Julia Brassolotto

Research

Dementia Education Intimacy Long-Term Care Homes Policy Rural Sexual Expression Urban

Latest papers

Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016 · first author
Ideological and organizational components of differing public health strategies for addressing the social determinants of health.
Health promotion international · 2015
Understanding action on the social determinants of health: a critical realist analysis of in-depth interviews with staff of nine Ontario public health units.
BMC research notes · 2015 · senior author

All 3 publications

Latest funding

Supporting safe and healthy sexual expression for people living with dementia in urban and rural long-term care settings
CIHR · 2020 · Principal investigator
$325,124

All 1 grants and awards

3 publications.

01

Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia.

Brassolotto J, Daly T

Social science & medicine (1982)2016First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.033 PMID: 26854624

02

Ideological and organizational components of differing public health strategies for addressing the social determinants of health.

Raphael D, Brassolotto J, Baldeo N

Health promotion international2015

DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dau022 PMID: 24740752

03

Understanding action on the social determinants of health: a critical realist analysis of in-depth interviews with staff of nine Ontario public health units.

Raphael D, Brassolotto J

BMC research notes2015Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1064-5 PMID: 25885537

Supporting safe and healthy sexual expression for people living with dementia in urban and rural long-term care settings

Principal investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Kontos, Pia C; Brassolotto, Julia M; Grigorovich, Alisa; Poole, Lisa

Keywords: Dementia; Education; Intimacy; Long-Term Care Homes; Policy; Rural; Sexual Expression; Urban

$325,124

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Tamara Daly

Health Policy and Management

1 shared papers, latest 2016

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Dementia Dear Professor Brassolotto, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia." (2016), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Supporting safe and healthy sexual expression for people living with dementia in urban and rural long-term care settings" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]