Journal articles

This database lists peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters that include an Institute for Work & Health (IWH) scientist or researcher (past or present) as an author. Clicking any title will allow you to view a detailed citation and, if available, an abstract. For journal articles by IWH and non-IWH researchers in the areas of occupational health and safety, return to work, workers' compensation, public health and others within the IWH mandate, see our Research Alerts.

2003

McLeod CB, Lavis JN, Mustard C, Stoddart GL. Income inequality, household income, and health status in Canada: a prospective cohort study. American Journal of Public Health. 2003;93(8):1287-1293.
Mustard C, Vermeulen M, Lavis JN. Is position in the occupational hierarchy a determinant of decline in perceived health status. Social Science & Medicine. 2003;57(12):2291-2303.
Lavis JN, McLeod CB, Mustard C, Stoddart GL. Is there a gradient in life span by position in the social hierarchy. American Journal of Public Health. 2003;93(5):771-774.
Cassidy JD, Carroll LJ, Cote P, Berglund A, Nygren A. Low back pain after traffic collisions: a population-based cohort study. Spine. 2003;28(10):1002-1009. doi:10.1097/01.BRS.0000061983.36544.0D.
Baril R, Clarke J, Friesen M, Stock S, Cole DC. Management of return-to-work programs for workers with musculoskeletal disorders: a qualitative study in three Canadian provinces. Social Science & Medicine. 2003;57(11):2101-2114.
Beaton DE, Schemitsch E. Measures of health-related quality of life and physical function. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2003;90-105. doi:10.1097/01.blo.0000079772.06654.c8.
Lavis JN, Ross SE, McLeod CB, Gildiner A. Measuring the impact of health research. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 2003;8(3):165-170. doi:10.1258/135581903322029520.
Cole DC, Wells R, Frazer MB, Kerr MS, Neumann WP, Laing AC. Methodological issues in evaluating workplace interventions to reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders through mechanical exposure reduction. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health. 2003;29(5):396-405.
van Tulder MW, Touray T, Furlan AD, Solway S, Bouter LM. Muscle relaxants for nonspecific low back pain: a systematic review within the framework of the cochrane collaboration. Spine. 2003;28(17):1978-1992. doi:10.1097/01.BRS.0000090503.38830.AD.
Shamian J, O'Brien-Pallas L, Thomson D, Alksnis C, Kerr MS. Nurse absenteeism, stress and workplace injury: what are the contributing factors and what can/should be done about it. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 2003;23(9):81-103.
Liss GM, Tarlo SM, Doherty J, Purdham J, Greene J, McCaskell L, Kerr MS. Physician diagnosed asthma, respiratory symptoms, and associations with workplace tasks among radiographers in Ontario, Canada. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2003;60(4):254-261. doi:10.1136/oem.60.4.254.
Eakin J, MacEachen E, Clarke J. Playing it smart with return to work: small workplace experience under Ontario's policy of self-reliance and early return. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety. 2003;1(2):19-41. doi:10.1080/14774003.2003.11667635.
Lavis JN. Policy analysis, bargaining and negotiation. In: Zollner H, Stoddart GL, Smith S, editors. Learning to live with health economics. Copenhagen: World Health Organization; 2003.
Smith PM, Breslin FC, Beaton DE. Questioning the stability of sense of coherence--the impact of socio-economic status and working conditions in the Canadian population. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2003;38(9):475-484. doi:10.1007/s00127-003-0654-z.
Davis AM, Badley EM, Beaton DE, Kopec J, Wright JG, Young NL, Williams JI. Rasch analysis of the Western Ontario McMaster (WOMAC) Osteoarthritis Index: results from community and arthroplasty samples. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2003;56(11):1076-1083.
Kerr MS, Norman RW. Risk factors for musculoskeletal injury at work. In: Sullivan TJ, Frank JW, editors. Preventing and managing disabling injury at work. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis; 2003.
Chapeskie K, Breslin FC. Securing a safe and healthy future: the road to injury prevention for Ontario's young workers. Rehabilitation and Community Care. 2003;12:32-34.
Beaton DE. Simple as possible? Or too simple? Possible limits to the universality of the one half standard deviation. Medical Care. 2003;41(5):593-596. doi:10.1097/01.MLR.0000064706.35861.B4.
Lavis JN, Stoddart GL. Social cohesion and health. In: Osbert L, editors. Economic implications of social cohesion. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press; 2003.
Smith PM, Polanyi M. Social norms, social behaviours and health: an empirical examination of a model of social capital. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2003;27(4):456-463. doi:10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00426.x.
Guzman J, Frank JW, Stock S, Yassi A, Loisel P. Stakeholder views of return to work after occupational injury. In: Sullivan TJ, Frank JW, editors. Preventing and managing disabling injury at work. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis; 2003.
Kramer D, Cole DC. Sustained, intensive engagement to promote health and safety knowledge transfer to and utilization by workplaces. Science Communication. 2003;25(1):56-82.
Polanyi M, Cole DC. Towards research-informed multi-stakeholder action on complex workplace health issues: reflections on two WMSD interventions. Preventing work-related disability: new views. 2003;125-142. London, England: Taylor & Francis; 2003.
van Tulder MW, Furlan AD, Bombardier C, Bouter LM. Updated method guidelines for systematic reviews in the cochrane collaboration back review group. Spine. 2003;28(12):1290-1299. doi:10.1097/01.BRS.0000065484.95996.AF.
Lemieux-Charles L, McGuire W, Champagne F, Barnsley J, Cole DC, Sicotte C. Use of multi-level performance indicators in managing performance in health care organizations. Management Decision. 2003;41(8):760-770. doi:10.1108/00251740310496279.