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I Rootman

Publications and source records attributed to I Rootman.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1999

Implications of health promotion for integrated health systems.

Summarizes key conclusions and recommendations found in the Centre for Health Promotion's position paper on the role of health promotion within integrated health systems. The original position paper was based on advice received from a working group of organizations and practitioners interested in health promotion. This group was established to formulate recommendations for the government of the Province of Ontario, which was in the process of reforming its system of health care delivery.

Community Participation↗
PubMed1998

A prelude to health for all.

A seminal report produced in Canada during 1974 has helped to diminish the dominance of the medical model for health systems.

Canada↗
PubMed1996

Smoking among disadvantaged women: causes and cessation.

This study aimed to identify social-psychological factors associated with smoking and smoking cessation among disadvantaged women. Individual and group interviews were conducted with disadvantaged women in Atlantic Canada. Participants were predominantly poor, unemployed, geographically isolated, and single parents. The factors associated with smoking included coping with stresses, loneliness, powerlessness, low self-efficacy, social pressures, and addiction. Support from peers (i.e., women in similar circumstances) and partners was considered important. Health professionals and traditional cessation programs were not perceived as supportive. Participants viewed women's centres and women's agencies as appropriate deliverers of cessation programs. Methodological issues are discussed.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1986

Development of a national health promotion survey: the Canadian experience.

This paper discusses the development of a national health promotion survey in Canada carried out in June 1985. It does so by describing the events leading up to and surrounding 15 milestones, the last one being the release of the results of the survey in February 1987. A number of lessons are drawn from the experience to date. They include the need to allocate enough time to plan the survey; the need to maintain continuity of staff; the benefits of forming an analysis team; the value of advisory groups; the value of adjusting sampling to political requirements; and the need for researchers and programme people to work together. It is expected that additional lessons will be learned as the process continues and as the survey is repeated in 1988.

Canada↗
PubMed1985

A comparison of alcohol, tobacco and drug use as determined from household and school surveys.

Comparisons of results from different types of surveys are necessary to establish the best and cheapest methods of assessing drug use. This paper reports results from a school survey and a household survey conducted in Ontario. Both surveys were done in 1983 and used unbiased samples of the population in the same age groups. There are some methodological differences between the two studies. Younger students were more likely to report the use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis in the student survey than in the household survey. Similarly, older students (18 and 19) reported more alcohol use in the student survey. In general, the results indicate that respondents are more likely to give socially desirable answers to questions answered at home than at school. Also, alcohol and drug users may be more likely to be missed in household than in school studies as the former have a much higher non-response rate.

Adolescent↗