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Pamela Ratner

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As a socio-behavioural epidemiologist and psychometrician, Dr. Ratner has been a leading influence in a variety of areas of health science. Her primary program of research has focused on heart disease and the socio-cultural and clinical contexts of how it develops, is recognized and treated, and its outcomes. She was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2007.

Contributions:

Ratner, P. A., & Sawatzky, R. (2012). Approaches to the measurement of gender. In J. L. Oliffe & L. Greaves (Eds.), Designing and conducting gender, sex, and health research (pp. 65-84). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sawatzky, R., Ratner, P. A., Kopec, J. A., & Zumbo, B. D. (2012). Latent variable mixture models: A promising approach for the validation of patient reported outcomes. Quality of Life Research, 21, 637–650. doi:10.1007/s11136-011-9976-6
Sawatzky, R. G., Ratner, P. A., Richardson, C. G., Washburn, C., Sudmant, W., & Mirwaldt, P. (2012). Stress and depression in students: The mediating role of stress-management self-efficacy. Nursing Research, 61, 13-21. doi:10.1097/NNR.0b013e31823b1440
Mackay, M. H., Ratner, P. A., Johnson, J. L., Humphries, K., & Buller, C. E. (2011). Gender differences in symptoms of myocardial ischemia. European Heart Journal, 32, 3107-3114. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehr358
Ratner, P. A., Spinelli, J. J., Beking, K., Lorenzi, M., Chow, Y., Teschke, K., Le, N. D., Gallagher, R. P., & Dimich-Ward, H. (2010). Cancer incidence and adverse pregnancy outcome in registered nurses potentially exposed to antineoplastic drugs. BMC Nursing, 9, 15. doi:10.1186/1472-6955-9-15

Keywords:

Social epidemiology; Health behavior; Health promotion; Cardiovascular risk reduction; Patient-reported outcomes.
pam.ratner@ubc.ca
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