Please fill out this form if you are interested in attending our EPID Talks on June 29, 2023 from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. EST; participants can join in-person at Lakehead University in the CASES Building room FB 2023, or online through zoom. The map for Lakehead University and the zoom link will be shared with all who fill out this form.
Dr. Jeavana Sritharan & Dr. Nancy Carnide will be presenting their research entitled "Opioids-related harms among Ontario workers in the Occupational Disease Surveillance System."
Summary: The opioid crisis continues to grow in Canada, however current health surveillance systems that monitor opioid-related harms have limited or no employment information. The Occupational Disease Surveillance System (ODSS), designed to detect work-related disease in a large cohort of formerly injured Ontario workers, was recently expanded to identify opioid-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits. In this presentation, Dr. Jeavana Sritharan and Dr. Nancy Carnide will share new findings from analyses of these data, including the occupational groups found to be a highest risk for opioid-related harms and the results comparing rates of opioid-related harms among workers in the ODSS to those in the general Ontario population.
