Managing Safety and Operations: The Effect of Joint Management System Practices on Safety and Operational Outcomes.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether management system practices directed at both occupational health and safety (OHS) and operations (joint management system [JMS] practices) result in better outcomes in both areas than in alternative practices.

Methods: Separate regressions were estimated for OHS and operational outcomes using data from a survey along with administrative records on injuries and illnesses.

Results: Organizations with JMS practices had better operational and safety outcomes than organizations without these practices.

A cost-benefit analysis of peer coaching for overhead lift use in the long-term care sector in Canada.

Objectives: To evaluate whether a peer-coaching programme for patient lift use in British Columbia, Canada, was effective and cost-beneficial.

Methods: We used monthly panel data from 15 long-term care facilities from 2004 to 2011 to estimate the number of patient-handling injuries averted by the peer-coaching programme using a generalised estimating equation model. Facilities that had not yet introduced the programme served as concurrent controls.

The cost of lost productivity due to fetal alcohol spectrum disorder-related premature mortality.

Background: Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) have increased mortality as compared to the general population.

Objectives: To estimate the productivity losses due to premature mortality of individuals with FASD in Canada in 2011.

Methods: A demographic approach with a counterfactual scenario in which nobody in Canada is born with FASD was used.

Productivity losses because of morbidity attributable to fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Canada: a demographic approach.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to estimate the productivity losses due to morbidity of individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

Method: A demographic approach was used. Population estimates were calculated using data for the most recent available year (i.

Bridging the gap between the economic evaluation literature and daily practice in occupational health: a qualitative study among decision-makers in the healthcare sector.

Background: Continued improvements in occupational health can only be ensured if decisions regarding the implementation and continuation of occupational health and safety interventions (OHS interventions) are based on the best available evidence. To ensure that this is the case, scientific evidence should meet the needs of decision-makers. As a first step in bridging the gap between the economic evaluation literature and daily practice in occupational health, this study aimed to provide insight into the occupational health decision-making process and information needs of decision-makers.

Cost of privatisation versus government alcohol retailing systems: Canadian example.

Introduction And Aims: Alcohol retail monopolies have been established in many countries to restrict alcohol availability and thus, minimise alcohol-related harm.The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of the privatisation of alcohol sales on the burden and direct health-care, law enforcement costs and indirect costs (lost productivity due to disability or premature mortality) in Canada.

Design And Methods: Simulation modelling.

Avoidable cost of alcohol abuse in Canada.

Aims: To estimate avoidable burden and avoidable costs of alcohol abuse in Canada for the year 2002.

Methods: A policy effectiveness approach was used. The impact of six effective and cost-effective alcohol policy interventions aimed to reduce alcohol consumption was modeled.

The impact of a smoking cessation policy on visits to a psychiatric emergency department.

Objective: Smoking cessation policies are increasingly imposed in mental health facilities because of the high prevalence of tobacco smoking and its related adverse health consequences. The objective of this study was to measure the impact of 2 smoking cessation policies--one imposed in a specific psychiatric hospital and the other across the entire province of Ontario--on weekly visit rates to a psychiatric emergency department.

Methods: Administrative data records from consecutive patient visits to a psychiatric emergency department were grouped by week from March 1, 2002, to December 31, 2005.

The costs of alcohol, illegal drugs, and tobacco in Canada, 2002.

Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate costs attributable to substance use and misuse in Canada in 2002.

Method: Based on information about prevalence of exposure and risk relations for more than 80 disease categories, deaths, years of life lost, and hospitalizations attributable to substance use and misuse were estimated. In addition, substance-attributable fractions for criminal justice expenditures were derived.