Taiwo O. Olubanwo

Walden University · School of Health Sciences

The significant public health threat attributable to tobacco smoking is evidently connected to its increasing prevalence and disease burden. While the population of tobacco smokers is estimated at 1.2 billion globally (about 80% men and 20% women), the global prevalence of tobacco users aged 15 and above rose from 721 million in the 1980s to 967 mi...

Abstract: The effect of cardiovascular disease (CVD) on Canadian population is analyzed using epidemiological methods. A population-based cohort study is hypothetically considered in view of articulating the effect of CVD risk factors on CVD prevalence based on socio-demographic characteristics. Findings show that CVD prevalence rate was 37.4 per...

One of the core responsibilities of the leadership and the public health professionals of a healthy community is ensuring the well-being of its population. An accurate information about community health status helps potentiate the development and prioritize public health intervention (Walley & Wright, 2010). That said, the need to constantly assess...

Social media networking is an emerging and evolving trend in communication due to an increasing trajectory of social media usage in the recent time, particularly among the adolescent and adult age groups. A recent study shows an increased use of social media tools among adults from 8% to 72% in the United States between 2005 and 2016 (Ventola, 2014...

One of the supposed fundamental goals of any public health stakeholder and experts is often related to disease prevention and control. While vaccination/immunization has been an important breakthrough in biomedical sciences, studies have shown evidence of hesitancy to same in the recent time. One would ordinarily think that vaccine hesitancy would...

Background: For decades, cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a public health threat as it contributes mainly to the rate of mortality, morbidity and disability globally. Although CVD remains the leading cause of death globally, a shift in the epidemiologic outlook of the CVD burden is evident in Canada in recent times. Notwithstanding the identifi...

In response to managing the effects of the CoVID-19 pandemic, efforts have been made to align the socioeconomic, political, inter, and intrapersonal perspectives with the new social norms. More importantly, is the efforts made by the public health sector yield many promising outcomes. Amongst many interventions is the CoVID-19 vaccine which seems t...

As the world continues to battle the effects of CoVID-19 which has claimed many lives and caused a global unrest, some regions have been dealt yet with a double blow for having to deal with Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak at the time CoVID-19 is deemed one of the major public health threats. Recent findings show an estimated 10 million people (5.6 milli...

CoVID-19 remains one of the major public health issues around the world. No doubt, the effects of the ongoing CoVID-19 pandemic around the world cannot be overemphasized. This effect is much felt in underserved communities across the world. While evidence shows varied dynamism in the ongoing CoVID-19 presentations, the evidence-based approach in ma...

Due to fewer social amenities, high-risk factors, and disproportionate social determinants of health the likelihood of prolonged grief is more evident in the rural areas and Aboriginal communities compared to the urban settlement. In Canada, residents of the First Nation communities seem to present more with the effect of grief due to the increasin...

CoVID-19 Pandemic continues to be a major public health issues around the world. No doubt, the effects of the ongoing CoVID-19 pandemic around the world cannot be overemphasized. This effect is much felt in underserved communities across the world. While evidence shows varied dynamism in the ongoing CoVID-19 presentations, the evidence-based approa...

Due to fewer social amenities, high-risk factors, and disproportionate social determinants of health the likelihood of prolonged grief is more evident in the rural areas and Aboriginal communities compared to the urban settlement. In Canada, residents of the First Nation communities seem to present more with the effect of grief due to the increasin...

A daily AHA CoVID-19 Situation report provides an insight into the ongoing CoVID-19 pandemic management approach and community responses in real-time. Although, the rate of CoVID-19 vaccine uptakes seems promising recently, the AHA Red zone (hotspot) is somewhat shifting from BL to FDL as the number of cases in FDL has tripled (200% increase) withi...

The management approach towards the management of the CoVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve. As you may be aware, we now have four (4) CoVID-19 cases reported and are currently active in the Fond-Du-Lac community after more than two months straight without any case – see Figure 1. Although more than half of the people living in Fond Du Lac have rec...

As of August 15, 2021 (10 days following the lifted Black Lake two- week lockdown), a total of 25 active CoVID-19 cases have been reported with no new case and two recoveries today. What seems evident is the growing delta variant which is more than 80 per cent of all reported CoVID-19 cases since June 2021. It is noteworthy to say that children as...

No doubt, CoVID-19 has changed the way humans live in the past year. To manage the spread of the disease public health measures, guidelines and orders were initiated at all levels of the system. On July 11, 2021, the Public Health Orders (PHO) and all CoVID-19 related restrictions were lifted in Saskatchewan after more than a year that same was in...

No doubt, CoVID-19 has changed the way humans live in the past year. To manage the spread of the disease public health measures, guidelines and orders were initiated at all levels of the system. On July 11, 2021, the Public Health Orders (PHO) and all CoVID-19 related restrictions were lifted in Saskatchewan after more than a year that same was in...

If you may recall, we sent out a CoVID-19 Crisis Emergency Measures exactly a week ago. We thought we should update you about the situation in Black Lake as of July 25, 2021. The rate of CoVID-19 active cases continues to increase daily in the AHA Region. Nearly 95% cases of all active CoVID-19 cases recorded in the AHA region for the past month ha...

You may wonder why addictions are such a tough issue to overcome. One reason is that the human brain adapts to new addictive substances and programs itself so that, without the substance, the individual living with addiction problems may feel unwell.

Suicide is a tragic topic that is not always easy to discuss openly. Yet most of us know someone who has committed suicide. While there is no single reason responsible for suicide, the use of alcohol can increase the thoughts of suicide in people who are living with stressful situations, coping with difficult issues or who have certain mental healt...

”Research shows that talking about suicide does not increase the likelihood that someone will kill themselves” (Crisis Service Canada, 2020). Many would wonder why a right-thinking individual would want to end his or her own life by suicide. Although questioning the thought of suicide in the first place may be appropriate in part, there seems to be...

A continued desire for social change saddled towards improved population well-being is fundamental to ascertaining a robust public health system of a defined population. This is essential as social change is arguably the hallmark of improved social determinants of health, health inequalities, and health indicators. In view of promoting a population...

Often, individuals living with mental health issues have asked “Why me?”. Although this is an important question, no one is immune to mental illness because mental illness is not a choice. While mental illness may seem difficult to manage, you need to know that you are not alone! There are supports out there to help with recovery. Many mental healt...

Mental health is the level of psychological well-being or absence of illness. It is a state of satisfactory emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Mental health affects: how we think, feel and act; and how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. By extension, the stigma associated with mental illness has a link with the misun...

No doubt, the healthcare profession is among the most sought. Every profession has its ups and downs, one of the common downs attributable to most primary health care workers is poorly managed and perhaps prolonged work-related stress which often cascades into burnout. A proactive measure towards effective and prompt management of burnout and work-...

In some part of the world, particularly most high-income countries, malaria disease seems to be a thing of the past as some adult and most underage population in the said countries may think twice before responding to questions related to malaria disease. Conversely, malaria disease seems to be a common disease in several low-income countries parti...

Abstract The effect of cardiovascular disease (CVD) on Canadian population is analyzed using epidemiological methods. A population-based cohort study is hypothetically considered in view of articulating the effect of CVD risk factors on CVD prevalence based on socio-demographic characteristics. Findings show that CVD prevalence rate was 37.4 per 10...

Public health surveillance system plays a significant role in the evaluation of community population health status. Health surveillance helps tracks contemporary and emerging health issues. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health surveillance is a ‘systematic ongoing collection, management, analysis and inte...

A correctional facility as its name suggests is a place where one gets reshaped to understand the societal norms and perhaps learn from the past so as not to be found wanting in the same or similar crime that led to the conviction in the first place. Keeping a mentally ill convict(s) in a traditional jail/forensic facility may in part be a disservi...

While cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the leading cause of deaths in Canada, its prevalence is up to five times more in some Aboriginal communities compared with other Canadian population (Canada Foundation for Health Improvement, CFHI, 2014). To mitigate this CVD burden, a capacity building program is developed with a proposal for concerned h...

Abstract Since 2010, evidence has shown a rising trend in worldwide tourism and vacationing interest just after global economic recession that happened in the preceding years according to United Nations World Tourism Organization, UNWTO (Statistics Canada, 2013). For example, there has been increase surge in Canadians who use their vacation hours f...

Since 2010, evidence has shown a rising trend in worldwide tourism and vacationing interest just after the global economic recession that happened in the preceding years according to United Nations World Tourism Organization, UNWTO (Statistics Canada, 2013). For example, there has been an increasing surge in Canadians who use their vacation hours t...

The yardstick that cannot be overlooked in the successful management of any Public health system is the effectiveness of the sector in networking the populace’s health needs, such that the services are accessible, affordable, and veritable across the Nation. Due to the provincial autonomy and Federal government standard regulations aimed at effecti...

Maternal mortality rate (MMR) is on the rise globally with about 289,000 global maternal deaths in 2013. According to WHO (2014), ‘every day in 2013, about 800 women die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth’. This public health threat is more apparent in low-income countries. To limit the public health threat related to maternal mortali...

The effects of World War II left an indelible mark that prompted the Saskatchewan Government to seek a lasting solution towards the management of the WW11 related public health issues (Health Canada, 2014). Evidence suggests that most soldiers who died following WWII do not necessarily die due to their wound and injury they sustained but due to lim...

Over the past several decades, the Aboriginal communities in Canada have been disproportionately misrepresented by public health researchers. It is believed that many researchers would come into the Aboriginal communities, conduct their research and leave without collaborating with the member of the communities – this amongst others is considered t...

This paper is a critique of a research paper titled, “A clash of paradigms? Western and indigenous views on health research involving Aboriginal peoples” by Campbell TD (2014). The content of this paper will be focused on the strength, value, feasibility, weakness, limitation, validation or the authenticity of the aforementioned article by comparin...