Listed below are selected articles published by organizations external to the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) that mention the Institute’s work. This includes articles that report on IWH research and/or quote Institute researchers, as well as articles written by IWH researchers or staff. The organizations include general media, specialty media in the field of work injury and disability prevention, and prevention system partners. The list runs from the most recent to the oldest media mention. It is not exhaustive.
Ontario locks down on Boxing Day, but essential workers still work. Without protections like paid sick leave, it just won’t work
When the province-wide lockdown starts on Boxing Day, Ontario’s essential workers will still be going to work. But what is abundantly clear is that what we have done in the past to protect essential workers has not been working, write Sabina Vohra, Dr. Naheed Dosani, Dr. Seema Marwaha and Semir Bulle in an op-ed. An IWH joint study on mental health and the adequacy of COVID-19 protection measures is cited.
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Inside Halton
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Unsafe workplaces during COVID-19 taking huge toll on workers’ mental health
Poor workplace COVID-19 precautions exacted a greater toll on workers’ mental health than losing a job during the pandemic, a new study has found. The Toronto Star's Sara Mojtehedzadeh speaks to co-leads of the study, Institute for Work & Health's Dr. Peter Smith and Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers's John Oudyk.
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Toronto Star
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Canadian workers aren’t too worried about robots taking their jobs, web survey finds
If walking and talking robots are coming to replace employees at counters, desks and tills, Canadians don’t appear to be too concerned about it. The Toronto Star's Kieran Leavitt reports on a survey by the Environics Institute, with comments from IWH's Dr. Arif Jetha.
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Toronto Star
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Study links inadequate PPE, COVID-19 infection controls to worker mental health issues
Feelings of anxiety and depression were highest among workers whose perceived personal protective equipment and infection control needs were not met during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Safety + Health reports on a study by the Institute for Work & Health and Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers.
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Safety + Health
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Workplaces are the new hotspot for COVID-19 outbreaks in Ontario
Whether it’s factories, food processing plants or construction sites, the latest numbers show heavily populated, essential workplaces are hotspots for COVID-19 in Ontario, Mark Carcasole reports, with quotes from Institute for Work & Health's Dr. Cameron Mustard.
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Global News
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COVID precautions protect workers' physical and mental health, study
Canadian health-care workers say they lacked adequate COVID-19 precautions during the pandemic’s first wave and new research finds this also contributes to poorer mental health. Workers Health & Safety Centre shares findings from a study by IWH and Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW), published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
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Workers Health & Safety Centre
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Health-care workers lacking PPE suffer from more anxiety and depression
While personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection control procedures are often discussed as measures to reduce virus transmission, we also need to understand their importance in the context of mental health, especially since the mental health impacts of COVID-19 may linger beyond the pandemic, writes IWH Senior Scientist Dr. Peter Smith in The Conversation.
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The Conversation
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Canada’s health inequalities between rich and poor exposed in new study
Poor Canadians stand a greater chance of dying early than the well off and that gap has been growing for decades, says a detailed new analysis. The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found the chances of dying before age 75 of avoidable causes has been declining for almost everyone. But they’ve been declining for the rich much faster than for the poor and have been doing so for a generation, writes the Canadian Press's Bob Weber.
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Huffington Post
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Patients with arthritis, depression more likely to be unemployed
Depression symptoms are associated with unemployment among working-age adults with arthritis, with middle-aged adults most affected. Jason Laday reports on a study published by Dr. Arif Jetha in Arthritis Care & Research.
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Healio
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Greater focus on episodic disabilities needed: Study
Disability management must adapt and create a new model to reflect the impact of episodic disabilities among employees, writes John Dujay on a study led by Dr. Monique Gignac, scientific co-director and senior scientist at the Institute for Work & Health.
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Canadian HR Reporter
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