‘We’re focusing on the most invisible of injuries’: research project targets mental health at work

‘We’re focusing on the most invisible of injuries’: research project targets mental health at work

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Canadian Mental Health Association
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Health
Ivy Bourgeault
Leave of Absence
Mental Health
mental health at work
mental health in the workplace
mental health job
mental health research
News
Return To Work
Telfer School of Management
University of Ottawa
Jan 24, 2019

[ad_1] Cross-country research led by the University of Ottawa, backed by $1.4M in federal funding, aims to get a better sense of mental health problems on the job — and offer solutions. “Looking at issues around psychological health and safety particularly at work, the opportunities to take leaves of absence and to encourage return to[…]

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Research project on injured workers heading back to the job gets $1.4M funding boost

Research project on injured workers heading back to the job gets $1.4M funding boost

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Back To Work
Canada Research Chair on Occupational Health and Safety Law
Features
Health
hurt on the job
IAVGO
Injured Workers
Katherine Lippel
News
Occupational Health and Safety
reintegration
Stigma
University of Ottawa
Workers Compensation
workers' comp
Workplace Injuries
Workplace Injury
Jan 23, 2019

[ad_1] Sang-Hun Mun came to Toronto from Korea in 2004 and began a carpentry apprenticeship. The following year, he fell off a roof onto the concrete ground below. “I broke my right foot…I got injured, my neck and shoulder and back,” he said. Mun still feels the effects of that injury today. He says he[…]

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