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Yona Lunsky
Researcher at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Publications - 281
Citations - 6418
Yona Lunsky is an academic researcher from Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Intellectual disability. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 225 publications receiving 5221 citations. Previous affiliations of Yona Lunsky include Ohio State University & University of Toronto.
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Continuity of primary care and prenatal care adequacy among women with disabilities in Ontario: A population-based cohort study.
TL;DR: In this article , the relationship between continuity of primary care (COC) and prenatal care adequacy among women with disabilities was examined using a population-based study using health administrative data in Ontario, Canada.
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Intellectual/developmental disabilities among people incarcerated in federal correctional facilities in Ontario, Canada: Examining prevalence, health and correctional characteristics.
Flora I. Matheson,Parisa Dastoori,Lisa Whittingham,Andrew Calzavara,Leslie-Anne Keown,Anna Durbin,Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian,Elizabeth H. B. Lin,Tiziana Volpe,Yona Lunsky +9 more
TL;DR: People with intellectual/developmental disabilities are overrepresented in Canadian federal correctional institutions and are at greater risk of emergency department visits, psychiatric and acute hospitalizations, than the non-incarcerated groups.
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Disability and Interpersonal Violence in the Perinatal Period
Hilary K. Brown,Natasha Saunders,Simon Chen,Kelly A. A. Leslie,Simone N. Vigod,Kinwah Fung,Astrid Guttmann,Susan M. Havercamp,Susan L. Parish,Joel G. Ray,Yona Lunsky +10 more
TL;DR: The perinatal period is a time of relative high risk for interpersonal violence among individuals with pre-existing disabilities, especially those with a history of interpersonal violence.
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Matching Special Olympics registration data with administrative health databases: Feasibility and health status differences in children and youth with IDD.
Meghann Lloyd,Kristin Dobranowski,Stephanie Y. Cheng,Viviene A. Temple,John T. Foley,Yona Lunsky,Elizabeth Lin,Robert Balogh +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the feasibility of matching a database of registrants from Special Olympics Ontario (SOO), with population-based health services databases in Ontario, Canada housed at ICES was determined.
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Changing profiles of individuals with autism spectrum disorder admitted to a specialized inpatient unit
TL;DR: It is suggested that individuals who were admitted more recently between July 2009 and December 2013, were younger and more likely to come from other ethnic backgrounds than those admitted between January 2005 and June 2009.