Javier Mignone
Javier Mignone is professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of Manitoba. He holds a Masters equivalent degree in Psychology, a Masters in Health Services administration, and a Ph.D. in Community Health Sciences. Dr. Mignone teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, including program evaluation, and social development. On a regular basis he leads workshops on health information and program evaluation for NGOs, including Indigenous organizations in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Dominica, and Guatemala. Dr. Mignone conducts research and development projects on intercultural health and health information with indigenous partners in Guatemala, Colombia, Argentina, Dominica and Canada. As well, he is and has been involved in HIV prevention interventions and research in India, Colombia, and Canada. Dr. Mignone is the author of approximately 90 peer-reviewed publications, aside from numerous reports to government and other organizations. He has held numerous research and development grants from different funding bodies such as, CIHR, CIDA, SSHRC, Inter-American Development Bank, and the Public Health Agency of Canada. He leads the Program and Policy Evaluation Research Group at the university.
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psychological complications such as psychosis. National survey data point to increasing rates of methamphetamine use, as well as increasing ease of access and serious methamphetamine-related harms. There is an urgent need for evidence to address knowledge gaps, provide direction to harm reduction and treatment efforts and inform health and social policies for people using methamphetamine. This protocol describes a study that aims to address this need for evidence.
Validation of the efficacy of health-enhancement products and drugs from plants and other bio-resources is predicated on diligent and intensive research accompanied by rigorous and conclusive clinical trials.
Africa has eminently qualified human resources but due to the finance-intensive nature of medical research, individual African states on their own cannot fund the level of research desired for dealing with such serious issues as the COVID-19 pandemic. A collaboration among African states guided by a Mutual Pan-African support paradigm (MPASP) is a unique strategy for achieving success in any such a high-impact global project as the use of traditional medicine against COVID-19 and emerging pandemics; and this is hereby advocated.
few studies examining the broader influence of such interventions for young children on the lives of their parents. This article describes the findings of a qualitative study exploring the perceptions and experiences of parents whose children attend an Abecedarian early intervention program located in an urban social housing complex. Eighteen parents whose children had attended the program for a minimum of one year were interviewed. The main themes that emerged were: strengthened relationships between parents and program staff, as well as between parents themselves, particularly supported through the home visitor; increased awareness among parents about early development and of their role in supporting child development; and opportunities for parents’ personal growth. The findings suggest that high quality early child intervention programs, such as the Abecedarian Approach, can positively impact the lives of parents.
have received little attention. The objective of this study was to identify the predictors of satisfaction with prenatal care.
Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational design was used to examine the relationships between expectations, interpersonal processes of care, the quality of prenatal care, personal characteristics, and the type of provider with overall satisfaction, and with four dimensions of satisfaction. A convenience sample of 216 pregnant women was surveyed using
self-administered questionnaires with women in their third trimester. Multiple linear regression analyses were used to identify predictors of satisfaction.
Results The quality of prenatal care and provider interpersonal style together explained 80% of the variance in overall satisfaction. Patient-centered decision-making was a significant predictor of satisfaction with information, while having a
midwife was a predictor of satisfaction with system characteristics. Expectations were not related to satisfaction.
Conclusions for Practice: Improving quality of care, provider interpersonal style and patient-centered decision making, and improving the structural characteristics of prenatal care may be effective in improving women’s satisfaction and utilization
of prenatal care.
psychological complications such as psychosis. National survey data point to increasing rates of methamphetamine use, as well as increasing ease of access and serious methamphetamine-related harms. There is an urgent need for evidence to address knowledge gaps, provide direction to harm reduction and treatment efforts and inform health and social policies for people using methamphetamine. This protocol describes a study that aims to address this need for evidence.
Validation of the efficacy of health-enhancement products and drugs from plants and other bio-resources is predicated on diligent and intensive research accompanied by rigorous and conclusive clinical trials.
Africa has eminently qualified human resources but due to the finance-intensive nature of medical research, individual African states on their own cannot fund the level of research desired for dealing with such serious issues as the COVID-19 pandemic. A collaboration among African states guided by a Mutual Pan-African support paradigm (MPASP) is a unique strategy for achieving success in any such a high-impact global project as the use of traditional medicine against COVID-19 and emerging pandemics; and this is hereby advocated.
few studies examining the broader influence of such interventions for young children on the lives of their parents. This article describes the findings of a qualitative study exploring the perceptions and experiences of parents whose children attend an Abecedarian early intervention program located in an urban social housing complex. Eighteen parents whose children had attended the program for a minimum of one year were interviewed. The main themes that emerged were: strengthened relationships between parents and program staff, as well as between parents themselves, particularly supported through the home visitor; increased awareness among parents about early development and of their role in supporting child development; and opportunities for parents’ personal growth. The findings suggest that high quality early child intervention programs, such as the Abecedarian Approach, can positively impact the lives of parents.
have received little attention. The objective of this study was to identify the predictors of satisfaction with prenatal care.
Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational design was used to examine the relationships between expectations, interpersonal processes of care, the quality of prenatal care, personal characteristics, and the type of provider with overall satisfaction, and with four dimensions of satisfaction. A convenience sample of 216 pregnant women was surveyed using
self-administered questionnaires with women in their third trimester. Multiple linear regression analyses were used to identify predictors of satisfaction.
Results The quality of prenatal care and provider interpersonal style together explained 80% of the variance in overall satisfaction. Patient-centered decision-making was a significant predictor of satisfaction with information, while having a
midwife was a predictor of satisfaction with system characteristics. Expectations were not related to satisfaction.
Conclusions for Practice: Improving quality of care, provider interpersonal style and patient-centered decision making, and improving the structural characteristics of prenatal care may be effective in improving women’s satisfaction and utilization
of prenatal care.