A5057676773- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Disaster Response and Management
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Global Health and Surgery
- Mining and Resource Management
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
University of British Columbia
2015-2025
Scottish Government
2010
University College Dublin
2009
St John of God Hospital
2009
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
1997
Background We evaluated measures to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) in Vancouver, Canada, where variants of concern (VOC) went from <1% VOC February 2021 >92% mid-May. Canada has amongst the longest periods between vaccine doses worldwide, despite Vancouver having highest P.1 variant rate outside Brazil. Methods With surveillance data since pandemic began, we tracked laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections, positivity rates, and uptake all 25,558 HCWs Coastal Health, by occupation...
Academics from diverse disciplines are recognizing not only the procedural ethical issues involved in research, but also complexity of everyday "micro" that arise. While guidelines being developed for research aboriginal populations and low-and-middle-income countries, multi-partnered initiatives examining arts-based interventions to promote social change pose a unique set dilemmas yet fully explored. Our team, comprising health, education, scientists, critical theorists, artists...
The purpose of this study was to assess determinants healthcare worker (HCW) self-reported compliance with infection control procedures. A survey conducted HCWs in 16 facilities. strong correlation found between both environmental and organizational factors compliance. No relationship individual factors. Only 5% respondents rated their training as excellent, 30% felt they were not offered the necessary training. We concluded that procedures is tied characteristics, suggesting efforts improve...
Health workers are at high risk of acquiring infectious diseases work, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) with critical health human resource deficiencies limited implementation occupational infection control measures. Amidst increasing interest international partnerships to address such issues, how best develop collaborations is being actively debated. In 2006, a partnership developed between experts Canada institutions South Africa (including an institute national mandate...
Health scholars have long been calling for a new approach to understanding and responding public health challenges, recognizing the dynamic influence of social ecological processes importance respecting different ways knowing. With daunting challenges collective health, we sought ascertain how future generations researchers practitioners are being prepared with knowledge, attitudes, skills needed tasks ahead. We found that 76 graduate level programs listed by Public Agency Canada, 65%...
Healthcare workers (HCWs) play a critical role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Early pandemic, urban centres were hit hardest globally; rural areas gradually became more impacted. We compared infection and vaccine uptake HCWs living versus locations within, between, two health regions British Columbia (BC), Canada. also analysed impact of mandate for HCWs.We tracked laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections, positivity rates all 29,021 Interior Health (IH) 24,634 Vancouver Coastal...
Although information systems (IS) have been extensively applied in the health sector worldwide, few initiatives addressed and safety of workers, a group acknowledged to be at high risk injury illness, as well great shortage globally, particularly low middle-income countries. Adapting context-mechanism-outcome case study design, we analyze our team's own experience over two decades address this gap: different Canadian provinces; distinct South African settings. Applying realist analysis...
Workplace injuries cause considerable morbidity, requiring intervention programs with strong stakeholder support and effective interdisciplinary practitioner involvement. Such a program, called Prevention Early Active Return-to-Work Safely (PEARS), decreased time loss costs in large Canadian hospital. However, it only attracted 39% of workers who reported injuries. This triggered study utilization satisfaction PEARS to determine areas further enhance the program.The hospital's occupational...
Abstract Inappropriate sexual behaviors are a subset of challenging that limit the community integration individuals with intellectual disabilities. Despite stigmatizing effect problematic behavior, research efforts in this area have been limited and often used narrow prospective definitions. As such, has to focus on “sexual offending” “abuse,” terms which criticized their applicability people disabilities given connotations criminal intent or insight. The authors propose adopting term...
Globalization has been accompanied by the rapid spread of infectious diseases, and further strain on working conditions for health workers globally. Post-SARS, Canadian occupational infection control researchers got together to study how better protect workers, found that training was indeed perceived as key a positive safety culture. This led developing information communication technology (ICT) tools. The research conducted also showed need workplace inspections, so audit tool developed...
Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly applied, considerable distrust about introducing "disruptive" technologies persists. Intrinsic and contextual factors influencing where how such innovations are introduced therefore require careful scrutiny to ensure that health equity promoted. To illustrate one critical approach, we describe appraise an AI application - the development of computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) support more efficient adjudication compensation claims...
<sec> <title>Objectives.</title> To ascertain whether and how working as a partnership of two World Health Organization collaborating centres (WHOCCs), based respectively in the Global North South, can add insights on “what works to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) during pandemic, what contexts, using mechanism, achieve outcome”. </sec> <title>Methods.</title> A realist synthesis seven projects this research program was carried out characterize context (C) (including researcher...
Few studies have audited the resources available to infection control (IC) and occupational health (OH) promote safe work behaviour, whilst comparing findings with perceptions by healthcare workers (HCWs). We aimed determine IC OH compare this HCWs' perception of resources, following an outbreak severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A survey a questionnaire completed HCWs were compared on-site observational audits. believed that plans protect against future SARS-like events but audits...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted hurdles for healthcare delivery and personnel globally. Vaccination has been an important tool preventing severe illness death in workers (HCWs) as well the public at large. However, vaccination resulted some HCWs requiring time off work post-vaccination to recover from adverse events. We aimed understand which needed take post-vaccination, vaccine types sequence, how absence impacted uptake of booster doses a cohort 26,267 Canadian HCWs. By March 31, 2022,...