Compensation + benefits
At Work articles
- Easy-to-use tool measures benefits and costs of OHS initiatives (Winter 2010)
- In Focus: Community-based research explores impact of job injuries on workers’ lives (Summer 2009)
- IWH briefing explores business cycles and workers’ compensation (Spring 2009)
- Pilot program decreases duration and costs of workers’ comp claims (Winter 2009)
- Disability income security programs are poorly coordinated (Summer 2008)
Issue Briefings
- Workers' compensation in California and Canada (February 2010)
- Workers' compensation and the business cycle (March 2009)
Research highlights
- Vulnerable workers more likely to receive no income for work-related absence (2009)
- How injured and ill workers receive expedited care (2008)
- Decline in lost-time claims is linked to drop in hazardous jobs (2007)
- Study finds hospital costs for injured sawmill workers (2007)
- Depression, poor physical health increase injured workers' disability days (2006)
- Soft-tissue injuries are associated with increased health-care visits (2006)
Working papers
Current projects
- B.C. workers’ compensation benefits after Bill 49 (#418)
- Client experiences with Labour Market Re-Entry (#247)
- Effects of the compensation system on workers’ lives (#428)
- How compensation board front-line staff interact with small businesses (#227)
- Injured immigrant workers in British Columbia (#258)
- Injured immigrant workers’ experiences (#273)
- Managing workers’ mental health conditions (#1100)
- Mental health and substance use issues with complex claims (#428A)
- Standardizing work disability management systems (#237)
- Understanding long-term compensation claims (#327)
- Understanding the recurrence of work absence (#341)
Journal articles
Course, diagnosis, and treatment of depressive symptomatology in workers following a workplace injury: a prospective cohort study. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2009;54(8):534-46. Abstract
The prevalence and incidence of work absenteeism involving neck pain: a cohort of Ontario lost-time claimants. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2009;32(2 Suppl):S219-S226. Abstract
Differences in access to wage replacement benefits for absences due to work-related injury or illness in Canada. Am J Ind Med. 2009;52(4):341-9. Abstract
Prediction of occupational disability : models, factors and outcomes. In: Schultz IZ, Gatchel RJ, editors. Handbook of complex occupational disability claims: early risk identification, intervention, and prevention. New York: Springer; 2009. p. 93-116.
The prediction of occupational disability related to depressive and anxiety disorders. In: Schultz IZ, Gatchel RJ, editors. Handbook of complex occupational disability claims: early risk identification, intervention, and prevention. New York: Springer; 2009. p. 371-84.
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