Experience

Publications

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• The Potential of Public Health to Enhance Chronic Disease Management.

  Public Health – Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Short Communication. December 119 (12):1130-1132.

  Increasingly, individuals around the world are developing one or more chronic diseases, resulting in a corresponding need for public health to initiate or enhance chronic disease management (CDM) strategies. CDM offers the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. One CDM strategy used by a growing number of people, particularly the aged, that requires improved evaluation and monitoring from those in the field of public health, is use of varied forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With population aging being accompanied by a rising use of CAM, this paper briefly addresses this timely issue.

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• The Potential of Public Health to Enhance Chronic Disease Management.

  Public Health – Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Short Communication. December 119 (12):1130-1132.

  Increasingly, individuals around the world are developing one or more chronic diseases, resulting in a corresponding need for public health to initiate or enhance chronic disease management (CDM) strategies. CDM offers the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. One CDM strategy used by a growing number of people, particularly the aged, that requires improved evaluation and monitoring from those in the field of public health, is use of varied forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With population aging being accompanied by a rising use of CAM, this paper briefly addresses this timely issue.

• Enhancing Chronic Disease Management: A Review of Key Issues and Strategies.

  Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 13:232-239.

  This review highlights three selected issues and three potential strategies towards meeting chronic disease management needs. First, the curative orientation of the biomedical science model often gives insufficient attention to community based chronic health care needs. A second issue is that the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer for some an opportunity to enhance their chronic disease management efforts. A third issue addressed is that our understanding of this potential is limited as many who use CAM do not wish to disclosure such use. With reference to proposed solutions/strategies, one is that an improved recognition of patient/client values and goals may encourage individuals to be more open regarding their use of CAM. Secondly, a community based participatory approach shows promise in not only enhancing communication, but also as a means to help integrate CAM within new models of chronic disease management. Lastly, a third strategy is to consider the role that those in public health could play towards facilitating such an approach plus be a monitor of CAM practices. Overall, this review serves as a springboard for further research on CAM and the management of chronic disease. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2007.06.002

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• The Potential of Public Health to Enhance Chronic Disease Management.

  Public Health – Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Short Communication. December 119 (12):1130-1132.

  Increasingly, individuals around the world are developing one or more chronic diseases, resulting in a corresponding need for public health to initiate or enhance chronic disease management (CDM) strategies. CDM offers the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. One CDM strategy used by a growing number of people, particularly the aged, that requires improved evaluation and monitoring from those in the field of public health, is use of varied forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With population aging being accompanied by a rising use of CAM, this paper briefly addresses this timely issue.

• Enhancing Chronic Disease Management: A Review of Key Issues and Strategies.

  Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 13:232-239.

  This review highlights three selected issues and three potential strategies towards meeting chronic disease management needs. First, the curative orientation of the biomedical science model often gives insufficient attention to community based chronic health care needs. A second issue is that the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer for some an opportunity to enhance their chronic disease management efforts. A third issue addressed is that our understanding of this potential is limited as many who use CAM do not wish to disclosure such use. With reference to proposed solutions/strategies, one is that an improved recognition of patient/client values and goals may encourage individuals to be more open regarding their use of CAM. Secondly, a community based participatory approach shows promise in not only enhancing communication, but also as a means to help integrate CAM within new models of chronic disease management. Lastly, a third strategy is to consider the role that those in public health could play towards facilitating such an approach plus be a monitor of CAM practices. Overall, this review serves as a springboard for further research on CAM and the management of chronic disease. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2007.06.002

• Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration and Community-based Participatory Research through Technology.

  The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 6 (4):1-12.

  Effective community development, to maximize a given community’s potential, requires strategies that enhance interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) capacity. The role technology has to enable this has to date received little attention. Drawing from such diverse fields as Sociology and Public Health, this cross-disciplinary article provides an overview of what CBPR and IPC are, and how each may be practically implemented via use of technology so as to improve / help facilitate problem solving as well as knowledge transfer and knowledge mobilization.

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• The Potential of Public Health to Enhance Chronic Disease Management.

  Public Health – Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Short Communication. December 119 (12):1130-1132.

  Increasingly, individuals around the world are developing one or more chronic diseases, resulting in a corresponding need for public health to initiate or enhance chronic disease management (CDM) strategies. CDM offers the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. One CDM strategy used by a growing number of people, particularly the aged, that requires improved evaluation and monitoring from those in the field of public health, is use of varied forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With population aging being accompanied by a rising use of CAM, this paper briefly addresses this timely issue.

• Enhancing Chronic Disease Management: A Review of Key Issues and Strategies.

  Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 13:232-239.

  This review highlights three selected issues and three potential strategies towards meeting chronic disease management needs. First, the curative orientation of the biomedical science model often gives insufficient attention to community based chronic health care needs. A second issue is that the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer for some an opportunity to enhance their chronic disease management efforts. A third issue addressed is that our understanding of this potential is limited as many who use CAM do not wish to disclosure such use. With reference to proposed solutions/strategies, one is that an improved recognition of patient/client values and goals may encourage individuals to be more open regarding their use of CAM. Secondly, a community based participatory approach shows promise in not only enhancing communication, but also as a means to help integrate CAM within new models of chronic disease management. Lastly, a third strategy is to consider the role that those in public health could play towards facilitating such an approach plus be a monitor of CAM practices. Overall, this review serves as a springboard for further research on CAM and the management of chronic disease. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2007.06.002

• Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration and Community-based Participatory Research through Technology.

  The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 6 (4):1-12.

  Effective community development, to maximize a given community’s potential, requires strategies that enhance interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) capacity. The role technology has to enable this has to date received little attention. Drawing from such diverse fields as Sociology and Public Health, this cross-disciplinary article provides an overview of what CBPR and IPC are, and how each may be practically implemented via use of technology so as to improve / help facilitate problem solving as well as knowledge transfer and knowledge mobilization.

• Massage Therapy Visits by the Aged: Testing a Modified Andersen Model - A Critical Perspective.

  Lambert Academic Publishing, and VDM Publishing House Limited

  Understanding profiles of older individuals, who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services, continues to remain under researched. Towards better understanding massage therapy (MT) user profiles, this monograph (based on my PhD thesis research) considers use of a modified version of Andersen’s Health Behavior Model. Respondents represented an elderly sample (aged 60+) that resided within a large urban city. Using a quantitative method, data were gathered using a pre-tested English-only mail questionnaire, developed specifically for this study. Data were gathered from multiple sites over a period of 6 months. Bivariate analysis suggest that inequalities exist whereby the ability to access massage therapy varies according to one's socioeconomic status. THis is further supported using backwards step-wise regression analysis, whereby one't total annual household income was a strong predictor of MT use status. One’s CAM-related health and social network as well as having back problems also emerged as significant predictors of MT use. Overall findings suggests that a modified Andersen model as used in this study does have utility in relation to helping to identify potential factors associated with the utilization of massage therapy. With population aging and rising numbers of people needing restorative and rehabilitation services, findings as denoted in this publication will increasingly have important public health as well as health care policy related implications. ISBN: 978-3-639-34980-1

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• The Potential of Public Health to Enhance Chronic Disease Management.

  Public Health – Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Short Communication. December 119 (12):1130-1132.

  Increasingly, individuals around the world are developing one or more chronic diseases, resulting in a corresponding need for public health to initiate or enhance chronic disease management (CDM) strategies. CDM offers the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. One CDM strategy used by a growing number of people, particularly the aged, that requires improved evaluation and monitoring from those in the field of public health, is use of varied forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With population aging being accompanied by a rising use of CAM, this paper briefly addresses this timely issue.

• Enhancing Chronic Disease Management: A Review of Key Issues and Strategies.

  Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 13:232-239.

  This review highlights three selected issues and three potential strategies towards meeting chronic disease management needs. First, the curative orientation of the biomedical science model often gives insufficient attention to community based chronic health care needs. A second issue is that the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer for some an opportunity to enhance their chronic disease management efforts. A third issue addressed is that our understanding of this potential is limited as many who use CAM do not wish to disclosure such use. With reference to proposed solutions/strategies, one is that an improved recognition of patient/client values and goals may encourage individuals to be more open regarding their use of CAM. Secondly, a community based participatory approach shows promise in not only enhancing communication, but also as a means to help integrate CAM within new models of chronic disease management. Lastly, a third strategy is to consider the role that those in public health could play towards facilitating such an approach plus be a monitor of CAM practices. Overall, this review serves as a springboard for further research on CAM and the management of chronic disease. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2007.06.002

• Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration and Community-based Participatory Research through Technology.

  The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 6 (4):1-12.

  Effective community development, to maximize a given community’s potential, requires strategies that enhance interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) capacity. The role technology has to enable this has to date received little attention. Drawing from such diverse fields as Sociology and Public Health, this cross-disciplinary article provides an overview of what CBPR and IPC are, and how each may be practically implemented via use of technology so as to improve / help facilitate problem solving as well as knowledge transfer and knowledge mobilization.

• Massage Therapy Visits by the Aged: Testing a Modified Andersen Model - A Critical Perspective.

  Lambert Academic Publishing, and VDM Publishing House Limited

  Understanding profiles of older individuals, who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services, continues to remain under researched. Towards better understanding massage therapy (MT) user profiles, this monograph (based on my PhD thesis research) considers use of a modified version of Andersen’s Health Behavior Model. Respondents represented an elderly sample (aged 60+) that resided within a large urban city. Using a quantitative method, data were gathered using a pre-tested English-only mail questionnaire, developed specifically for this study. Data were gathered from multiple sites over a period of 6 months. Bivariate analysis suggest that inequalities exist whereby the ability to access massage therapy varies according to one's socioeconomic status. THis is further supported using backwards step-wise regression analysis, whereby one't total annual household income was a strong predictor of MT use status. One’s CAM-related health and social network as well as having back problems also emerged as significant predictors of MT use. Overall findings suggests that a modified Andersen model as used in this study does have utility in relation to helping to identify potential factors associated with the utilization of massage therapy. With population aging and rising numbers of people needing restorative and rehabilitation services, findings as denoted in this publication will increasingly have important public health as well as health care policy related implications. ISBN: 978-3-639-34980-1

• Maximizing Chronic Disease Prevention and Management through Community Based Participatory Research and Inter-collaborative Practices

  Open Journal of Social Science Research (OJSSR)

  This article review addresses the utilization of community based participatory research (CBPR) and intercollaborative practice (ICP) strategies as potential ways to assist professionals, community organization personnel and the general public to better allocate scarce community resources. Collectively and individually, it appears that these versatile strategies may also help to maximize a given community’s chronic disease management and prevention potential. Peer-reviewed,available free at : http://manuscript.sciknow.org/uploads/ojssr/pub/ojssr_1362045231_2013_1_2_web.pdf

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• The Potential of Public Health to Enhance Chronic Disease Management.

  Public Health – Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Short Communication. December 119 (12):1130-1132.

  Increasingly, individuals around the world are developing one or more chronic diseases, resulting in a corresponding need for public health to initiate or enhance chronic disease management (CDM) strategies. CDM offers the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. One CDM strategy used by a growing number of people, particularly the aged, that requires improved evaluation and monitoring from those in the field of public health, is use of varied forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With population aging being accompanied by a rising use of CAM, this paper briefly addresses this timely issue.

• Enhancing Chronic Disease Management: A Review of Key Issues and Strategies.

  Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 13:232-239.

  This review highlights three selected issues and three potential strategies towards meeting chronic disease management needs. First, the curative orientation of the biomedical science model often gives insufficient attention to community based chronic health care needs. A second issue is that the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer for some an opportunity to enhance their chronic disease management efforts. A third issue addressed is that our understanding of this potential is limited as many who use CAM do not wish to disclosure such use. With reference to proposed solutions/strategies, one is that an improved recognition of patient/client values and goals may encourage individuals to be more open regarding their use of CAM. Secondly, a community based participatory approach shows promise in not only enhancing communication, but also as a means to help integrate CAM within new models of chronic disease management. Lastly, a third strategy is to consider the role that those in public health could play towards facilitating such an approach plus be a monitor of CAM practices. Overall, this review serves as a springboard for further research on CAM and the management of chronic disease. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2007.06.002

• Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration and Community-based Participatory Research through Technology.

  The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 6 (4):1-12.

  Effective community development, to maximize a given community’s potential, requires strategies that enhance interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) capacity. The role technology has to enable this has to date received little attention. Drawing from such diverse fields as Sociology and Public Health, this cross-disciplinary article provides an overview of what CBPR and IPC are, and how each may be practically implemented via use of technology so as to improve / help facilitate problem solving as well as knowledge transfer and knowledge mobilization.

• Massage Therapy Visits by the Aged: Testing a Modified Andersen Model - A Critical Perspective.

  Lambert Academic Publishing, and VDM Publishing House Limited

  Understanding profiles of older individuals, who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services, continues to remain under researched. Towards better understanding massage therapy (MT) user profiles, this monograph (based on my PhD thesis research) considers use of a modified version of Andersen’s Health Behavior Model. Respondents represented an elderly sample (aged 60+) that resided within a large urban city. Using a quantitative method, data were gathered using a pre-tested English-only mail questionnaire, developed specifically for this study. Data were gathered from multiple sites over a period of 6 months. Bivariate analysis suggest that inequalities exist whereby the ability to access massage therapy varies according to one's socioeconomic status. THis is further supported using backwards step-wise regression analysis, whereby one't total annual household income was a strong predictor of MT use status. One’s CAM-related health and social network as well as having back problems also emerged as significant predictors of MT use. Overall findings suggests that a modified Andersen model as used in this study does have utility in relation to helping to identify potential factors associated with the utilization of massage therapy. With population aging and rising numbers of people needing restorative and rehabilitation services, findings as denoted in this publication will increasingly have important public health as well as health care policy related implications. ISBN: 978-3-639-34980-1

• Maximizing Chronic Disease Prevention and Management through Community Based Participatory Research and Inter-collaborative Practices

  Open Journal of Social Science Research (OJSSR)

  This article review addresses the utilization of community based participatory research (CBPR) and intercollaborative practice (ICP) strategies as potential ways to assist professionals, community organization personnel and the general public to better allocate scarce community resources. Collectively and individually, it appears that these versatile strategies may also help to maximize a given community’s chronic disease management and prevention potential. Peer-reviewed,available free at : http://manuscript.sciknow.org/uploads/ojssr/pub/ojssr_1362045231_2013_1_2_web.pdf

• Strengthening Chronic Disease Management Capacity through Knowledge Mobilization.

  Chapter 2 of: New Perspectives on Knowledge, Attitudes & Practices in Health. R.W. Pierce and R. Schwartz (Editors). Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., www.novapublishers.com

  The objective of this book chapter is to place into context the potential of community based participatory research (CBPR) and interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives as means to enhance chronic disease management in Canada as well as internationally. The manner in which information may be shared between community citizens (within CBPR) and professionals (within IPE) is explored through the use of knowledge mobilization.

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• The Potential of Public Health to Enhance Chronic Disease Management.

  Public Health – Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Short Communication. December 119 (12):1130-1132.

  Increasingly, individuals around the world are developing one or more chronic diseases, resulting in a corresponding need for public health to initiate or enhance chronic disease management (CDM) strategies. CDM offers the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. One CDM strategy used by a growing number of people, particularly the aged, that requires improved evaluation and monitoring from those in the field of public health, is use of varied forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With population aging being accompanied by a rising use of CAM, this paper briefly addresses this timely issue.

• Enhancing Chronic Disease Management: A Review of Key Issues and Strategies.

  Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 13:232-239.

  This review highlights three selected issues and three potential strategies towards meeting chronic disease management needs. First, the curative orientation of the biomedical science model often gives insufficient attention to community based chronic health care needs. A second issue is that the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer for some an opportunity to enhance their chronic disease management efforts. A third issue addressed is that our understanding of this potential is limited as many who use CAM do not wish to disclosure such use. With reference to proposed solutions/strategies, one is that an improved recognition of patient/client values and goals may encourage individuals to be more open regarding their use of CAM. Secondly, a community based participatory approach shows promise in not only enhancing communication, but also as a means to help integrate CAM within new models of chronic disease management. Lastly, a third strategy is to consider the role that those in public health could play towards facilitating such an approach plus be a monitor of CAM practices. Overall, this review serves as a springboard for further research on CAM and the management of chronic disease. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2007.06.002

• Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration and Community-based Participatory Research through Technology.

  The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 6 (4):1-12.

  Effective community development, to maximize a given community’s potential, requires strategies that enhance interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) capacity. The role technology has to enable this has to date received little attention. Drawing from such diverse fields as Sociology and Public Health, this cross-disciplinary article provides an overview of what CBPR and IPC are, and how each may be practically implemented via use of technology so as to improve / help facilitate problem solving as well as knowledge transfer and knowledge mobilization.

• Massage Therapy Visits by the Aged: Testing a Modified Andersen Model - A Critical Perspective.

  Lambert Academic Publishing, and VDM Publishing House Limited

  Understanding profiles of older individuals, who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services, continues to remain under researched. Towards better understanding massage therapy (MT) user profiles, this monograph (based on my PhD thesis research) considers use of a modified version of Andersen’s Health Behavior Model. Respondents represented an elderly sample (aged 60+) that resided within a large urban city. Using a quantitative method, data were gathered using a pre-tested English-only mail questionnaire, developed specifically for this study. Data were gathered from multiple sites over a period of 6 months. Bivariate analysis suggest that inequalities exist whereby the ability to access massage therapy varies according to one's socioeconomic status. THis is further supported using backwards step-wise regression analysis, whereby one't total annual household income was a strong predictor of MT use status. One’s CAM-related health and social network as well as having back problems also emerged as significant predictors of MT use. Overall findings suggests that a modified Andersen model as used in this study does have utility in relation to helping to identify potential factors associated with the utilization of massage therapy. With population aging and rising numbers of people needing restorative and rehabilitation services, findings as denoted in this publication will increasingly have important public health as well as health care policy related implications. ISBN: 978-3-639-34980-1

• Maximizing Chronic Disease Prevention and Management through Community Based Participatory Research and Inter-collaborative Practices

  Open Journal of Social Science Research (OJSSR)

  This article review addresses the utilization of community based participatory research (CBPR) and intercollaborative practice (ICP) strategies as potential ways to assist professionals, community organization personnel and the general public to better allocate scarce community resources. Collectively and individually, it appears that these versatile strategies may also help to maximize a given community’s chronic disease management and prevention potential. Peer-reviewed,available free at : http://manuscript.sciknow.org/uploads/ojssr/pub/ojssr_1362045231_2013_1_2_web.pdf

• Strengthening Chronic Disease Management Capacity through Knowledge Mobilization.

  Chapter 2 of: New Perspectives on Knowledge, Attitudes & Practices in Health. R.W. Pierce and R. Schwartz (Editors). Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., www.novapublishers.com

  The objective of this book chapter is to place into context the potential of community based participatory research (CBPR) and interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives as means to enhance chronic disease management in Canada as well as internationally. The manner in which information may be shared between community citizens (within CBPR) and professionals (within IPE) is explored through the use of knowledge mobilization.

• Aging and Chronic Illness: Towards an Inter-Professional Approach in Primary Health Care

  Imperial College Press (London, England)

  A consideration of the use of the Alma Mata as a guiding framework to improve global chronic disease prevention and management initiatives. Willison, K.D. (principal author), Lindsay, S., Taylor, M.; Schroeder, H.; Andrews, G. Chapter two of: Adams J, Magin P, Broom A. (Eds.) Primary Health Care and Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Research and Practice. Available September 2013. URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p875

• Advancing Integrative Medicine through Interprofessional Education

  The International Journal of Health Sociology: Policy, Promotion, Equity and Practice. Special Issue. Health Sociology Review.

  Interprofessional education (IPE) holds potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments that are needed for integrative medicine (IM) to thrive. That IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine, in that both seek to bring together diverse professionals, makes consideration of the application of IPE towards advancing integrative medicine timely. Bringing together varied disciplines which represent biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), while maintaining each of their unique attributes, is what IPE can accomplish. Their synergy has the potential to improve holistic and patient-centered care, as well as bolster chronic disease management.

• The Potential of Public Health to Enhance Chronic Disease Management.

  Public Health – Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Short Communication. December 119 (12):1130-1132.

  Increasingly, individuals around the world are developing one or more chronic diseases, resulting in a corresponding need for public health to initiate or enhance chronic disease management (CDM) strategies. CDM offers the best and most comprehensive approach for providing holistic and comprehensive care for patients with chronic illnesses. One CDM strategy used by a growing number of people, particularly the aged, that requires improved evaluation and monitoring from those in the field of public health, is use of varied forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). With population aging being accompanied by a rising use of CAM, this paper briefly addresses this timely issue.

• Enhancing Chronic Disease Management: A Review of Key Issues and Strategies.

  Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 13:232-239.

  This review highlights three selected issues and three potential strategies towards meeting chronic disease management needs. First, the curative orientation of the biomedical science model often gives insufficient attention to community based chronic health care needs. A second issue is that the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) may offer for some an opportunity to enhance their chronic disease management efforts. A third issue addressed is that our understanding of this potential is limited as many who use CAM do not wish to disclosure such use. With reference to proposed solutions/strategies, one is that an improved recognition of patient/client values and goals may encourage individuals to be more open regarding their use of CAM. Secondly, a community based participatory approach shows promise in not only enhancing communication, but also as a means to help integrate CAM within new models of chronic disease management. Lastly, a third strategy is to consider the role that those in public health could play towards facilitating such an approach plus be a monitor of CAM practices. Overall, this review serves as a springboard for further research on CAM and the management of chronic disease. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2007.06.002

• Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration and Community-based Participatory Research through Technology.

  The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 6 (4):1-12.

  Effective community development, to maximize a given community’s potential, requires strategies that enhance interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) capacity. The role technology has to enable this has to date received little attention. Drawing from such diverse fields as Sociology and Public Health, this cross-disciplinary article provides an overview of what CBPR and IPC are, and how each may be practically implemented via use of technology so as to improve / help facilitate problem solving as well as knowledge transfer and knowledge mobilization.

• Massage Therapy Visits by the Aged: Testing a Modified Andersen Model - A Critical Perspective.

  Lambert Academic Publishing, and VDM Publishing House Limited

  Understanding profiles of older individuals, who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services, continues to remain under researched. Towards better understanding massage therapy (MT) user profiles, this monograph (based on my PhD thesis research) considers use of a modified version of Andersen’s Health Behavior Model. Respondents represented an elderly sample (aged 60+) that resided within a large urban city. Using a quantitative method, data were gathered using a pre-tested English-only mail questionnaire, developed specifically for this study. Data were gathered from multiple sites over a period of 6 months. Bivariate analysis suggest that inequalities exist whereby the ability to access massage therapy varies according to one's socioeconomic status. THis is further supported using backwards step-wise regression analysis, whereby one't total annual household income was a strong predictor of MT use status. One’s CAM-related health and social network as well as having back problems also emerged as significant predictors of MT use. Overall findings suggests that a modified Andersen model as used in this study does have utility in relation to helping to identify potential factors associated with the utilization of massage therapy. With population aging and rising numbers of people needing restorative and rehabilitation services, findings as denoted in this publication will increasingly have important public health as well as health care policy related implications. ISBN: 978-3-639-34980-1

• Maximizing Chronic Disease Prevention and Management through Community Based Participatory Research and Inter-collaborative Practices

  Open Journal of Social Science Research (OJSSR)

  This article review addresses the utilization of community based participatory research (CBPR) and intercollaborative practice (ICP) strategies as potential ways to assist professionals, community organization personnel and the general public to better allocate scarce community resources. Collectively and individually, it appears that these versatile strategies may also help to maximize a given community’s chronic disease management and prevention potential. Peer-reviewed,available free at : http://manuscript.sciknow.org/uploads/ojssr/pub/ojssr_1362045231_2013_1_2_web.pdf

• Strengthening Chronic Disease Management Capacity through Knowledge Mobilization.

  Chapter 2 of: New Perspectives on Knowledge, Attitudes & Practices in Health. R.W. Pierce and R. Schwartz (Editors). Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., www.novapublishers.com

  The objective of this book chapter is to place into context the potential of community based participatory research (CBPR) and interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives as means to enhance chronic disease management in Canada as well as internationally. The manner in which information may be shared between community citizens (within CBPR) and professionals (within IPE) is explored through the use of knowledge mobilization.

• Aging and Chronic Illness: Towards an Inter-Professional Approach in Primary Health Care

  Imperial College Press (London, England)

  A consideration of the use of the Alma Mata as a guiding framework to improve global chronic disease prevention and management initiatives. Willison, K.D. (principal author), Lindsay, S., Taylor, M.; Schroeder, H.; Andrews, G. Chapter two of: Adams J, Magin P, Broom A. (Eds.) Primary Health Care and Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Research and Practice. Available September 2013. URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p875

• A Comparative Review of Four Preference-Weighted Measures of Health-related Quality of Life.

  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 56 (4): 317-325.

  Four generic, preference-weighted, health-related quality of life (HRQL) questionnaires (the Quality of Well-Being, the Health Utilities Index, the EQ-5D, and the SF-6D) are reviewed. Although all of these questionnaires are designed to measure the same concept, each uses a different model of health, a different method of deriving preferences, and a different scoring formula. Head-to-head comparisons of preference-weighted questionnaires are limited. By considering several hypothetical health states, we found that utility scores for equivalent states can vary substantially, depending on the measure used. Clinicians and researchers applying preference-weighted HRQL questionnaires should be aware of such differences and exercise caution when interpreting the results.