Journal articles

This database lists peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters that include an Institute for Work & Health (IWH) scientist or researcher (past or present) as an author. Clicking any title will allow you to view a detailed citation and, if available, an abstract. For journal articles by IWH and non-IWH researchers in the areas of occupational health and safety, return to work, workers' compensation, public health and others within the IWH mandate, see our Research Alerts.

2008

Smith PM, Frank JW, Mustard C, Bondy SJ. Examining the relationships between job control and health status: a path analysis approach. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2008;62(1):54-61. doi:10.1136/jech.2006.057539.
Amick B. Growing knowledge about 'what works' to prevent work injuries. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2008;65(5):297-298. doi:10.1136/oem.2007.036079.
Kosny A, Eakin J. Hazards of helping: work, mission and risk in non-profit social service organizations. Health, Risk and Society. 2008;10(2):149-166.
Bondy SJ, Johnson I, Cole DC, Bercovitz K. Identifying core competencies for public health epidemiologists. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2008;99(4):246-251.
Hayden JA, Cote P, Steenstra I, Bombardier C. Identifying phases of investigation helps planning, appraising, and applying the results of explanatory prognosis studies. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2008;61(6):552-560. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.08.005.
van der Velde G, Hogg-Johnson S, Bayoumi AM, Cassidy JD, Cote P, Boyle E, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Chan S, Subrata P, Hoving J, Hurwitz EL, Bombardier C, Krahn M. Identifying the best treatment among common nonsurgical neck pain treatments: a decision analysis. Spine. 2008;33(4):S184-S191. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e31816454f8.
Tompa E, Scott-Marshall H, Fang M. Impact of temporary employment and job tenure on work-related sickness absence. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2008;65(12):801-807. doi:10.1136/oem.2007.037259.
Nichol K, Bigelow P, O'Brien-Pallas L, McGeer A, Manno M, Holness DL. Individual, environmental, and organizational factors that influence nurses' use of facial protection to prevent occupational transmission of communicable respiratory illness in acute care hospitals. American Journal of Infection Control. 2008;36(7):481-487. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2007.12.004.
Shrier I, Boivin JF, Platt RW, Steele RJ, Brophy J, Carnevale F, Eisenberg MJ, Furlan AD, Kakuma R, Macdonald ME, Pilote L, Rossignol M. Interpretation of systematic reviews with meta-analyses: an objective or subjective process?. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2008;8:. doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-19.
Koehoorn M, Breslin FC, Xu F. Investigating the longer-term health consequences of work-related injuries among youth. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2008;43(5):466-473. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2008.04.012.
Tompa E, Polanyi M, Foley J. Labour market flexibility and worker insecurity. In: Raphael D, editors. Social determinants of health: Canadian perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc; 2008.
Cann AP, MacEachen E, Vandervoort AA. Lay versus expert understandings of workplace risk in the food service industry: a multi-dimensional model with implications for participatory ergonomics. Work. 2008;30(3):219-228.
Yousefi-Nooraie R, Schonstein E, Heidari K, Rashidian A, Pennick V, Akbari-Kamrani M, Irani S, Shakiba B, Mortaz HS, Jonaidi A. Low level laser therapy for nonspecific low-back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2008;CD005107-. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD005107.pub4.
Busse JW, Reid S, Leznoff A, Barsky AJ, Qureshi R, Guyatt GH. Managing environmental sensitivity: an overview illustrated with a case report. Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association. 2008;52(2):88-95.
Smith PM, Beaton DE. Measuring change in psychosocial working conditions: methodological issues to consider when data are collected at baseline and one follow-up time point. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2008;65(4):288-295. doi:10.1136/oem.2006.032144.
Furlan AD, Tomlinson G, Jadad AR, Bombardier C. Methodological quality and homogeneity influenced agreement between randomized trials and nonrandomized studies of the same intervention for back pain. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2008;61(3):209-231. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.04.019.
Carroll LJ, Cassidy JD, Peloso P, Giles-Smith L, Cheng CS, Greenhalgh SW, Haldeman S, van der Velde G, Hurwitz EL, Cote P, Nordin M, Hogg-Johnson S, Holm LW, Guzman J, Carragee EJ. Methods for the best evidence synthesis on neck pain and its associated disorders: the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders. Spine. 2008;33(4):S33-S38. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181644b06.
Smith PM, Frank JW, Mustard C. Monitoring and surveillance of the psychosocial work environment in Canada: a forgotten determinant of health. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2008;99(6):475-482.
Ibrahim S, Smith PM, Muntaner C. Multi-group cross-lagged analyses of work stressors and health using Canadian National sample. Social Science & Medicine. 2008;68(1):49-59. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.10.019.
Guzman J, Hurwitz EL, Carroll LJ, Haldeman S, Cote P, Carragee EJ, Peloso P, van der Velde G, Holm LW, Hogg-Johnson S, Nordin M, Cassidy JD. New conceptual model of neck pain: linking onset, course, and care: The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders. Spine. 2008;33(4):S14-S23. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181643efb.
Bogoch ER, Elliot-Gibson V, Escott BG, Beaton DE. Osteoporosis needs of patients with wrist fracture. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. 2008;22(8):S73-S78. doi:10.1097/BOT.0b013e31815e9ff7.
Hurley J, Pasic D, Lavis JN, Mustard C, Culyer AJ, Gnam W. Parallel lines do intersect: interactions between the Workers' Compensation and provincial publicly financed healthcare systems in Canada. Healthcare Policy. 2008;3(4):100-112.
Hurley J, Pasic D, Lavis JN, Culyer AJ, Mustard C, Gnam W. Parallel payers and preferred access: how Canada's Workers' Compensation Boards expedite care for injured and ill workers. Healthcare Papers. 2008;8(3):42900.
Cote P, Baldwin ML, Johnson WG, Frank JW, Butler RJ. Patterns of sick-leave and health outcomes in injured workers with back pain. European Spine Journal. 2008;17(4):484-493. doi:10.1007/s00586-007-0577-6.
Cote P, Kristman VL, Vidmar M, Van Eerd D, Hogg-Johnson S, Beaton DE, Smith PM. Prevalence and incidence of work absenteeism involving neck pain: a cohort of Ontario lost-time claimants. Spine. 2008;33(4):S192-S198. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181644616.