Ottawa 1986 revisited

Ottawa 1986: back to the future.

When Ottawa’s starting pistol was fired in the snow blizzards of November 1986, who would have thought that the health promotion race would have sped so long and so hard without roads? Across the world, there are government health promotion strategies and reviews, statutory authorities and foundations, consumer interest groups, professional associations and journals. University departments and ...

Ottawa revisited: 'enable, mediate and advocate'.

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion represents a turning point in public health thinking. The key messages and approaches, such as 'enabling, mediating and advocating', of this historical paper have not lost their timeliness and they are still considered to be the lessons for those health policy-makers who are willing to move beyond the health sector and to push health higher on the politic...

Epidemiology of infectious syphilis in Ottawa. Recurring themes revisited.

OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology of an outbreak of infectious syphilis in Ottawa. METHODS A retrospective chart review of infectious syphilis cases in Ottawa from 2001-2006. RESULTS Rates of syphilis have risen more than tenfold. The epidemic was centered in men, with the majority of cases (83.5%) occurring among men who have sex with men (MSM). These individuals differed from the ge...

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QUICKSELECT Revisited

We give an overview of the running time analysis of the random divide-and-conquer algorithm FIND or QUICKSELECT. The results concern moments, distribution of FIND’s running time, the limiting distribution, a stochastic bound and the key: a stochastic fixed point equation.