Reports & Books

Mental Health

Researching Health in Ontario Communities — Findings from our First Communities: Port Colborne and Welland (PDF)

This report describes key findings from the Researching Health in Ontario Communities project, which features a mobile research laboratory that visits various Ontario communities.

Health State Descriptions for Canadians: Mental Illnesses
(with Statistics Canada)
This document has standardized descriptions for the main health states associated with the progression and treatment of mental illnesses. These descriptions are the first step in measuring how living with a disease and its treatment affects health-related quality of life in terms of physical, mental, and social well-being.

Gambling

The History of Problem Gambling: Temperance, Substance Abuse, Medicine, and Metaphors. In this book, Drs. Peter Ferentzy and Nigel E. Turner document the history of ideas about problem gambling and its link to addictive disorders (April 2013).

Tobacco Use

Disease Interrupted: Tobacco Reduction And Cessation
The first Canadian text for treating tobacco addiction. Read more on the University of Alberta site.

Neuroscience
Brain, Behavior and Epigenetics. Co-edited by Dr. Art Petronis, this book looks at the breakthroughs and remaining challenges in understanding the role of epigenetic processes in brain function and behavior.

Alcohol Use

Reducing Alcohol-Related Harms and Costs in Ontario: A Provincial Summary Report. This report documents current alcohol policy initiatives across Canada and draws comparisons across the provinces (June 2013).

Strategies to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms and Costs in Canada: A Comparison of Provincial Policies (PDF)
This report reviews Canadian province's policies and programs that have the potential to reduce the considerable health and social harms from alcohol.

Model-Based Appraisal of Alcohol Minimum Pricing in Ontario and British Columbia (PDF) (with the University of Sheffield and the Centre for Addictions Research of BC).
This report provides estimates of the impacts on health, crime and government revenues from different alcohol pricing policies in Ontario and British Columbia.