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Weekly Outline

Week 1: Course introduction & place, space, and the geography of rural health
September 9-13, 2020

Class Objectives:
1. Familiarize yourself with D2L.
2. Read and understand course syllabus.
3. Introduce yourself to class.
4. To consider the relationship between ‘place’ and health in the context of rural Canada.

Required Readings:
1. Course syllabus.
2. Pitblado, J.R. (2005). So, what do we mean by "rural," "remote" and "northern"? Canadian
Journal of Nursing Research, 1(37): 163-8.
3. Bosco, C., & Oandasan, I. (2016). Review of Family Medicine Within Rural and Remote
Canada:
Education, Practice, and Policy. Mississauga, ON: College of Family Physicians of Canada.
4. Simms, A., & Greenwood, R. (2015). Newfoundland & Labrador http://sorc.crrf.ca/nl/

Week 2: Historical contexts for prevalent issues in northern, rural, & remote areas
September 14-20, 2020

Class Objectives:
1. To articulate the general rural trends and events in Canada.
2. To critically examine how past (largely invisible) policy and program decisions are implicated
in current events.

Required Readings:
1. Connor, J.T.H., Connor, J.J., Kidd, M.G., & Mathews, M. (2015). Conceptualizing health care
in rural and remote pre-confederation Newfoundland as ecosystem. Newfoundland and
Labrador Studies, 30(1), 1719-1726.
2. Adelson, N. (2005). The embodiment of inequality health disparities in Aboriginal Canada.
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 96, S45-61.
3. Kennedy, J.C. (1997). At the crossroads: Newfoundland and Labrador communities in a
changing international context. Canadian Review of Sociology, 34(3), 297-317.
4. Sullivan, L., Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. (2014). Recognizing change, recognizing rural: The new
rural economy and towards a new model of rural service. The Journal of Rural and Community
Development, 9(4), 219-245.

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