Anita Kothari
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3917699 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anita Kothari |
| PRENOMES | Anita |
| SOBRENOME | Kothari |
| ASSINATURA | KOTHARI A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1533-6976 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
An international and interdisciplinary framework for nature prescribing in healthcare
Nature prescriptions allow healthcare providers to recommend nature connection and exposure for health and well-being benefits. However, an accepted interdisciplinary shared definition of nature prescription is currently lacking, as are frameworks to guide the use of nature prescription in healthcare. To help fill this knowledge gap, we used an international modified Delphi technique to develop a framework for nature prescribing in healthcare by …
Walking a tightrope
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and health agencies were responsible for communicating vital information to the public. To effectively communicate the severity of the situation and to encourage the public to follow recommendations, best practices for public communication during emergencies often emphasize two objectives: building trust and being transparent. Doing so can require communicators to “walk a tightrope,” where the success…
Mental health and workplace wellbeing among Frontline healthcare providers who provide HIV care to children, adolescents and their families
Frontline healthcare providers (HCPs) are critical to the paediatric-adolescent HIV response in Africa, yet their mental health and workplace wellbeing remain underexplored. We conducted a mixed-methods study with 617 frontline HCP who provide HIV services to children and adolescents in 12 high-prevalence African countries. Participants completed a cross-sectional survey assessing depression, work-related quality of life, empowerment, job satisfa…
A scoping review of frameworks that guide race and ethnicity data collection in health settings
A qualitative study examining the experiences of people who use drugs in supportive housing in London, Ontario
Background Since 2016, London, Ontario has experienced increasing numbers of opioid overdoses and overdose related deaths. Supportive housing agencies have been especially impacted, experiencing an 890% increase in opioid overdose from 2018-2021. A coalition was formed between London housing agencies and our research team to better understand the perspective of precariously housed participants who use drugs on existing substance use and overdose …
A multi-method evaluation of how equity deserving communities were engaged in research
This evaluation found that building authentic relationships between the OPTimise research team and participants was key in the early phases of the OPTimise study. Researchers on future projects could benefit from developing working relationships with organizations who can connect with the target audience to facilitate trust building between researchers and engagement participants, especially in virtual environments
Expériences de soins en télésanté lors de la pandémie de Covid-19
La pandémie de COVID-19 a engendré de profonds changements dans les modalités de prestation des soins de santé, notamment l’adoption rapide de la télésanté. Bien que certaines études aient exploré les avantages et les défis liés à la télésanté en contexte de pandémie, peu d’études se sont penchées sur les expériences de soins en télésanté d’individus vivant avec des troubles de santé mentale et des maladies physiques chroniques. Cet article propo…
Exploring variations in the implementation of a health system level policy intervention to improve maternal and child health outcomes in resource limited settings
Background Despite growing literature, few studies have explored the implementation of policy interventions to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Even fewer studies explicitly articulate the theoretical approaches used to understand contextual influences on policy implementation. This under-use of theory may account for the limited understanding of the variations in implementation processes and ou…
Moving Knowledge into Action Through Communities of Practice
This monograph reports the results of a three-year multiple case study of nine knowledge-to-action (KTA) initiatives mobilized in communities of practice (C0Ps) operating in Ontario's seniors' health system. A multiple case study design was used to conduct nine case studies through a combination of case study and ethnographic methods. Deductive analytical methods were used to answer two broad research questions about the KTA processes mobilized t…
Community organization perspectives on Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and how they increased Covid-19 vaccine confidence
Background: COVID-19 vaccines play a critical role in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and despite vaccine availability, disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Canadian subgroups exist. Community organizations are uniquely situated to relay important vaccine messaging around all vaccines, understand components of vaccine hesitancy, and facilitate vaccine uptake within the communities they serve. The …
Exploring communication by public health leaders and organizations during the pandemic
Research Co‐Production in Healthcare
Research Co-Production in Health and Social Care
Supporting successful communities of practice for older adults
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are a powerful strategy for supporting knowledge sharing amongst members working in a common field. Information, knowledge and evidence in the field of older adult healthcare and aging have grown exponentially over the past decade. This study reports results from a secondary qualitative analysis of ethnographic data to explore the cultural factors of two CoPs that members perceived to promote and constrain success. …
Creating an action plan to advance knowledge translation in a domestic violence research network
Background: There is limited research on how knowledge translation of a domestic violence (DV) research network is shared. This lack of research is problematic because of the complexity of establishing a research network, encompassing diverse disciplines, methods, and focus of study potentially impacting how knowledge translation functions. Aims and objectives: To address the limited research, we completed a deliberative dialogue with the followi…
Quality home care for persons living with dementia
There is a global need to understand how the quality of home care for persons living with dementia is perceived by their most frequent formal caregivers, personal support workers (PSW), especially given the expected rise in the prevalence of dementia. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of PSW regarding what constitutes quality home care for persons with dementia. Qualitative content analysis was undertaken to interpret semi-stru…
The use of research in public health policy
The use of robust research findings in public health policy has been strongly encouraged for bridging the evidence-policy gap. To assess and further promote evidence uptake, understanding how research evidence is being used by decision makers is very important. This systematic review examined primary studies exploring the use of research evidence in public health policy published between 2010 and January 2016; this work extended Orton et al’s (20…
Exploring the knowledge translation of domestic violence research
There is growing recognition of the links between knowledge translation, policy and practice, particularly in the domestic violence research area. A literature review applying a systematic approach with a realist lens was the preferred methodology. The review answered the following question: What are the mechanisms of change in research networks which 'work' to support knowledge translation? A search of eight electronic databases for articles pub…
The dark side of coproduction
BACKGROUND: Coproduction, a collaborative model of research that includes stakeholders in the research process, has been widely advocated as a means of facilitating research use and impact. We summarise the arguments in favour of coproduction, the different approaches to establishing coproductive work and their costs, and offer some advice as to when and how to consider coproduction. DEBATE: Despite the multiplicity of reasons and incentives to c…
Building and diversifying our interdisciplinary giants
Collaboration between Local Public Health Units and Regional Health Authorities in Canada for Integrated Health System Planning Using a Population Health Approach
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)
Identifying and understanding research impact
Background: Occupational science continues to be a transformative science, providing knowledge that has potential for social and policy change in relation to occupational inequities. However, as researchers become more dependent on funding and funders seek to identify value for their investment, there is a clear need to consider research findings in the occupational science context of impact on participation and health and well-being outcomes.Obj…
Organizational level indicators to address health equity work in local public health agencies
Comparing views about evidence in Ontario public health units
Background: ways of perceiving evidence by public health managers, practitioners and policymakers is one of the key determinants of evidence uptake. Recent public health policy in Ontario requires programmes to be based on evidence. Therefore, understanding views about evidence in both practice and policy contexts is important to bridge the research-policy-practice gap in public health. Objective and methods: this qualitative descriptive study ex…
Research agenda for integrated knowledge translation (IKT) in healthcare
In the health sector, considerable resources are deployed for knowledge translation (KT) to ensure that stakeholders are aware of, and use research to inform policies, programmes and practices, leading to improved health.1 However, commonly used strategies, often based on one-way communication of research syntheses or summaries, have had inconsistent impact on the actual use of research and associated outcomes such as improved healthcare delivery…
Cross-sector Service Provision in Health and Social Care
Findings aligned closely with the work done by Sloper and raise red flags related to reinventing what is already known. Future researchers should look to explore novel areas rather than looking into areas that have been explored at length. Evaluations of out-comes related to cross-sector service provision are still needed before any claims about effectiveness can be made
Increasing capacity for knowledge translation
The potential for research to influence policy, and for researchers to influence policy actors, is significant. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of health services researchers engaging in (or not able to engage in) policy-relevant research. Semi-structured telephone interviews were completed with 23 experienced researchers. The results paint a complex and dynamic picture of the policy environment and the relati…
Integrated knowledge translation
BACKGROUND: Integrated knowledge translation has risen in popularity as a solution to the underuse of research in policy and practice settings. It engages knowledge users-policymakers, practitioners, patients/consumers or their advocates, and members of the wider public-in mutually beneficial research that can involve the joint development of research questions, data collection, analysis and dissemination of findings. Knowledge that is co-produce…
Building and diversifying our interdisciplinary giants
Divided and disconnected — An examination of youths’ experiences with emotional distress within the context of their everyday lives
This paper is based on a qualitative study conducted in a rural community in British Columbia, Canada. Ethnographic methods were used to: (1) to bring youth voice to the literature on emotional distress; and (2) to capture the ways in which context shapes young peoples' experiences of emotional distress within their everyday lives. Our findings demonstrate how socio-structural contextual factors such as the local economy, geographical segregation…
Getting to the Root of the Problem
Extending collaborations for knowledge translation
The purpose of this paper is to expand the current focus on researcher–decision maker knowledge translation (KT) partnerships to include community partners. Lessons were drawn from the community-based participatory research literature. An inductive thematic analysis was conducted, using 42 eligible articles, and resulted in the identification of four themes (principles, structure, process and relationships) and associated factors that could contr…
Research agenda for integrated knowledge translation (IKT) in healthcare
In the health sector, considerable resources are deployed for knowledge translation (KT) to ensure that stakeholders are aware of, and use research to inform policies, programmes and practices, leading to improved health.1 However, commonly used strategies, often based on one-way communication of research syntheses or summaries, have had inconsistent impact on the actual use of research and associated outcomes such as improved healthcare delivery…
The role of non-governmental organizations in global health diplomacy
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an exemplar result of global health diplomacy, based on its global reach (binding on all World Health Organization member nations) and its negotiation process. The FCTC negotiations are one of the first examples of various states and non-state entities coming together to create a legally binding tool to govern global health. They have demonstrated that diplomacy, once consigned to interactions…
Linking Research to Action for Youth Violence Prevention
Tobacco Control Interest Groups and Their Influence on Parliamentary Committees in Canada
Research and Knowledge in Ontario Tobacco Control Networks
Fostering interactions
English The purpose of the study on which this article is based was to determine the current extent of linkages among Canadian community health nursing researchers and decision makers and to identify perceptions around the structure and function of potential networks. A qualitative research design was utilised to develop common themes across focus groups, a workshop and key informant interviews. The findings suggest that there is a need for a for…
Individual and Regional Determinants of Mammography Uptake
Individual and Regional Determinants of Mammography Uptake
Fostering interactions
English The purpose of the study on which this article is based was to determine the current extent of linkages among Canadian community health nursing researchers and decision makers and to identify perceptions around the structure and function of potential networks. A qualitative research design was utilised to develop common themes across focus groups, a workshop and key informant interviews. The findings suggest that there is a need for a for…
Research and Knowledge in Ontario Tobacco Control Networks
Increasing capacity for knowledge translation
The potential for research to influence policy, and for researchers to influence policy actors, is significant. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of health services researchers engaging in (or not able to engage in) policy-relevant research. Semi-structured telephone interviews were completed with 23 experienced researchers. The results paint a complex and dynamic picture of the policy environment and the relati…
Tobacco Control Interest Groups and Their Influence on Parliamentary Committees in Canada
Extending collaborations for knowledge translation
The purpose of this paper is to expand the current focus on researcher–decision maker knowledge translation (KT) partnerships to include community partners. Lessons were drawn from the community-based participatory research literature. An inductive thematic analysis was conducted, using 42 eligible articles, and resulted in the identification of four themes (principles, structure, process and relationships) and associated factors that could contr…
The role of non-governmental organizations in global health diplomacy
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an exemplar result of global health diplomacy, based on its global reach (binding on all World Health Organization member nations) and its negotiation process. The FCTC negotiations are one of the first examples of various states and non-state entities coming together to create a legally binding tool to govern global health. They have demonstrated that diplomacy, once consigned to interactions…
Social determinants of health in Canada
The paucity of initiatives in British Columbia and Ontario that address healthy eating and active living through action on the social determinants of health is problematic. In the context of Canada's increasingly neoliberal political and economic policy, the public health sector may face significant barriers to addressing upstream determinants in a meaningful way. If public health cannot directly affect broader societal conditions, interventions …
Chronic disease prevention policy in British Columbia and Ontario in light of public health renewal
The two provincial policies present different approaches to support the implementation of related programs. Differences may be related to contextual factors such as program delivery structures and different philosophical approaches underlying the two frameworks. These differences and possible explanations for them are important to understand because they serve to contextualize the differences in health outcomes across the two provinces that might…
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Getting to the Root of the Problem
Linking Research to Action for Youth Violence Prevention
Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) in health care
BACKGROUND: Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) refers to collaboration between researchers and decision-makers. While advocated as an approach for enhancing the relevance and use of research, IKT is challenging and inconsistently applied. This study sought to inform future IKT practice and research by synthesizing studies that empirically evaluated IKT and identifying knowledge gaps. METHODS: We performed a scoping review. We searched MEDLINE…
Divided and disconnected — An examination of youths’ experiences with emotional distress within the context of their everyday lives
This paper is based on a qualitative study conducted in a rural community in British Columbia, Canada. Ethnographic methods were used to: (1) to bring youth voice to the literature on emotional distress; and (2) to capture the ways in which context shapes young peoples' experiences of emotional distress within their everyday lives. Our findings demonstrate how socio-structural contextual factors such as the local economy, geographical segregation…
Moving towards a new vision
Multiple factors influenced public health policy implementation. Results provide empirical support for components of Greenhalgh et al's framework and suggest two additional components - the role of external organizational collaborations and partnerships as well as planning processes in influencing implementation. These are important to consider by government and public health organizations when promoting new or revised public health policies as t…
Cross-sector Service Provision in Health and Social Care
Findings aligned closely with the work done by Sloper and raise red flags related to reinventing what is already known. Future researchers should look to explore novel areas rather than looking into areas that have been explored at length. Evaluations of out-comes related to cross-sector service provision are still needed before any claims about effectiveness can be made
Identifying and understanding research impact
Background: Occupational science continues to be a transformative science, providing knowledge that has potential for social and policy change in relation to occupational inequities. However, as researchers become more dependent on funding and funders seek to identify value for their investment, there is a clear need to consider research findings in the occupational science context of impact on participation and health and well-being outcomes.Obj…
Organizational level indicators to address health equity work in local public health agencies
Comparing views about evidence in Ontario public health units
Background: ways of perceiving evidence by public health managers, practitioners and policymakers is one of the key determinants of evidence uptake. Recent public health policy in Ontario requires programmes to be based on evidence. Therefore, understanding views about evidence in both practice and policy contexts is important to bridge the research-policy-practice gap in public health. Objective and methods: this qualitative descriptive study ex…
Research agenda for integrated knowledge translation (IKT) in healthcare
In the health sector, considerable resources are deployed for knowledge translation (KT) to ensure that stakeholders are aware of, and use research to inform policies, programmes and practices, leading to improved health.1 However, commonly used strategies, often based on one-way communication of research syntheses or summaries, have had inconsistent impact on the actual use of research and associated outcomes such as improved healthcare delivery…
Integrated knowledge translation
BACKGROUND: Integrated knowledge translation has risen in popularity as a solution to the underuse of research in policy and practice settings. It engages knowledge users-policymakers, practitioners, patients/consumers or their advocates, and members of the wider public-in mutually beneficial research that can involve the joint development of research questions, data collection, analysis and dissemination of findings. Knowledge that is co-produce…
Collaboration between Local Public Health Units and Regional Health Authorities in Canada for Integrated Health System Planning Using a Population Health Approach
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 dark side of coproduction
BACKGROUND: Coproduction, a collaborative model of research that includes stakeholders in the research process, has been widely advocated as a means of facilitating research use and impact. We summarise the arguments in favour of coproduction, the different approaches to establishing coproductive work and their costs, and offer some advice as to when and how to consider coproduction. DEBATE: Despite the multiplicity of reasons and incentives to c…
Building and diversifying our interdisciplinary giants
The use of research in public health policy
The use of robust research findings in public health policy has been strongly encouraged for bridging the evidence-policy gap. To assess and further promote evidence uptake, understanding how research evidence is being used by decision makers is very important. This systematic review examined primary studies exploring the use of research evidence in public health policy published between 2010 and January 2016; this work extended Orton et al’s (20…
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