Social Ecological Models of Health: Palliative care

This article nicely explains the socio-ecological model and its origins. Reference: Kilanowski, J. F. (2017). Breadth of the socio-ecological model. Journal of Agromedicine. https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924x.2017.1358971

This article describes what we know about the effectiveness of four of the Ottawa Charter health promotion strategies from eight reviews that have been conducted since 1999. Reference: Jackson, S. F., Perkins, F., Khandor, E., Cordwell, L., Hamann, S., & Buasai, S. (2006). Integrated Health Promotion Strategies: A contribution to tackling current and future health challenges. Health Promotion International, 21(suppl_1), 75–83. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dal054

This TED talk describes aging globally. Reference: (2013). TED Blog. Retrieved October 29, 2022, from https://blog.ted.com/what-its-like-to-grow-old-in-different-parts-of-the-world/.

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Quinn, K. L., Stukel, T., Stall, N. M., Huang, A., Isenberg, S., Tanuseputro, P., Goldman, R., Cram, P., Kavalieratos, D., Detsky, A. S., & Bell, C. M. (2020). Association between palliative care and healthcare outcomes among adults with terminal non-cancer illness: Population based matched Cohort Study. BMJ, m2257. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2257

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Quach and colleagues reviewed deaths in Canada between 2013-2016 and discovered that recent immigrants (those who became Canadian citizens after 1985) were 1.2 times more likely to seek acute care treatment in the hospital setting at the end of their lives and were 1.1 times more likely to die in hospital than people who resided in Canada longer, despite equal expression of wishes to die at home. Reference: Quach, B. I., Qureshi, D., Talarico, R., Hsu, A. T., & Tanuseputro, P. (2021). Comparison of end-of-life care between recent immigrants and long-standing residents in Ontario, Canada. JAMA Network Open, 4(11). https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.32397

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McDonald, Erica & Quick, Matthew & Oremus, Mark. (2020). Examining the Association between Community-Level Marginalization and Emergency Room Wait Time in Ontario, Canada. Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante. 15. 64-76. 10.12927/hcpol.2020.26223.

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Klasa, Katarzyna & Galaitsi, Stephanie & Wister, Andrew. (2021). System models for resilience in gerontology: application to the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Geriatrics. 21. 10.1186/s12877-020-01965-2.

Leyland AH, Groenewegen PP. Multilevel Modelling for Public Health and Health Services Research: Health in Context [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2020. Chapter 1, Introduction. 2020 Feb 29. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK565720/ doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34801-4_1