Hillsborough Bridge redesign won t include suicide prevention barriers
Major work on the Hillsborough Bridge won t include suicide prevention barriers, despite barriers being one of the key recommendations in the province s suicide prevention strategy in 2018.
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Quebec urged to list burnout as an occupational disease in update to workplace safety laws
Labour groups and medical specialists want burnout categorized as an occupational disease, meaning it would be considered the same way lung cancer is for construction workers exposed to asbestos.
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Collaboration brings together existing suicide prevention services and advocates for a national, three-digit phone number
TORONTO, Feb. 4, 2021 /CNW/ - Now more than ever, people in need of immediate mental health support are turning to distress centres for help. People living in Canada need an easy way to ask for assistance during their time of greatest need.
That is why the Public Health Agency of Canada is providing $21 million over five years to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to implement and sustain a fully operational pan-Canadian suicide prevention service in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and Crisis Services Canada (CSC). This service will provide people across Canada with expanded access to 24/7/365 bilingual crisis support from trained responders, via voice, text and online chat.
Doctors call for systemic change to tackle burnout among health-care workers
As health-care workers feel the exhaustion of the pandemic setting in, some doctors say medical organizations must do more to prevent burnout among front-line employees.
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Posted: Feb 02, 2021 5:07 PM ET | Last Updated: February 2
In the Canadian Medical Association s 2017 National Physician Health Survey, 30 per cent of physicians and medical residents reported high levels of burnout. But one doctor who focuses on burnout and resilience estimates that number is even higher, especially because of the pandemic.(Massimo Pinca/Reuters)