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Self-reported weight loss attempts and weight-related stress in childhood : heightening the risk of obesity in early adolescence
(Wiley, 2021-01-26)
Objective
Weight loss attempts occur as early as childhood. The impacts of weight loss attempts and weight-related stress on the occurrence of obesity during childhood remain unknown. We aimed to: (a) assess the prevalence ...
Impact of an early childhood intervention on the home environment, and subsequent effects on child cognitive and emotional development : a secondary analysis
(Public library of science, 2019-07-03)
The objective of this study was to use secondary data from the Preparing for Life (PFL) trial to test (1) the impact of a prenatal-to-age-five intervention targeting women from a disadvantaged Irish community on the quality ...
Articulating care and responsibility in design : a study on the reasoning processes guiding health innovators’ ‘care-making’ practices
(Elsevier, 2020-12-16)
This article explores how health innovation designers articulate care and responsibility when
designing new health technologies. Towards this end, we draw on Tronto’s ethic of care framework
and Responsible Research and ...
Anticipatory governance and moral imagination : methodological insights from a scenario-based public deliberation study
(Elsevier, 2019-12-03)
The fields of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and participatory foresight seek to establish, and toinclude publics within, anticipatory governance mechanisms. While scenario-based methods can bring to thepublics’ ...
Longitudinal and sex measurement invariance of the affective neuroscience personality scales
(SAGE, 2016-06-24)
The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) is a personality instrument based on six evolutionary-related brain
systems that are at the foundation of human emotions and behaviors: SEEKING, CARING, PLAYFULNESS, ...
Allergies and asthma: employing principles of social justice as a guide in public health policy development
(Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l'Université de Montréal (CRÉUM): LES ATELIERS DE L’ÉTHIQUE, 2010)
The growing epidemic of allergy and allergy-induced asthma poses a significant challenge to population health. This article, written for a target audience of policy-makers in public health, aims to contribute to the ...
Nutrigenomics for Global Health: Ethical Challenges for Underserved Populations
Nutrigenomics for Global Health
(2009-09)
Nutrigenomics covers disparate fields of nutrition science and has been defined in many different ways. In fact, this emerging field of science has multiple facets, many of which do not generate the same ethical issues. ...
Pharmacogenomic technologies : a necessary “luxury” for better global public health?
(BMC, 2011)
Background: Pharmacogenomic technologies aim to redirect drug development to increase safety and efficacy of
individual care. There is much hope that their implementation in the drug development process will help respond
to ...
Impacts of the early COVID-19 pandemic on the work of bioethicists in Canada
(Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, 2022-12-08)
Bioethics experts played a key role in ensuring a coherent
ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the fields of
healthcare, public health, and scientific research in Canada. In
the province of Quebec, a group of ...
Ethical Principles as a Guide in Implementing Policies for the Management of Food Allergies in Schools
(Sage, 2010-03-26)
Food allergy in children is a growing public health problem that carries a significant risk of anaphylaxis such that schools and child care facilities have enacted emergency preparedness policies for anaphylaxis and methods ...