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Premise / BY: H.M.K. McGillivray, BSc December 2020
... deaths from lung cancer can be directly credited to fewer people smoking[ 8 ] and advances in treatment.[ 7 ] Although ...
Premise / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD May 2020
... auditory, or olfactory stimulation to the point that some people may feel intruded upon and react negatively. Today we ... circumstances, the interpersonal distance chosen by people depends on attitudes toward each other, as well as ... neighborhoods, cities, and even countries. Overall, people are resilient to short-term social distancing, ...
Premise / BY: Robin Routledge, MD, FRCPC January/February 2020
... of Care is a comprehensive service mostly for Indigenous people, who are the foundation’s customer-owners (i.e., ... based on the cultural values of the Indigenous Alaskan people who own the SCF. Other examples of important Nuka ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... reported in BC.[ 1 ] COVID-19 disproportionately affects people who use substances, including risk of transmission, ... (SARS-CoV-2) infection, and drug overdose risk. How are people who use substances impacted by COVID-19? People who use substances are often socioeconomically ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Henry Lau, RD January/February 2020
... food choices As the common first point of contact for people accessing the health care system, physicians play an ... approach to addressing food insecurity is to refer people to charitable food outlets such as food banks; ... a number of systems-level changes to support Indigenous people’s access to both healthy food and their traditional ...
Premise / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2020
... and activists have made it clear that they expect people (particularly White people) in positions of leadership and of privilege, who have ... review on breast and cervical cancer in Black Canadians (people of African/Caribbean/Black ancestry living in ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC March 2020
... dating back over 100 years (which should scare you) to people like Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke with their aphasia ... the whole universe. Research on things like this leads people to say that consciousness is simply the imperfect ...
Premise / BY: Marjorie Dixon, MD, FRCSC, FACOG, REI July/August 2020
... of 2020. We can, and must, change the system so that the people treating patients are actually representative of the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP March 2020
... of sea level rise, disrupting health services not only for people living near the ocean but those across the province ... Vancouver, which together serve a population of 300 000 people, are vulnerable to a 1-in-500-year storm surge even at ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Michael Otterstatter, MSc, PhD October 2020
... in a population, scientists track over time how many other people are likely to become infected from a single case. This ... each person with COVID-19 was infecting nearly three other people. Through the spring, BC reduced that number down to ... plays a key role in disease control by quickly identifying people who may have been exposed to the virus. These people ...