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Financial strain top source of worry in COVID-19 mental health crisis: public health researcher
Financial strain is affecting Canadians’ mental and physical health and addressing it will be key to the country’s post-COVID social and economic recovery, according to public health professor Candace Nykiforuk.
Nykiforuk and her team received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Alberta Innovates to study ways to address the health impacts of the pandemic related to financial strain.
“Our project is evaluating policies and programs that help people achieve a standard of living that supports quality of life and keeps them out of the health-care system as long as possible,” said Nykiforuk, who is also associate dean of research and research programs in the School of Public Health and director of the Centre for Healthy Communities.