Injuries are a leading cause of hospitalization, disability, and death in Canada. In 2018, injuries were associated with over 17,000 deaths, 61,000 disabilities, 230,000 hospitalizations, and 4.6 million emergency department visits, and costed the Canadian economy $29.4 billion, equivalent to $80 million every day. The prevention and minimization of injuries thus presents opportunities to incur cost savings and allocate resources elsewhere in healthcare and public health, and to ultimately reduce the burden of injuries on people’s lives.
The monitoring of unintentional and intentional injuries and targeting interventions to prevent them through public health surveillance is a critical step in reducing the burden of injury. Injury surveillance improves our understanding of the various types of injuries (e.g., falls, poisoning, suicide), their underlying causes and relationships to the social determinants of health, and their trends among population groups.
The journey from pregnancy to childbirth and beyond is a complex process that requires careful attention, informed decision-making, and collaborative efforts from healthcare and public health practitioners, policymakers, researchers, women and their families, and society as a whole.
In this episode, we spoke with Dr Jane Heffernan from York University about using mathematical modelling methods for understanding and controlling infectious diseases in individuals (or immunology) and in populations (or epidemiology), and discuss the differences between within-host and population-level modelling.
This webinar helps deepen attendees’ understanding of how to use responsible Artificial Intelligence, data science and mathematical solutions to improve public health surveillance and response to emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks.
This webinar will explore key barriers and recommendations to Prison Needle Exchange Program (PNEP) access and enrollment. PNEP was implemented in 2018 by the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to provide people in prisons with access to sterile injection equipment.
This webinar will address two analyses of routine surveillance data designed to support parameterisation and construction of mechanistic mathematical models of AMR.
In this episode, we spoke with Dr Melanie Cousins from the Public Health Agency of Canada about some of her PhD work, which was recently published in an article titled “Is scientific evidence enough? Using expert opinion to fill gaps in data in antimicrobial resistance research”.
This webinar will explore evidence for treatment continuity for people who are incarcerated in British Columbia (BC) Provincial Correctional Centres.
This seminar will discuss the importance of health inequalities and how, by closely monitoring and documenting them, public health surveillance provides the foundation for informed decision-making and targeted interventions.
This webinar will provide an overview of the new Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Programs in Canada produced by the National Advisory Committee on Immunizations (NACI).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Wastewater Surveillance Team Lead, will highlight the current landscape of wastewater-based surveillance in the USA, and the lessons that have been learned throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond.
This moderated webinar will discuss the NACI recommendations on seasonal influenza vaccine use for the 2023-2024 season. The webinar will address the role of health care providers in vaccine uptake and will include an overview of the antiviral treatment of influenza. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions.