Bernard Ck Choi

Summary

Affiliation: Public Health Agency of Canada
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi Statistical issues and quality indicators
    Bernard C K Choi
    Health Aff (Millwood) 23:282; author reply 282-3. 2004
  2. ncbi Evaluation and measurement of health-related quality of life for individuals with diabetes mellitus by Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) system
    Frank Mo
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Canada
    ScientificWorldJournal 6:1412-23. 2006
  3. ncbi Diseases of comfort: primary cause of death in the 22nd century
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control CCDPC, Public Health Agency of Canada PHAC, Government of Canada, AL no 6701A, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1030-4. 2005
  4. ncbi An international comparison of women's occupational health issues in the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore: the CIDA-SEAGEP study
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, AL number 6701A, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4, Canada
    Occup Med (Lond) 55:515-22. 2005
  5. ncbi Twelve essentials of science-based policy
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, PL 6701A, 120 Colonnade Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 1B4
    Prev Chronic Dis 2:A16. 2005
  6. ncbi Can scientists and policy makers work together?
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Government of Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:632-7. 2005
  7. ncbi Enhancing regional capacity in chronic disease surveillance in the Americas
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 17:130-41. 2005
  8. ncbi Innovative ideas needed for timely and effective public health information dissemination
    Bernard C K Choi
    Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:259. 2005
  9. ncbi A catalog of biases in questionnaires
    Bernard C K Choi
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Prev Chronic Dis 2:A13. 2005
  10. ncbi Understanding the basic principles of knowledge translation
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:93. 2005

Detail Information

Publications31

  1. ncbi Statistical issues and quality indicators
    Bernard C K Choi
    Health Aff (Millwood) 23:282; author reply 282-3. 2004
  2. ncbi Evaluation and measurement of health-related quality of life for individuals with diabetes mellitus by Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) system
    Frank Mo
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Canada
    ScientificWorldJournal 6:1412-23. 2006
    ..In particular, results from this study suggest the need to address ways of reducing the burden of diabetes associated with health behaviours, and increasing the quality of life for the individuals with diabetes in Canada...
  3. ncbi Diseases of comfort: primary cause of death in the 22nd century
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control CCDPC, Public Health Agency of Canada PHAC, Government of Canada, AL no 6701A, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1030-4. 2005
    ..If uncurbed, a new generation of "diseases of comfort" (such as those chronic diseases caused by obesity and physical inactivity) will become a major public health problem in this and the next century...
  4. ncbi An international comparison of women's occupational health issues in the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore: the CIDA-SEAGEP study
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, AL number 6701A, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4, Canada
    Occup Med (Lond) 55:515-22. 2005
    ..The study was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency's Southeast Asia Gender Equity Program...
  5. ncbi Twelve essentials of science-based policy
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, PL 6701A, 120 Colonnade Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 1B4
    Prev Chronic Dis 2:A16. 2005
    ....
  6. ncbi Can scientists and policy makers work together?
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Government of Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:632-7. 2005
    ....
  7. ncbi Enhancing regional capacity in chronic disease surveillance in the Americas
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 17:130-41. 2005
  8. ncbi Innovative ideas needed for timely and effective public health information dissemination
    Bernard C K Choi
    Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:259. 2005
  9. ncbi A catalog of biases in questionnaires
    Bernard C K Choi
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Prev Chronic Dis 2:A13. 2005
    ....
  10. ncbi Understanding the basic principles of knowledge translation
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 59:93. 2005
  11. ncbi Emerging issues in public health information
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, AL no 6701A, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 60:823. 2006
  12. ncbi Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in health research, services, education and policy: 1. Definitions, objectives, and evidence of effectiveness
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
    Clin Invest Med 29:351-64. 2006
    ..This paper is the first of two in a series. It discusses the definitions, objectives, and evidence of effectiveness of such teamwork...
  13. ncbi Bringing chronic disease epidemiology and infectious disease epidemiology back together
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, AL no 6701A, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 61:832. 2007
  14. ncbi Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity in health research, services, education and policy: 2. Promotors, barriers, and strategies of enhancement
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada PHAC, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Clin Invest Med 30:E224-32. 2007
    ..The first discussed the definitions, objectives, and evidence of effectiveness of multiple disciplinary teamwork. This paper continues to examine the promotors, barriers, and ways to enhance such teamwork...
  15. ncbi Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity in health research, services, education and policy: 3. Discipline, inter-discipline distance, and selection of discipline
    Bernard C K Choi
    Senior Research Scientist, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada PHAC, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Clin Invest Med 31:E41-8. 2008
    ..The second examined the promoters, barriers, and ways to enhance such teamwork. This paper addresses the questions of discipline, inter-discipline distance, and where to look for multiple disciplinary collaboration...
  16. ncbi Enhancing global capacity in the surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases: seven themes to consider and build upon
    B C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 62:391-7. 2008
    ..With increasing human progress and technological advance, the pandemic of chronic diseases will become an even bigger threat to global health...
  17. ncbi Population attributable fraction: comparison of two mathematical procedures to estimate the annual attributable number of deaths
    Bernard Ck Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada PHAC, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Epidemiol Perspect Innov 7:8. 2010
    ..The new procedure calculates attributable number of deaths along a continuum (i.e. for each unit of exposure), and allows for one or more neutral (neither exposed nor nonexposed) exposure categories...
  18. ncbi Understanding and minimizing epidemiologic bias in public health research
    Bernard C K Choi
    Public Health Agency of Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, ON
    Can J Public Health 96:284-6. 2005
    ....
  19. ncbi Diagnostic accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid protein markers for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Canada: a 6-year prospective study
    Michael B Coulthart
    Canadian Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Surveillance System, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington Street, Winnipeg MB R3E 3R2, Canada
    BMC Neurol 11:133. 2011
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  20. ncbi Vision for a global registry of anticipated public health studies
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Bernard_
    Am J Public Health 97:S82-7. 2007
    ..This prospective, comprehensive system for tracking research in public health could help enhance collaboration and improve efficiency. Practical problems must be discussed before such a vision can be further developed...
  21. ncbi Computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) for health surveys in public health surveillance: methodological issues and challenges ahead
    Bernard C K Choi
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Chronic Dis Can 25:21-7. 2004
    ..It is concluded that further discussion and views on improvements with regard to CATI methodological and practical issues will help build a better CATI survey-based public health surveillance system for the future...
  22. ncbi Multiple exposures to smoking, alcohol, physical inactivity and overweight: Prevalences according to the Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 1.1
    Julia E Klein-Geltink
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
    Chronic Dis Can 27:25-33. 2006
    ..Future studies are recommended to examine other risk factors, as well as interactions of multiple exposures in association with chronic disease...
  23. ncbi Two information dissemination approaches for public health decision makers: encyclopaedia and fire alarm
    Bernard C K Choi
    Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, AL no 6701A, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 58:634. 2004
  24. ncbi An international comparison of women's health issues in the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Canada, Hong Kong, and Singapore: the CIDA-SEAGEP Study
    Bernard C K Choi
    Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada K1H 5N1
    ScientificWorldJournal 4:989-1006. 2004
    ..Based on this study, 17 recommendations were made on surveillance, research, and programs and policies. A number of forthcoming changes in women''s health patterns in developing countries were also predicted...
  25. ncbi Using Health Utility Index (HUI) for measuring the impact on health-related quality of Life (HRQL) among individuals with chronic diseases
    Frank Mo
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, 120 Colonnade Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0K9
    ScientificWorldJournal 4:746-57. 2004
    ....
  26. ncbi Achieving the daily step goal of 10,000 steps: the experience of a Canadian family attached to pedometers
    Bernard C K Choi
    Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Clin Invest Med 30:E108-13. 2007
    ..The family project also provides an example to encourage more Canadians to conduct family projects on healthy living...
  27. ncbi Modulated release of health risk information to the general public with the use of mnemonics
    Bernard C K Choi
    Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
    J Epidemiol Community Health 58:809. 2004
  28. ncbi Health proverbs
    Bernard C K Choi
    Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    J Epidemiol Community Health 58:1010. 2004
  29. ncbi Daily step goal of 10,000 steps: a literature review
    Bernard C K Choi
    Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Clin Invest Med 30:E146-51. 2007
    ..It also looks at a number of issues associated with achieving the daily step goal, such as considerations in walking, step counting and physical activity...
  30. ncbi Characteristics and risk factors for accident injury in Canada from 1986 to 1996: an analysis of the Canadian Accident Injury Reporting and Evaluation (CAIRE) database
    Frank Mo
    Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, AL 1910C1, Tunney s Pasture, Ottawa, Ont, Canada K1A 0K9
    Inj Control Saf Promot 9:73-81. 2002
    ....
  31. ncbi Health issues associated with societal evolution
    Bernard C K Choi
    Clin Invest Med 29:129-30. 2006