Health Reports

A Canadian peer-reviewed journal of population health and health services research

December 2021

Measuring workplace psychosocial factors in the federal government

by Ann-Renée Blais, Isabelle Michaud, Jean-François Simard, Lenka Mach and Simon Houle

One in three Canadians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. Furthermore, approximately half a million Canadians are expected to miss work in a typical week because of such a problem or illness. Because two-thirds of Canadians spend 60% or more of their time at work, the need for Canadian institutions and organizations, irrespective of their sector or size, to manage mental health issues within their workplaces is clear.

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Significant factors associated with problematic use of opioid pain relief medications among the household population, Canada, 2018

by Gisèle Carrière, Rochelle Garner and Claudia Sanmartin

Pain and its management are fundamental to the opioid overdose crisis, leading some to call for a national pain strategy. This persisting public health emergency has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, which has disrupted opioid harm reduction initiatives and health care services. Pain management has primarily relied on prescription opioids as treatment, and this has contributed to the development of the opioid crisis in Canada. Prescription opioid use has increased over the past two decades in North America, as have overdoses, poisonings and deaths related to both prescription and non-prescription (illicit) opioid use.

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