Public Health Ontario, 480 University Avenue, Suite 300, Toronto, ON, M5G 1V2, Canada Rachel E. Laxer & Sarah Carsley Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St, Room 500, Toronto, ON, M5T 3M7, Canada Sarah Carsley School of Public Health Sciences, Univer...
"That's when you want to be out with your friends and doing a bunch of things and, you know, flu is capable of making that time quite miserable." Not all provinces and territories are reporting a five per cent positivity rate yet. For example, Public Health Ontario's late...
A mixed methods investigation of the relationship between blood donor policy, interest in donation, and willingness to donate among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Ontario, Canada. BMC Public Health. 2022 Apr 28;22(1):849. Vesnaver E, Goldman M, O’Brien S, ...
We conducted chi-squares tests comparing the size of these coefficients and found that for all three public health measures, the coefficients for NI were stronger than the coefficients for NN and PI (ps < 0.001). Taken together, the three predictors accounted for 8% of the person-level ...
The Ontario Public Health Laboratories system (OPHL) is in the midst of a six-year plan to implement molecular tools for pandemic influenza diagnostics in one central and three regional public health laboratories. This plan has been formulated as a consequence of: 1) experiences gained through ...
The Ontario government has also set up a website with a self-assessment tool. It basically asks these questions: –do you have a fever, new cough or difficulty breathing (or a combination of these symptoms)? –do you have muscle aches, fatigue, headache, sore throat, runny nose or diarrh...
Two views of self-rated general health status (Statistics Canada, 1994鈥 95, 1996鈥 97, NPHS public use microdata documentation. Ottawa, Ontario: Statistics Canada; n=7505), our analysis tests a ... DS Bailis,A Segall,JG Chipperfield - 《Social Science & Medicine》...
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/laboratory-services/test-information-index/covid-19-voc 24. McGrath JM. Here’s Ontario’s booster-shot plan. TVO Today. Accessed January 25, 2022. https://www.tvo.org/article/heres-ontarios-booster-shot-plan 25. Government of Ontario. Ontario ...
Two public health epidemiologists who worked in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic provided feedback on the findings of this review. They suggested that nearly every surveillance system or program was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; some paused due to resource reallocation. Several key metrics...
On Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health issued a notice, effective Feb. 10, to cap reimbursements for indirect costs (IDC) associated with its grants. The world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, the NIH supports investigations into, among other things, efforts to fight can...