Working conditions + health
At Work articles
Issue Briefings
- Unemployment and mental health (August 2009)
Research highlights
- Heavy workloads linked to mental health, MSD treatment in health-care workers (2009)
- Smoking, physical activity levels vary in different groups (2009)
- Unstable work increases risk of unwanted sexual advances (2009)
- Work factors affect off-the-job drinking habits (2009)
- Work-related insecurity a health risk — for some more than others (2009)
- Health and safety in high-tech workplaces (2008)
- Low job control has negative effect on health (2008)
- Neck pain common among adults, review shows (2008)
- OHS risks in social service organizations (2008)
- Temp workers have similar work-related sick days as permanent workers (2008)
- Which factors put workers at risk for neck pain? (2008)
- Job settings, education linked to work disability in youth (2007)
- Only one in five new workers receive safety training in Canada (2007)
- Some tasks put carpenters at higher risk for low-back pain (2007)
- What are the main causes of hospitalization in sawmill workers? (2007)
- Women, young workers, minorities are more likely to be “underemployed” (2007)
- Work setting, hazards are key injury risk factors for youth (2007)
- Canadians report small drop in stressful job situations (2006)
- How work conditions affect depression (2006)
Current projects
- Activity limitations and depression in Canadian workers (#332)
- Analyzing injury prevention social marketing campaigns (#1115)
- Benchmarking leading indicators for injury prevention (#1160)
- Geographic differences in work injury risk (#437)
- Hand disorders among users of hand-held devices (#203)
- Health conditions affect work in health-care workers (#131)
- How working conditions affect health in Canada’s labour market (#448)
- Immigrants’ work experiences, and links to diabetes and high blood pressure (#1165)
- Working conditions and lost-time claims in Ontario (#417)
Journal articles
Differential risk of employment in more physically demanding jobs among a recent cohort of immigrants to Canada. Injury Prevention. 2009;15(4):252-8. Abstract
Re: "Changes in perceived job strain and the risk of major depression: results from a population-based longitudinal study" [Letter to the editor]. AJE. 2009;170(1):131-2.
Regions, hospitals and health outcomes over time: a multi-level analysis of repeat prevalence among a cohort of health-care workers. Health & Place. 2009;15(4):1046-57. Abstract
Work organization and drinking: an epidemiological comparison of two psychosocial work exposure models. Int Arch Occup EnvironHealth. 2009;82(3):305-17. Abstract
Trends in educational inequalities in smoking and physical activity in Canada: 1974 to 2005. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2009;63:317-23. Abstract
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