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2. Mixing Nationality and Language: Montreal Radio in the 1930s.

Author

MacLennan, Anne

Subjects
PUBLIC radio, RADIO programs, NATIONALISM, NATIONAL unification, RADIO broadcasting
Abstract

One of the concerns that preceded the establishment of a national public radio broadcasting network in Canada was that Canadian broadcasting was quickly being overtaken by readily available American programs broadcast by NBC and CBS. The expectation was that the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission and then the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation would supply a sufficient sense of "national consciousness…and national unity" to counter the perceived threat of American broadcasting. Other factors, however, contributed the preservation of a national consciousness. Language presented a barrier to the wholesale adoption of American programming, despite the presence of two American affiliates in the city. The CBC, itself, was a carrier of American network programs making its impact mixed with regard to the safeguarding of a sense of Canadian nationalism. This unique combination of factors are explored here through a content analysis of radio program schedules in Montreal from 1930 to 1939, which reveals that the CBC was but one of three different networks whose establishment coincided with increased levels of American content in the Montreal radio schedule. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008

3. Modeling the risk of an emerging pathogen entering the Canadian blood supply.

Author

Kleinman, Steven, Cameron, Claire, Custer, Brian, Busch, Michael, Katz, Louis, Kralj, Boris, Matheson, Ian, Murphy, Ken, Preiksaitis, Jutta, and Devine, Dana

Subjects
*DONOR blood supply, *PATHOGENIC microorganisms, *BLOOD transfusion reaction, *MEDICAL care costs, *RED blood cell transfusion, *PREVENTION, *MANAGEMENT
Abstract

As part of its risk management process, Canadian Blood Services (CBS) constructed mathematical models of how newly emerging pathogens might affect blood transfusion recipients. CBS convened an expert panel including medical, health economics, analytical, risk management, and insurance professionals to examine multiple data sources. The model for emerging pathogen risk included separate modules to calculate the frequency and severity of infections from transfusion-transmitted agents that could cause either acute transient or chronic persistent infection. Important model input variables were annual number of components transfused, the presumed incidence and prevalence of a new agent, the time interval of recipient risk, recipient age and sex, projected recipient survival, rate of secondary infection, pathogen-induced morbidity, and the associated medical costs of such morbidity. In the 5-year time frame considered in the model, it was estimated that approximately 3500 recipient infections (two-SD range of 0 to 11,370 infections) could occur from an emerging pathogen that establishes a chronic infection in donors, with 60% of these due to red blood cell transfusion. The medical costs associated with recipient outcomes due to a catastrophic emerging pathogen could be lowered by 20% if an effective pathogen reduction method for either platelets or plasma were in place. This modeling exercise offers a framework for other blood services to construct similar models. It also provides a useful way to model the implementation of new blood safety interventions (e.g., pathogen reduction) on emerging pathogen risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2010
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