Kate Turcotte's research while affiliated with BC Children's Hospital and other places

... Acute poisonings imply a high cost for health systems and society. One study reported that care for poisoning and its implications after hospitalization required approximately 812.5 million dollars for people between 25 and 64 years of age (3). ...

... Polish and foreign literature list several works on the physical fitness of firefighters, and the influence of fitness on the effective implementation of rescue operations. Garano (23) showed that ballbased team sports played by firefighters while on duty bring financial consequences to the system in the form of prolonged indisposition of injured firefighters, the need for replacements, as well as injury compensation for injured officers. In some cases, an injury suffered during a ball game may be the reason for early retirement. ...

... to colleagues (71%) [6]. The tool consists of eight online concussion education modules, each tailored to a specific audience. ...

... Studies of unintentional cannabis ingestion suggest that poisoning typically occurs in young children (≤ 3 years old, on average) (Claudet et al., 2017;Richards et al., 2017;Spadari et al., 2009). It has been reported that when age groups for children include early teenage years (i.e., <16 years old), the majority of cases are due to intentional exploratory cannabis ingestion compared to unintentional ingestion (Cheng et al., 2020;Wang, 2022). A study at the British Columbia Children's Hospital ED from 2016 to 2018 (prior to the federal legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada) reported that less than 8.0% of cases of cannabis poisoning in children, who were less than 16 years old, were due to inadvertent cannabis ingestion (Cheng et al., 2020). ...

... In British Columbia, after policy change, an increasing trend in fallrelated mortality was noted. However, among person aged ≥80 yr, this was followed by an increase in natural deaths with fall as the contributing cause (33). In Addition, many physicians in Serbia as a cause of death report just the early but not late complications, which had been caused by the fall because they lack the information about the fall itself. ...

... To study public health issues in relation to socioeconomic status, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ), a public health institute in Quebec, Canada, developed a neighbourhood deprivation index with six socioeconomic indicators-three material and three social-extracted from Canadian census data [14]. This index was validated in Quebec [15] and used in Canadian research [16], including pediatric studies [17]. Material deprivation indicates a community's possession of everyday goods and commodities, and social deprivation reflects the social networks of those living within an area [14]. ...

... Analysis' of the outcomes of injuries and how they are linked to geographic location and demographics have also been conducted in several studies including a 2019 study which examined the association between injury mortality, geography and sex as it related to youth suicide, senior falls and transport injuries [41]. Furthermore, a study conducted by Keeves and others (2019) used electronic databases of various studies to investigate the outcomes of traumatic injury and their geographic variations, globally. ...

... Within the past decades, numerous safety promotion and injury prevention efforts have been in effect in B.C. These include, among others, the institution of the B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU), the development of the Canadian Falls Prevention Curriculum [9], Preventable [10][11][12], Road Safety Strategy 2015 and Beyond [13], Concussion Awareness Training Tool (CATT) [14,15], and Active & Safe Central [16]. One of the essential components required for successful and sustainable implementation of public health interventions includes the communication of accurate, timely, and concise information to decision-makers and other key stakeholders [17]. ...

... As indicated in many studies, firefighters carry relatively high risk to exposures, work-related injuries and diseases attached to their occupation. The previous studies provide more understanding on the causes of injury, disease, and fatality among Canadian firefighters [1], [2]. The study conducted in 2018 on the Association Worker's Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC) data presents a detail analysis of injury claims from 2006 to 2015 for professional and volunteer firefighters so that priorities can be defined for targeted health promotion and injury prevention interventions [2]. ...

... In addition, it should be noted that cyclists not required by law to wear helmets in many countries (Macpherson et al., 2002;Molina-García and Queralt, 2016). Furthermore, the continued use of helmets while cycling has been reported to be low in many countries (Karl et al., 2018;Kılınç and Kartal, 2022;Nykolyshyn et al., 2003). For example, the Netherlands and Denmark (arguably the main cycling countries) have the lowest cycling fatality rates in the world, even though most cyclists in these countries do not wear helmets (Buehler and Pucher, 2021). ...