Preventing Occupational Disease: Designing a System that Works
This project will undertake a critical scan of existing research and policies to identify best practices for early detection of exposures that can lead to occupational disease. It will focus on four categories of occupational disease: noise-induced hearing loss, occupational cancers, occupational asthma, and occupational dermatitis.
The scan will be used to devise a set of recommendations for the design of a system for early detection of exposures and early diagnoses that are likely to work most effectively and efficiently in Canadian provinces and regions.
| Principal Applicant: | Barb Neis/Stephen Bornstein (Memorial University) |
| Co-investigators: | Hugh Davies (UBC), Paul Demers (Cancer Care Ontario), Linn Holness (St. Michael’s Hospital & University of Toronto), Allen Kraut (University of Manitoba), Mary Shortall (Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour), Mieke Koehoorn (UBC), Colin Murray (WorkSafeBC), Susan Stock (Institut national de santé publique du Quebec), Victoria Arrandale (Cancer Care Ontario), Ziwei Gao (Memorial University), Alec Farquhar (Ontario Mininstry of Labour) |
| Funding Awarded: | $50,000* (Innovation) |
* Funding from Alberta and New Brunswick
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