Institute for Work & Health

What characteristics are associated with meeting the Canadian physical activity guidelines for people with multiple sclerosis? A retrospective chart review

Meeting multiple sclerosis-specific physical activity guidelines (PAGs) has been associated with numerous benefits in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). However, the characteristics of PwMS predictive of meeting PAGs are unknown. This study aimed to examine which sociodemogra...

Personal Income Progression of Informal Family Caregivers of Children and Young Adults With Mental Disorders

Informal family care for a child with a mental disorder may negatively impact work capacity and decrease income. We compare prolonged sex-specific personal income progression between informal family caregivers of children/young adults with and without mental disorders. We evaluat...

Exclusive and Any Breastfeeding, Infant Formula Feeding, and Childhood Growth

OBJECTIVES: To understand the association between exclusive breastfeeding, any breastfeeding, and infant formula feeding and childhood growth. METHODS: A longitudinal cohort study was conducted among children from birth up to 10 years in Toronto, Canada. The primary exposure was...

Intersectionality in HIV-related policy documents affecting people who use drugs in Ontario, Canada: a policy document analysis

In 2023 Canadian surveillance data, injection drug use accounted for 13.6% of new HIV diagnoses among males and 28.4% among females in exposure-category data. This study identified the presence of intersectionality language among health policies that affect access to HIV related...

Antioxidant premedication reduces mitochondrial and nuclear DNA damage repair in interventional physicians performing X-ray-guided angiography procedures: a pilot clinical intervention study

Abstract Background To examine effects of naturally occurring antioxidants on DNA damage repair acute responses of ionizing radiation sustained by interventional physicians during angiography. Methods The study cohort included 20 interventional physicians (19 males, 1 female; mea...

Presumptive Coverage Policies and Workers’ Compensation of Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Conditions: A Retrospective Time‐Series Study in Canada 2001–2019

BACKGROUND: The impact of presumptive coverage policies for work-related mental health disorders has not been extensively studied to date. Using data from the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC), our objectives were to describe the evolution of compensat...

How precariously employed gay, bisexual, and queer immigrant and refugee men in Toronto make meaning of work, health, and wellbeing

Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people experience mental health and trauma outcomes as a result of systemic exclusion from the labour market in Canada, with less known about intersectional labour precarity for LGBTQ+ immigrants. How LGBTQ+ immigra...