Special Issue of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: The Opioid Crisis in Canada

This comes from the Public Health Agency of Canada

Special Issue of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: The Opioid Crisis in Canada – Enhancing Knowledge to Support Action, Part I

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol 38, No 6, June 2018

Guest Editor: Fiona Kouyoumdjian

Issue includes:

Commentary – Building the evidence base for sustained public health response to the opioid epidemic in Canada
Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada

Evidence synthesis – The opioid crisis in Canada: a national perspective
Lisa Belzak, Jessica Halverson

Canadian trends in opioid-related mortality and disability from opioid use disorder from 1990 to 2014 through the lens of the Global Burden of Disease Study
Heather M. Orpana, Justin J. Lang, Maulik Baxi, Jessica Halverson, Nicole Kozloff, Leah Cahill, Samiah Alam, Scott Patten, Howard Morrison

At-a-glance – Hospitalizations and emergency department visits due to opioid poisoning in Canada
Shannon O’Connor, Vera Grywacheski, Krista Louie

At-a-glance – Impact of drug overdose-related deaths on life expectancy at birth in British Columbia
Xibiao Ye, Jenny Sutherland, Bonnie Henry, Mark Tyndall, Perry Robert William Kendall

At-a-glance – Lessons learned from launching the Manitoba Take-Home Naloxone Program
Songul Bozat-Emre, Shelley G. Marshall, Colin Zhong, Joss Reimer

Evaluating the early impacts of delisting high-strength opioids on patterns of prescribing in Ontario
Qi Guan, Wayne Khuu, Diana Martins, Mina Tadrous, Maria Chiu, Minh T. Do, Tara Gomes

At-a-glance – What can social media tell us about the opioid crisis in Canada?
Semra Tibebu, Vicky C. Chang, Charles-Antoine Drouin, Wendy Thompson, Minh T. Do

 

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