for Journalists
Institute For Work & Health
Contact1: Anita Dubey, Communications Co-ordinator
Phone (Bus): (416)927-2027 Ext 2260
(Fax): (416)927-4167E-mail: adubey@iwh.on.ca
Contact2: Rob Van Kruistum, Communications Associate
Phone (Bus): (416)927-2027 Ext 2148
E-mail: rvankruistum@iwh.on.ca
Address: 800-481 University Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 2E9
Web Site: www.iwh.on.ca
Keys: Acute Low Back Pain; Back Injuries; Back Pain; Disability Compensation; Contingent Work; Ergonomics; Evidence-Based Research; Health Research; Knowledge Diffusion/Transfer; Labour Market; Lower Back Pain; Medical Care; Mental health; Musculoskeletal Injuries; Neck Pain; Population Health; Psychosocial Factors & Work Related Disability; Rehabilitation for Musculoskeletal Injuries; Repetitive Strain Injury; Research and Development; Return to Work; Return-to-Work Programs; RSI; Soft Tissue Injuries; Stress; Systematic reviews; Wellness; Women & Work; Work Related Injury; Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders; Workers' Compensation Board (WCB); Workplace Disability; Workplace Health; Workplace Injury Prevention; Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB); Young workers/youth/teens; Ontario*.
Expertise: The Institute is concerned with both the prevention of workplace injury, the effectiveness of care once injury has occurred and identification of trends in labour market experiences and their impact on health.
The Institute’s mandate is to conduct and share research with workers, labour, employers, clinicians and policy-makers to promote, protect and improve the health of working people
Mandate: Research & transfer knowledge about the factors that contribute to workplace health injury & disability, & to improve the quality of rehabilitation in the community.
Story Ideas:
2007
May 23, 2007: Workplace drinking culture can curb alcohol consumption
Winter 2007: Institute welcomes new scientific director, Dr. Ben Amick; What researchers mean by ... "confidence intervals"; Research explores health and safety issues in immigrant workers; Ontario, B.C. show different declines in work injury rates; Flexible work in the high-tech sector: does it really meet workers' needs?; Seven key principles support an employee's successful return to work
2006
Fall 2006: Ontario's health and safety system is developing a guideline to prevent work-related soft-tissue injuries, the leading cause of worker absenteeism in the province; A network of Ontario physicians is promoting evidence-based care for low-back pain, and a new back pain tool kit will help in these efforts.
August 16, 2006: Alliance of injured workers and scientists receives $1 million in government funding to study the effects of work injury
August 8, 2006: A unique alliance of scientists and injured workers has received $1 million in funding to study the long-term effects of work injury; How can a workplace decide if it's worth putting money into an injury prevention program?
Spring 2006: Young workers are twice as likely as older workers to be hurt on the job; How do we ensure that research results don't end up sitting on a shelf?
2005
November 1, 2005: University Graduates Working Below Skill Level Report Poorer Health; Evaluation of 11,000 New Patient Lifts in Ontario; New Review Finds Acupuncture Helps Relieve Chronic Back Pain; New Booklet Designed to Help Doctors and Patients Manage Acute Low-Back Pain.
August 11, 2005: Job Characteristics Contribute Greatly to Increased Risk of Injury Among Young Workers
August 9, 2005: University Graduates Working Below Their Skills More Likely to Report Declining Health, Study Finds
July 1, 2005: Respecting The New Privacy Rules: How Will They Affect Health Research?; Which Came First - The Depression Or The Pain?
May 3, 2005: Exercise Can Help Patients With Some Types Of Low-back Pain
October 19, 2004 : Injury Statistics Don't Tell The Whole Story Of Women's Work-Health Issues
August 18, 2004: Common Interest in Injury Prevention Brings Scientists Together - A New Centre of Research Expertise in the Prevention of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders and Disabilities (CRE-PREMUS), University of Waterloo
March 20, 2003: Spring 2003 Newsletters - Safety, Don't Worry/Get Active, Ergonomic Change, Knowledge Transfer Capacity, Training Opportunities, Early & Safe Approach/Small Businesses
February 1, 2003: Lumbar-Disc Surgery Patients Encouraged to Get Active
December 19, 2002: Predicting the Expected Course of Recovery; New Model Helps to Monitor Health of Nurses; Youth Workplace Injury Programupdated: June 3, 2007