The study of molecular plant-pathogen interactions is a very active field of research in Canadian universities and research centers. This is not surprising given that the Canadian economy is tightly bound to food crops and forest resources for domestic use and export. The goal of this mini-review is to provide an overview of the excellent research that is being done on this topic in Canada. The...

Despite acknowledging the importance of knowledge translation (KT), the occupational therapy profession has demonstrated only emerging KT activity. Organizations are seen as playing an important role in supporting KT. To date, there have been no known attempts to explore KT activities conducted by occupational therapy organizations in Canada. The purpose of this study was to identify and descri...

This paper uses the Medline biomedical papers database to measure scientific production on mental health in the workplace (MHWP) during the 1991"2002 period at the world, Canadian, provincial, urban, institutional and researcher levels. The level of scientific output has doubled at the world level and tripled at the Canadian level during the last 12 years. At the provincial level, Ontario, Queb...

This paper examines professors’ perceptions of internationalization activities at Canadian universities using the findings Academic Profession in Knowledge-based Society (APIKS) survey. The suggest academic disciplines are organizing logic for diverse manifestations within same universities. Professors hard sciences more likely to publish internationally while those arts and humanities internat...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of daily cigarette use among Canadian undergraduates. Estimates are also compared to earlier Ontario surveys. METHODS Data are drawn from the Canadian Campus Survey, a national mail survey, conducted in the fall of 1998, with a random sample of 7,800 students from 16 universities. RESULTS Overall, 17.1% reported daily cigarette smoking and 10.4% reported...

Biomaterials research in Canada began in the 1960s. Over the past four decades significant contributions have been made across a broad spectrum covering dental, orthopaedic, cardiovascular, neuro, and ocular biomaterials. Canadians have also been active in the derivative area of tissue engineering. Biomaterials laboratories are now established in universities and research institutes from coast ...

The development of a pan-Canadian network of primary care research networks for studying issues in primary care has been the vision of Canadian primary care researchers for many years. With the opportunity for funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the support of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, we have planned and developed a project to assess the feasibility of a netwo...

Career planning, decision making about specialty choice, and preparation for residency matching are significant sources of stress for medical students. Attempts have been made to structure and formalize career advising by including it in accreditation standards. There is an expressed need for national guidelines on career advising for medical students. The Future of Medical Education in Canada ...

If the 2010 CPHA conference is a bellwether of mainstream Canadian public and global health practice, its dearth of human rights papers suggests that, outside a small scholarly cohort, human rights remain marginal therein. This potential 'rights gap' conflicts with growing recognition of the relationship between health and human rights and ergo, the importance of human rights education for heal...