Impact of a Cleaners’ Strike on Compensation Claims for Asthma among Teachers in Ontario

Marcos Ribeiro; Larisa V Buyantseva; Gary M Liss; Carol E Luce; Susan M Tarlo

doi:10.1155/2013/457582

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2013)

Impact of a Cleaners’ Strike on Compensation Claims for Asthma among Teachers in Ontario

Marcos Ribeiro,
Larisa V Buyantseva,
Gary M Liss,
Carol E Luce,
Susan M Tarlo

Affiliations

Marcos Ribeiro: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Larisa V Buyantseva: Gage Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
Gary M Liss: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Carol E Luce: Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Susan M Tarlo: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/457582
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 20, no. 3
pp. 171 – 174

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: A review of Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) claims in Ontario from 1998 to 2002 showed an unusual spike in the number of claims accepted for work-exacerbated asthma (WEA) in April 2001.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/crj/

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