Ross Upshur's research while affiliated with University of Toronto and other places

... Such alternative problem/solution constructions represent potentially important missed opportunities for evidence-informed policy learning across jurisdictions, perhaps reflecting constructions that favour the expediency and feasibilityof regulatory change over more challenging, but also potentially more impactful, changes to the values and financing that structure health service delivery. Such expediency may, in part, be driven by the pressures of ʻcrisisʼ responses.84 ...

... In the context of developing nations, gender inequality in healthcare is still evident in rural and urban areas (Hamiduzzaman et al., 2023). In the developing countries of Asia, government-run hospitals are seen to be overcrowded and understaffed due to a limited healthcare options (Tahsin et al., 2022). Thus, the introduction of smart health technology is one of the potential strategies by the local healthcare services entrepreneurs to fill the gap in healthcare markets and facilitate healthcare services to female in particular and changes the behaviour of the local population to reach more healthcare-relevant services from the smart healthcare technology-driven platform (Redfern, 2017;Kher and Mistry, 2022). ...

... 4 Pearce Cusack takes a deep dive into the medical humanities with an anthology of literary writing by Iain Bamford. 5 All remind us of the holistic approach considered an essential feature of family medicine by WONCA. 2 This approach must have time and space for dreams and logic. ...

... Then the impacts are managed to preserve healthcare system access and quality as well as dealing with legacy issues thereafter (7). Such approaches need an appropriate evidence-based decision-making mechanism based on strong research skills, the capacity to conduct accurate and rapid research, evidence evaluation, as well as structures for informed decision-making (12). Along with the set of solutions and approaches to increase the responsiveness of the healthcare systems, measuring, monitoring, and reporting performance can lead to a balanced responding mechanism to COVID-19 pandemic (13). ...

... The most commonly used evaluation method is to establish an employee evaluation model, including employee self-evaluation, superior evaluation, and other factors. The performance quality model of employees includes indicators such as employee performance, attendance rate, and rank [7]. Based on the evaluation of employees and the analysis of their skills, the matching degree between the company's main personnel and their positions is obtained as follows: ...

... FHTs are designed to provide integrated, multidisciplinary primary care and are typically led by physicians or nurse practitioners [29]. A purposeful sampling strategy [30] was used to recruit 6 FHTs across geographically diverse areas (urban, rural, and suburban) of Ontario, Canada, from 2018 to 2019; this FHT recruitment process is described in detail in another publication [23,30]. The categorization of sites into rural, urban, and suburban settings was consistent with Statistics Canada's definition of rurality [31]. ...

... This moral imperative to intervene is strengthened by the systemic marginalisation and manufactured vulnerabilities of people who use opioids. 54 Namely, intervention-irrespective of the risks of industry involvement-may be deemed as required since the populations that may most benefit have historically been denied access to appropriate harm-reducing services and therapies. 55 56 Thus, we see a normalisation of industry promotion of harm reduction interventions such as increasing naloxone uptake 57 and reducing opioid-related stigma. ...

... The three SAGE framework principles analyzed above all demand the prioritization of LMICs, for whom preventative measures, such as vaccines, might even be the most efficient tool to fight the pandemic [34]. This underlines once again the unique selling proposition of the COVAX Facility-the main international organization distributing vaccine doses globally. ...

... 9 AI-assisted clinical decision-support has the potential to improve equity in surgical outcomes for patients treated at these institutions. 34 However, further development of the current models is needed, including collection of a larger, multi-institutional training set and mammogram-specific transfer learning. This project has several limitations. ...

... Several studies have increasingly explored the association of lifestyle and sociodemographic factors with multimorbidity, given the important relationship that they have and their impact on multimorbidity [7,[11][12][13][14]. In Portugal, however, there seem to be no studies on these associations. ...