Publications by authors named "Christine Blaser"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess disparities in COVID-19 mortality linked to neighborhood vulnerability, highlighting areas for public health interventions.
- Vulnerable neighborhoods accounted for over 60% of COVID-19 deaths, with biological susceptibility and indoor exposure being significant risks.
- The findings suggest that public health strategies should specifically target the most impacted domains of vulnerability to effectively reduce mortality rates.
Lockdowns and cycling injuries: temporal analysis of rates in Quebec during the first year of the pandemic.
Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can
June 2023
Introduction: Cycling increased in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the impact on cycling injuries is not known. We examined the effect of lockdowns on cycling injury hospitalizations.
Methods: We identified hospitalizations for cycling injuries in Quebec, Canada, between April 2006 and March 2021.
Article Synopsis
- - The study examined whether child maltreatment hospitalizations were misclassified as unintentional injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on children aged 0-4 in Quebec, Canada, from April 2006 to March 2021.
- - Results showed a decrease in maltreatment hospitalizations from 16.3 to 13.2 per 100,000 during the first lockdown, while specific unintentional injuries, like falls involving another person, increased significantly.
- - The findings suggest that cases of child maltreatment may have been overlooked or misclassified during the pandemic, indicating a need for better assessment of children admitted for unintentional injuries to ensure the detection of possible maltreatment.
Background: Canadian and international data suggest the risk of myocarditis and/or pericarditis is elevated during the week after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, particularly in younger age groups, in males, and after second doses.
Objectives: This article examines whether there is a product-specific difference in the risk for myocarditis and/or pericarditis between the two mRNA vaccines administered in Canada: BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna Spikevax).
Materials And Methods: Reporting rates of myocarditis and/or pericarditis were calculated from reports received by the Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization Surveillance System from December 2020-March 2022.
Previous studies on socioeconomic position (SEP) and risk of prostate cancer (PCa) have produced contradictory results. Most measured SEP only once during the individuals' life span. The aim of the study was to identify life course models that describe best the relationship between SEP measured during childhood/adolescence, early- and late-adulthood, and risk of PCa overall as well as according to tumor aggressiveness at diagnosis.
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