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1	A Mixed Methods Study of the Factors that Enhance and Challenge Food Security, Fruit and Vegetable Access and Consumption, and the Uptake and Management of the Ottawa Good Food Box Lecompte, Emily M. January 2016 (has links) Individuals who are disadvantaged by low-income and/ or minority status face a number of barriers to experiencing optimal health and eating well. Twenty Aboriginal and 29 non-Aboriginal participants (N = 49) from Ottawa, Canada took part in a cross-sectional, mixed methods study and completed one questionnaire and single in-depth interview that verified: 1) food security status and household eating habits, 2) fruit and vegetable purchase and consumption, and 3) knowledge about or participation in the Good Food Box [GFB] Program. Ottawa GFB staff (n = 5), site coordinators (n = 6) and steering committee members (n = 3) took part in separate discussion groups to identify challenges and strengths related to program coordination, management and delivery. Within an ecological framework, qualitative data is discussed using a social phenomenological and thematic approach. Using χ2 analyses, results suggest a medium effect size and association between food security status and Aboriginal identity (χ2(1) = 8.04, p < 0.01; φ = 0.4) and satisfaction with how stores meet household food needs and gender (χ2(1) = 5.86, p < 0.05; φ = 0.36). A relationship between participation in the GFB Program and food security status (χ2(1) = 11.13, p < 0.01; φ = 0.48) is also shown where estimates suggest that GFB customers are 9.9 times more likely to be food secure compared to non-affiliates. ANOVA results and post-hoc tests demonstrate a significant mean difference in frequency of fruit consumption between GFB customers and non-program users (F(2, 46) = 11.29, p = 0.00) where 29.6% of the variance (ω2 = 0.296) is explained by program participation. Results-based and community-driven recommendations to improve access to healthy food, food security and the GFB Program are discussed as shared responsibilities between different levels of government across sectors and the community since these are public and social health issues, determinants of health and economic concerns. Implications of findings are also discussed. Food security fruit and vegetable consumption Community food programs fruits and vegetables Mixed methods Good Food Box Program Community needs assessment
2	Governing Through Competency: Race, Pathologization, and the Limits of Mental Health Outreach Tam, Louise 29 November 2012 (has links) This thesis examines how cultural competency operates as a regime of governmentality. Inspired by Foucauldian genealogy, institutional ethnography, and Said’s concept of contrapuntality, this thesis problematizes the seamless production of racialized bodies in relation to mental disorder. I begin by elaborating a theoretical framework for interpreting race and madness as mutually constructed ordering practices. I then analyze what cultural competence produces and sustains in a position paper published by the Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs. I argue the Federation dismisses ongoing institutional violence—suggesting it is simply the perception, as opposed to the everyday reality, of discrimination that causes problems such as low educational attainment among youth of colour. To further support this claim, I deconstruct narratives of low self-esteem, maladaptive coping, depression, and denial of mental illness in the community needs assessments of two of the Federation’s member organizations: Hong Fook and Across Boundaries. construction of mental disorder racial governmentality immigrant women minority youth cultural competency cross-cultural mental health Brief Symptom Inventory community needs assessment Postcolonial Studies institutional ethnography Disability Studies race deviance depression self-esteem madness oppression as disease anti-racism health equity antipsychiatry feminist Foucauldian genealogy contrapuntal reading psychiatric survivors multicultural practice technologies of the self social organization of mental health 0631 0453 0703 0339 0385
3	Governing Through Competency: Race, Pathologization, and the Limits of Mental Health Outreach Tam, Louise 29 November 2012 (has links) This thesis examines how cultural competency operates as a regime of governmentality. Inspired by Foucauldian genealogy, institutional ethnography, and Said’s concept of contrapuntality, this thesis problematizes the seamless production of racialized bodies in relation to mental disorder. I begin by elaborating a theoretical framework for interpreting race and madness as mutually constructed ordering practices. I then analyze what cultural competence produces and sustains in a position paper published by the Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs. I argue the Federation dismisses ongoing institutional violence—suggesting it is simply the perception, as opposed to the everyday reality, of discrimination that causes problems such as low educational attainment among youth of colour. To further support this claim, I deconstruct narratives of low self-esteem, maladaptive coping, depression, and denial of mental illness in the community needs assessments of two of the Federation’s member organizations: Hong Fook and Across Boundaries. construction of mental disorder racial governmentality immigrant women minority youth cultural competency cross-cultural mental health Brief Symptom Inventory community needs assessment Postcolonial Studies institutional ethnography Disability Studies race deviance depression self-esteem madness oppression as disease anti-racism health equity antipsychiatry feminist Foucauldian genealogy contrapuntal reading psychiatric survivors multicultural practice technologies of the self social organization of mental health 0631 0453 0703 0339 0385

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