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Current Issue Vol. 43, No. 4 December 2011

Focus on: HEALTH AND IMMIGRATION

 

Editorial / Éditoriale:
Dissemination of Knowledge and Information: Rethinking the Model
by Laurie N. Gottlieb

On a flight to Hawaii this past summer, after attending the 30th annual meeting of the International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE) in San Francisco, I read John Howkins’ book The Creative Economy, published a decade ago (Howkins, 2002). The message of this book is how to rethink an economy when the product is ideas and intellectual property, rather than tangible goods, and how best to safeguard one’s ideas from exploitation. It made me think about my role as an editor and how editors treat ideas and then disseminate them. Recall that I had just attended the INANE annual meeting, whose theme this year was the use of social media (i.e., Facebook, blogs, Twitter) to disseminate ideas. (For all intents and purposes, social media are currently being used by publishers and editors to market journals rather than to disseminate content.) The issue, of course, is that people are obtaining information in new and different ways, and, in order to adapt to the times, editors and publishers of scholarly journals will have to change their models for disseminating information and safeguarding ideas. The challenge confronting editors and publishers of nursing journals is how to develop new models for disseminating information that consumers will use. What will these new models look like? Where to begin rethinking models for the dissemination of nursing information? It has been said that the best decisions are those that use information already at hand to shape the present and carve out the future. A good way to start is to consider what we know about how information is currently being disseminated and how people go about accessing information, in general and as it relates to nursing...(Full article)


Immigrant and Refugee Social Networks: Determinants and Consequences of Social Support Among Women Newcomers to Canada / Les réseaux sociaux des immigrantes et des réfugiées : les déterminants et les conséquences du soutien social chez les femmes nouvellement arrivées au Canada (Abstract)

Michaela Hynie, Valorie A. Crooks, Jackeline Barragan

Social Support for Breast Cancer Management Among Portuguese Speaking Immigrant Women /Le soutien social dans le cadre de la gestion d’un cancer du sein chez les immigrantes lusophones
(Abstract)

Sepali Guruge, Christine Maheu, Margareth Santos Zanchetta, Francyelle Fernandez, Lorena Baku

The Health of Women Temporary Agricultural Workers in Canada: A Critical Review of the Literature / La santé des travailleuses agricoles temporaires au Canada : une recension critique de la littérature (Abstract)

Kathryn Edmunds, Helene Berman, Tanya Basok, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Cheryl Forchuk

The Birthing Experiences of Rural Aboriginal Women in Context: Implications for Nursing / Les expériences d’accouchement des femmes autochtones en région rurale, mises en contexte : les implications en matière de soins infirmiers (Abstract)

Helen Brown, Colleen Varcoe, Betty Calam

 
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