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Clinical Articles / BY: M. Ryan, MSc November 2003
... to be immediately popular, having trained over 12 000 people since their inception in 1998. This success is thought ... in the 12th week. The intermediate program is designed for people who have completed the novice walk/run program and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2003
... by the Greater Vancouver Mental Health Services by Chinese people has risen from 7.5% in 1990 to 9% in 1993 and 12.3% in ... findings help to dispel the misconception that all Chinese people are the same. There are differences in terms of how ...
Clinical Articles / BY: N. Miller, BSc/BPHE November 2003
... while Kangoo Jumps are suitable for most body types, some people with larger calves may not be able to get a snug fit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... As a result, courts have become clogged with addicted people; in Canada over 50 000 people were charged with drug offences in 1999 and an ... the United States. For instance, America has 100 000 more people behind bars for non-violent drug offences than the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC July/August 2002
... behave remarkably the same; and yet very differently from people in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. ... is a key to the whiplash phenomenon. In one study, 39 people with chronic neck pain were investigated. Five of the ... Physical sources of pain can and do exist, but it is how people interpret the significance of that pain in relation to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD May 2002
... in December in Abbotsford, with approximately 150 people immunized. As of March 2002, these public health ... transient inhabitant of the nose and throat of healthy people, where it will typically persist for periods ranging ... cases. At any one time, between 10% and 20% of healthy people (corresponding to between 400000 and 800000 people in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marcos Gobrial, MD, CCFP December 2002
... Bella Coola serve an estimated clinic population of 2750 people. [2]  Each year these physicians see more than 8000 ... may also be due to the greater percentage of aboriginal people who live in these areas. [2,6]  Native people in British Columbia, across Canada, and across North ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Theresa Isomura, MD, FRCPC October 2002
... Psychiatry in BC 1995/1996 Report  identified that 60% of people with schizophrenia and 83% of people with any mental illnesses in the Simon Fraser Area ... unable to intervene. The program has empowered me to help people earlier because I recognize the psychiatric component ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2002
... British Columbia’s rural communities of fewer than 7000 people are between 60% and 80%. [5]  If a community has 10 ... Typical retention rates for communities with 7000 or more people are higher, between 85% to 90%. A recent decrease in ... of physician services, and ultimately, better care for the people living in under-serviced rural Canada. [20-23] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Chris Whittington, MB BS, MBA, FCFP, FACRRM December 2002
... is probably the most common inherited disorder of people of northern European ancestry. Once it was thought to ... cirrhosis, and pigmentation likely occurs in 1 in 20 000 people. However, the disorder, with its protean ... The prevalence is between 1 in 200 to 1 in 400 in people of northern European ancestry. [2,3]  An even higher ...