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Ronald Labonté

Ronald Labonté

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
75
Citations
19989
World Ranking
550
National Ranking
31

Overview

Ronald Labonté is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their body of work includes a significant focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and intersecting areas such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist has researched a variety of topics, primarily centered on Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, with notable attention to zoonotic diseases, animal disease management, global maternal and child health, employment and welfare studies, global health care issues, and public health policies and education.

Some of the recent papers by Ronald Labonté include:

  • Ethnic and racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths: counting the trees, hiding the forest (2020), published in BMJ Global Health
  • Safeguarding people living in vulnerable conditions in the COVID-19 era through universal health coverage and social protection (2021), published in The Lancet Public Health
  • Globalisation in the time of COVID-19: repositioning Africa to meet the immediate and remote challenges (2020), published in Globalization and Health
  • What role for One Health in the COVID-19 pandemic? (2020), published in Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • Governing antimicrobial resistance: a narrative review of global governance mechanisms (2020), published in Journal of Public Health Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ronald Labonté include:

  • Arne Rückert
  • Mary Wiktorowicz
  • Fran Baum
  • Manisha A. Kulkarni
  • Corinne Packer

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Globalization and Health
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • Global Public Health
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition to journal articles, Ronald Labonté has published works in the book format, including the title Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition (2022) through Rutgers University Press.

Best Publications

  • "Everything Is Perfect, and We Have No Problems": Detecting and Limiting Social Desirability Bias in Qualitative Research.

    Nicole Bergen;Ronald Labonté

  • A planning framework for community empowerment goals within health promotion

    Glenn Laverack;Ronald Labonte

  • Health Promotion and Empowerment: Reflections on Professional Practice

    Ronald Labonte

  • Capacity building in health promotion, Part 1: For whom? And for what purpose?

    Ronald Labonte;Glenn Laverack

  • Medical tourism today: What is the state of existing knowledge?

    Laura Hopkins;Ronald Labonté;Vivien Runnels;Corinne Packer

  • Evaluating community capacity

    Marion Gibbon;Ronald Labonte;Glenn Laverack

  • Social inclusion/exclusion: dancing the dialectic.

    Ronald Labonte

  • Framing health and foreign policy: lessons for global health diplomacy.

    Ronald Labonté;Michelle L Gagnon

  • Addressing social determinants of health inequities: what can the state and civil society do?

    Erik Blas;Lucy Gilson;Michael P Kelly;Ronald Labonté

  • Ethnic and racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths: counting the trees, hiding the forest.

    Sanni Yaya;Helena Yeboah;Carlo Handy Charles;Akaninyene Otu

  • Canada: A land of missed opportunity for addressing the social determinants of health

    Toba Bryant;Dennis Raphael;Ted Schrecker;Ronald Labonte

  • Globalization and social determinants of health: Introduction and methodological background (part 1 of 3)

    Ronald Labonté;Ted Schrecker

  • Social capital and community development: practitioner emptor.

    Ronald Labonte

  • The rise of neoliberalism: how bad economics imperils health and what to do about it

    Ronald Labonté;David Stuckler

  • The growing impact of globalization for health and public health practice.

    Ronald Labonté;Katia Mohindra;Ted Schrecker

  • Capacity building in health promotion, Part 2: Whose use? And with what measurement?

    Ronald Labonte;Glenn Laverack

  • Empowering social action through narratives of identity and culture.

    Lewis Williams;Ronald Labonte;Mike O'Brien

  • Globalization and health : pathways, evidence and policy

    Ronald Labonté;Ted Schrecker;Corinne Packer;Vivien Runnels

  • Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health

    Ronald Labonte;Ted Schrecker;David Sanders;Wilma Meeus

  • Empowerment Forum: A Dialogue between Guest Editorial Board Members

    E Bernstein;N Wallerstein;R Braithwaite;L Gutierrez

  • The Social Determinants of Health

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Fran Baum
Fran Baum University of Adelaide
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault University of Ottawa
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Valorie A. Crooks
Valorie A. Crooks Simon Fraser University
Anne Marie Thow
Anne Marie Thow University of Sydney
David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Allison Williams
Allison Williams McMaster University
Dennis Raphael
Dennis Raphael York University
Sanni Yaya
Sanni Yaya University of Ottawa

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