Working papers
Before the results of a work-health study are published in a peer-reviewed journal, our researchers sometimes produce a preliminary version of their findings in the form of a Working Paper.
To request a copy of a Working Paper, please complete the order form (88 KB). Hard copies of these papers cost $10 unless otherwise specified.
#346 The logic of practice: An ethnographic study of front-line service work with small businesses in Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (2009)
Eakin J, MacEachen E, Mansfield L, Clarke J
#345 A review of social marketing campaigns in occupational injury, disease or dsability prevention
Mustard C, Bielecky A
#342 Lessons from the Literature on Valuing Reductions in Physical Risk
Cookson R, Dorman P
#339 Disability Income Security Benefits for Working-Age Canadians
Mustard C, Dickie C, Chan S
#316 Walking a mile in each others' shoes: The evolution of a research design with workplace health and safety partners as part of the process
Kramer D, Cole D, Hepburn G, Theberge N, Van Eerd D, Workplace Health Intervention Research Team
#309 Navigating common trends and diverse systems: Examining declining work injury trends across jurisdictions
Mustard C, Sinclair S, Sullivan T
#222 The productivity consequences of two ergonomic interventions
DeRango K, Amick BC, Robertson M, Rooney T, Moore A, Bazzani L
#203 Health-care utilization for work-related soft-tissue injuries: Understanding the role of providers
Payne J, Lavis J, Mustard C, Hogg-Johnson S, Bombardier C, Lee H
#199 The association between adolescents and young-adult behavior problems in a male cohort
Khambalia A, Breslin FC, Mustard C
#189 Young adult behaviour problems: Family antecedents and behaviour mediators
Khambalia A, Breslin FC, Mustard C
#184 Work injuries among young workers: How much do different methods of calculating denominators matter?
Breslin FC, Pole JD, Koehoorn M
#178 Gender differences in occupational position and declines in self-rated health
Smith P, Short S, Mustard C
#172 The health of nursing personnel: A summary of research findings to inform the development of a national survey in Canada
Koehoorn M, Sullivan T
#162 The ethics of using secondary data for record linkage in epidemiology: Is informed consent always required?
Côté P, Mustard C, Frank J
#161 Pharmacological management of chronic low back pain: A critical review and synthesis of systematic reviews
Furlan A, Clarke J, Irvin E, Pennick V, Garritty C, Sinclair S, Bombardier C
#160 The challenges of operationalizing a theory of disablement in the context of secondary data sources
Tompa E, Etches J, Mustard C, Trevithick S
#152 Surface EMG as a diagnostic aid for neck and upper-limb musculoskeletal disorders
Keir P, Wells R, Cole D, Manno M, Beaton D, Grossman J
#149 The worksite upper extremity groups: Modeling multiple tender points using marginal survival modelsmann
Manno M, Beaton D, Van Eerd D
#146 A comparison of the classification systems for neck and upper limb pain developed using different methodological approaches on the same set of data
Cole D, Beaton D, Hogg-Johnson S, Ibrahim S, Van Eerd D, Bombardier C
#131 A Review of health-related work outcome measures, their uses and recommended measures
Amick BC, Lerner D, Rogers WH, Rooney T, Katz J
#127 Return to work after a soft-tissue injury: A qualitative exploration
Clarke J, Cole D, Ferrier S
#126 Work organization and musculoskeletal injuries among a cohort of health care workers
Koehoorn M, Demers PA, Hertzman C, Village J, Kennedy S
#123 Healthy workplace performance assessment tools: management and labour perspectives
Robson L, Oliveira E, Eakin J
#112 Job satisfaction, upper extremity pain intensity and absenteeism in work-related musculoskeletal disorders: an investigation using path analysis
Smith J, Cole D, Ibrahim S, The Worksite Upper Extremity Research Group
#108 Validity of self-reported utilization of insured health care services
Mustard C, Goel V, Barer M, Muhajarine N
#96 CPP and QPP early retirement provisions and their impact on labour-force behaviour
Tompa E
#90 Informal educational communications among physicians: Strategies for research transfer
Rappolt S
#88 Multi-state hazard models for analyzing recurrences of soft-tissue injuries
Manno M, Hogg-Johnson S
#85 Gender and benefit duration in lost time work-related soft tissue disorders: Relationships with work and social factors
Clarke J, Chung J, Cole D, Hogg-Johnson S, Haidar H, ECC Prognosis Working Group
#84 Socioeconomic status (SES) and health-related absence from work: A Canadian example.
Payne J, Frank J
#82R Socioeconomic status (SES) and health-related absence from work: Differences by measure of SES and by sex.
Payne J, Williams J, Frank J
#77 A "real world" experiment on implementation of the Quebec task force guidelines on whiplash associated disorders
Jansz G, Kinzie P, Cohen D, Hogg-Johnson S, Manno M
#70 Primary care physicians' management of acute low back pain - Results of an Ontario survey
Jansz G, Maetzel A, Bombardier C, Physician-Survey Focus Group
#63 Unemployment and mortality: A longitudinal study in the United States, 1968-1992
Lavis J
#62 The links between labour-market experiences and health: Towards a research framework
Lavis J
#54 Health care insurance sources for the treatment of work-related back disorder in a complete population
Mustard C, Yassi A, Frank J, Mayer T
#51 Occupational health monitoring: A framework for considering different types of systems & some evidence for their effectiveness
Brooker A, Frank J, Cole D, Shannon HS
#44 The population attributable risk: Issues and commentary
Brooker A, Frank J, Shannon HS, Tarasuk V
#40 Personal and circumstantial predictors of job psychosocial measures in hospital workers
Shannon HS, Woodward C, Cunningham C, MacIntosh J, Lendrum B, Brown J, Rosenbloom D
#32 The process of recovery from work-related soft tissue injuries: A discussion paper
Cole D, Beaton D, Shannon HS
#30 R-1 Occupational injury burden by age: Combining incidence and duration for a better perspective
Rael E, Badley E, Hogg-Johnson S, Frank J
#23 Is chronic back pain alone different from chronic back pain with non-spinal arthritis?
Mäkelä M, Frank J, Badley E
#21 R-1 A structured critical review of acute back pain prognosis studies
Pulcins I, Goel V, Cohen J, Frank J
#19 Prognostic risk factor models for low back pain: Why they have failed and a new hypothesis
Hogg-Johnson S, Frank J, Rael E
#14 A methodological framework for the critical appraisal of classification systems
Buchbinder R, Goel V, Bombardier C
#12 Qualitative research: A case study of its contribution to epidemiology
Tarasuk V, Frank J, Ferrier S, Stansfeld S
#10 Health related quality of life measures: Choice of outcome measures for the integrated study part I: Literature review, appropriateness and practicality of health status measures
Beaton D, Bombardier C
#9 Patient satisfaction with health care: Review of the literature and selection of a measure for the integrated study
MacDonald H, Bombardier C
#8 Pain measurement: A review of the literature and selection of a measure for the integrated study
MacDonald H, Bombardier C
