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Giving New Brunswick Our Best Shot
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: April 12, 2021 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Health
At one time, only physicians were allowed to administer vaccinations. In 2009, however, the province of New Brunswick passed legislation allowing pharmacists to do the same. As COVID-19 vaccines are now available, the ability to receive a vaccination from a local pharmacist is becoming more and more important to New Brunswickers. Could pharmacist-administered vaccines boost healthcare in...
Read the full postConcepts in Epidemiology
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: April 8, 2021 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Health
When diseases like SARS-CoV-2 emerge, epidemiology is key to understanding and controlling the spread of infection. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, “epidemiology” has become a common term in the public realm, appearing in news articles and interviews worldwide. But what exactly is epidemiology? And what does this field of study entail? Epidemiology is the study of how...
Read the full post1 Year of Data Literacy
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: April 6, 2021 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Population Research, Datasets
Data Literacy Training Partnership with GNB: One Year Later At NB-IRDT, we believe data is the way of the future. One year ago, we put this belief into practice by partnering with the Government of New Brunswick to develop a data literacy training program for public servants. In April 2020, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council awarded NB-IRDT and GNB a four-year $200,000...
Read the full postLabour Force Survey Enhanced with COVID-19 Questions
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: April 2, 2021 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Labour Markets
Wondering how the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent disease containment measures have affected the Canadian and New Brunswick labour market? So has Statistics Canada. In April 2020, a series of survey enhancements were included in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to fully measure the shock to the Canadian labour market resulting from COVID-19 and subsequent economic shutdowns. Over the past year,...
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