January 2018: PWHS researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students are giving a series of presentations on workplace violence, return to work trajectories after musculoskeletal injuries, OHS data development, and the burden of work disability at the Cascadia Occupational, Environmental, and Population Health Conference, January 4-5, in Abbotsford, BC.
Thursday, January 4
Improving health at work: Why it’s so hard to go beyond healthy lifestyle activities? The case of the Quebec Healthy Enterprise Standard
France St-Hilaire, PWHS Visiting Scholar
Age, sex, and the changing burden of work disability in Canada and Australia
Robert Macpherson, PWHS Postdoctoral Fellow
Friday, January 5
Violence and return to work after work injury in health care workers in British Columbia
Kelvin Choi, PWHS MSc Student
A multistate model to examine gradual-return-to-work transitions between return-to-work states in a cohort of workers with work-related musculoskeletal disorders
Esther Maas, PWHS Postdoctoral Fellow
Anxiety disorders and return-to-work following musculoskeletal injury
Andrea Jones, PWHS PhD Student
The power of data: The development and validation of an audit database of a multidimensional OHS scale
Rachel Cliff/Niloufar Saffari, PWHS Research Assistants