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A Canadian peer-reviewed journal of population health and health services research
June 2019
Analysis of trends in the prevalence of cannabis use and related metrics in Canada
Cannabis is one of the most widely used substance in Canada with close to half of all Canadians aged 15 or older reporting having tried it.
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Cumulative toll of exposure to stressors in Canadians: An allostatic load profile
by Errol M. Thomson, Harun Kalayci and Mike Walker
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and the greatest burden on health care systems in Canada and around the world. In addition to age and heredity, determinants of morbidity and mortality include behavioural factors (e.g., diet, tobacco use, physical activity levels) and environmental stressors (e.g., neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation, exposure to pollutants, noise). Gradients in health associated with individual and societal factors have prompted investigation of underlying mechanisms to inform risk assessment and management initiatives. Estimating cumulative or combined impacts of stressors is a significant challenge for risk assessment; there are multiple pathways to morbidity and mortality, and resulting health impacts may depend on the nature, timing, magnitude, and duration of exposures as well as individual susceptibility factors. A key knowledge gap hampering assessment of cumulative and combined effects of stressors (broadly defined and encompassing psychosocial, physical, and chemical) is the lack of metric or metrics to characterize risk due to interactions of multiple stressors in the human population. Moreover, inter-individual differences in stress response and resilience present a further complication, as these are rarely captured in epidemiological studies and may modify the effects of a given stressor.
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