESEARCH DESIGN: Both a population-based method of inquiry (which…
Assessing the Extent to Which Hospitals Are Used for Acute Care Purposes
OBJECTIVES: The degree to which Manitobans were appropriately hospitalized for medical conditions was assessed using a retrospective chart review of a sample of patients in 26 hospitals. RESEARCH DESIGN: A standardized set of object-based, nondiagnostic criteria (Inter-Qual) was used by trained abstractors to assess the patient at admission and for each day of stay. RESULTS: A high percentage of admissions and days of care were inappropriate. Ove…
Waiting Times for Surgical Procedures
OBJECTIVES: Polls show that nearly two thirds of Canadians believe that waiting times prior to surgery have increased in recent years. A study was undertaken in Manitoba to determine whether public perceptions about long and increasing waits were valid. RESEARCH DESIGN: Using administrative data, waiting times for 10 types of surgery-ranging from coronary artery bypass surgery and mastectomy to cataract surgery and hernia repairs-were studied ove…
The Language Game in Plato’s Parmenides
New Rounds of the Exercise of Plato’s Parmenides
Hot corridors, deterrence, and guardianship
Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato
In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in f…
Patient Activation in Primary Healthcare
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Current policy directions place increasing expectations on patients to actively engage in their care, especially in chronic disease management. We examined relationships between patient activation and multiple dimensions of primary healthcare (PHC), including access, utilization, responsiveness, interpersonal communication, and satisfaction for patients with and without chronic illness. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional, …
Admission to hospital for pneumonia and influenza attributable to 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 Influenza in First Nations communities in three provinces of Canada
We found an increased risk for pH1N1-related hospital admissions for First Nations communities in all 3 provinces. Interprovincial differences may be partly explained by differences in age structure and socioeconomic status. We were unable to confirm the assumption that remote communities were at higher risk for pH1N1-associated hospitalizations. The aggressive approach to influenza control in remote and isolated First Nations communities in Onta…
Classifying Physician Practice Style
BACKGROUND: Primary medical care is changing-more female providers, desire for better work-life balance, and increasing availability of walk-in clinics have altered service delivery. There is no uniform physician practice style, and understanding service availability and delivery requires analysis of family physicians' practice patterns, rather than just physician counts. METHODS: This paper offers a new approach for describing the practice habit…
Predicting the Cost of Health Care Services
BACKGROUND: Case-mix systems and comorbidity indices aggregate clinical information about patients over time and are used to characterize need for health care services. These tools were validated for their original purpose, but those purposes are varied, and they have not been compared directly in the context of predicting costs of health care services. OBJECTIVE: To compare predictions of next-year health care service costs across 4 tools, inclu…
Do changes in primary care service use over time differ by neighbourhood income? Population-based longitudinal study in British Columbia, Canada
Results raise concerns that equity in access to primary care has deteriorated in BC. Reforms to primary care that fail to attend to the multidimensional needs of low-income communities may entrench existing inequities. Policies that tailor patterns of funding and allocation of resources in accordance with population needs, and that align accountability measures with equity objectives are needed as part of further reform efforts
Sars-CoV-2 testing and Covid-19–related primary care use among people with citizenship, permanent residency, and temporary immigration status
Interwoven immigration, health, and occupational policies place people with temporary status in circumstances of precarity and higher health risk. Reducing precarity accompanying temporary status, including regularization pathways, and decoupling access to health care from immigration status can address health inequities
The relationship between neighbourhood income and youth mental health service use differs by immigration experience
Mental health service use was substantially lower among immigrant youth than non-immigrant youth, but higher proportions of immigrant youth were hospitalized involuntarily. The reverse income gradient patterns observed for community-mental health service use are noteworthy and suggest significant barriers to accessing preventable care among immigrant youth, particularly those living in lower-income neighbourhoods
Change in Hospital Risk-Standardized Stroke Mortality Performance With and Without the Passive Surveillance Stroke Severity Score
BACKGROUND: Adjustment for baseline stroke severity is necessary for accurate assessment of hospital performance. We evaluated whether adjusting for the Passive Surveillance Stroke SeVerity (PaSSV) score, a measure of stroke severity derived using administrative data, changed hospital-specific estimated 30-day risk-standardized mortality rate (RSMR) after stroke. METHODS: We used linked administrative data to identify adults who were hospitalized…
Impacts of local, provincial, and federal immigration policies on health and social services access among women with precarious immigration status
Sanctuary City policies are recommended to advance im/migrants' human rights, reduce instances of delayed or denied care, untreated illnesses, and social isolation. Full implementation of Sanctuary principles at the local level (i.e., reduced collaboration between local service providers and federal immigration enforcement) is needed to improve access to health and other services based on need, regardless of immigration status. At the provincial …
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