Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Work precarity, employment characteristics and health among Canada's long-term care and seniors' home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health Rep. 2024 Feb 21;35(2):3-16. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400200001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in Canada's long-term care and seniors' (LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff retention difficulties, overcrowding, and precarious working conditions. There is currently a lack of information on the health, well-being and working conditions of health care workers in LTCS homes - many of them immigrants - and a limited understanding of the relationship between them. This paper examines differences between immigrant and non-immigrant workers' h...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Valentina Antonipillai Edward Ng Andrea Baumann Mary Crea-Arsenio Dafna Kohen Source Type: research
Reported need for and access to oral health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
The objective of this study was to describe the reported need for, access to, and receipt of oral health care in Canada during the first year of the pandemic.DATA AND METHODS: The 2021 Survey on Access to Health Care and Pharmaceuticals During the Pandemic collected information from Canadians aged 18 years and older. Respondents were asked whether they needed (routine) dental care in the previous 12 months, whether they received that care, whether they experienced any mouth or tooth pain (indicative of a dental emergency), and whether and how COVID-19 affected service access.RESULTS: Of the 44.5% of Canadians who reported ...
Source: Health Reports - February 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kellie Murphy Didier Garriguet Michelle Rotermann Source Type: research
Where do 15- to -17-year-olds in Canada get their sexual health information?
Health Rep. 2024 Jan 17;35(1):3-13. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400100001-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Sexual health education delivered in school, provided by parents, or provided by other formal sources has been associated most closely with increased rates of condom use and improvements in many other sexual risk behaviours. Friends and the internet are other information sources, although quality and accuracy are not always as high. Nationally representative Canadian data about where adolescents obtain their sexual health information are lacking.DATA AND METHODS: Weighted data from the 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and ...
Source: Health Reports - January 17, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Michelle Rotermann Alexander McKay Source Type: research
Factors associated with shingles and pneumococcal vaccination among older Canadians
Health Rep. 2024 Jan 17;35(1):14-24. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202400100002-eng.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases such as shingles and pneumococcal disease is especially pertinent among older Canadians. However, vaccine uptake remains low.DATA AND METHODS: Data from the Canadian Health Survey on Seniors (CHSS) - 2019/2020 were used to examine receipt of shingles and pneumococcal vaccines among Canadians aged 65 and older living in the community. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify individual predisposing, enabling and needs-related factors associated with receipt of each t...
Source: Health Reports - January 17, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Heather Gilmour Source Type: research
