Starting this spring, frontline officers with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will use a screening tool developed at Waterloo to assess mental health issues, allowing for improved transitions from police custody to hospital care.
It started with just 30 seconds and a chalkboard. Now an award-winning campaign that saw students across campus show their support for mental health will expand its scope with new peer discussion groups.
With its first Ontario-focused study released today, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) at the University of Waterloo analyzes how well people in the province are really doing in the areas of their lives that matter the most.
Two researchers in University of Waterloo's Faculty of Applied Health Sciences are among recipients of the province of Ontario's Early Researcher Awards.
The Early Researcher Awards program helps promising and recently appointed researchers make new discoveries while creating jobs for graduate and undergraduate students, post-doctoral fellows and research assistants. Each award consists of $150,000 over five years to support the development of a research team.
Applied Health Sciences recipients are:
A financially secure retirement is becoming the exception not the norm, says Lee Anne Davies, CEO of Agenomics, a consulting firm specializing in money management and aging.
On February 8, 2014, student teams from Waterloo’s School of Public Health and Health Systems claimed two of the three finalist spots in Round One of the 2014 Case Evaluation Society (CES-CESEF) Case Competition.
High-caffeine energy drinks are designed to give you a boost, but a new study has found that teens prone to depression, and those who use drugs and alcohol, are more likely to consume them.
The uplifting effects of energy drinks are well advertised, but a new report finds consumption among teenagers may be linked with poor mental health and substance use.
Involvement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) sport groups makes gay and lesbian athletes feel better about their sexual identity and helps them come out in their everyday lives, according to research from the University of Waterloo.