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A London research team will use a combination of artificial intelligence and traditional fieldwork in the search for a better way to count the number of homeless people in Canada.
That will help agencies and governments across the country assist more people, especially the “invisible homeless” who have little contact with services, said Cheryl Forchuk, assistant scientific director at the Lawson Health Research Institute and a Western University professor.
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Forchuk has been doing research on homelessness for more than two decades, but a major barrier to that research is the lack of numbers.
LONDON, ONT. Researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson) are receiving $40,000 from Veterans Affairs Canada to study the role of personality traits in relation to the mental health of veterans. The research will look at whether an individual s personality traits will serve as risk or protective factors for a veteran developing mental health disorders. Some traits to be researched included include openness, agreeableness, emotionality, honesty-humility, conscientiousness, extraversion, and resiliency. “Past research has identified some risk factors, including history of childhood trauma, age, gender, and education. However, no one to date has investigated the role that personality traits might play in Veterans’ symptoms of mental health conditions,” said Dr. Rachel Plouffe with Lawson.
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New findings from Ontario have shown that children born in Sarnia have a higher risk of developing asthma compared to neighboring cities. A research team from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University, using provincial data from ICES, found that higher air pollution exposure in the first year of life very likely contributed to this higher risk. Their results are published today in CMAJ Open.
May 5, 2021
It seems children born in our region have a higher risk of developing asthma than kids born in other areas.
Researchers at the University of Western Ontario’s Lawson Health Research Institute have spent years looking into the issue and determined Chemical Valley and the air pollutants associated with the petro-chemical industry do make a difference.
They followed 115,000 children for 10 years between 1993 and 2009.
Their findings showed kids born in Sarnia have nearly a 1 in 4 chance of developing asthma.
In Windsor it’s 21%, and 17% for children living in London.
Asthma is the most common chronic illness in kids and can have a major impact on their quality of life.