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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP October 2023
... and may not fully capture the nature of anxiety in older people, especially among ethnic and racial minority groups. ... need to recognize the prevalence of anxiety, as many people go their entire lives normalizing it without seeking ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Nicola Y. Edwards, MHA January/February 2023
... the opioid crisis and provide effective intervention. Many people who die of opioid overdose have recently interacted ... an opportunity for intervention. In one analysis, 77% of people had contact with the health care system in the year ... ( P = .0006). Discussion Our results indicate that people who present with an opioid overdose have frequently ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... Service Pilot Project and compares this with the number of people in BC who described each language as their only mother ... 3.6% (n = 838). For all of BC, the number of calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency was 15.1. Vancouver had 46.9 calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency, followed by Nanaimo ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... has become a popular umbrella term for whatever distresses people in their work.[ 26 ] Recently published studies ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maggie Wong, PharmD, ACPR June 2022
... effort, antimicrobial resistance is predicted to kill more people than cancer by the year 2050.[ 1 ] The human cost is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nicole J. Todd, MD, FRCSC March 2022
... should be integrated into gender-affirming health care. People with reproductive potential should be screened for and ... gender nonbinary, gender-diverse, and Two Spirit people (TGD), including the need for contraception, emergency ... to those who were assigned female at birth. Background TGD people experience barriers in accessing contraceptive care ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jennifer Balfour, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... not have optimal vaccine health. Additionally, Indigenous people, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, are at an ... medical care and restore the trust of Indigenous people in the medical system using culturally safe resources ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick Ho Pun Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... B has a worldwide prevalence of more than 250 million people.[ 2 ] Areas with high endemicity include Asia, Africa, ... and parts of South America. In Canada, up to 480 000 people may be infected.[ 3 , 4 ] The population groups with ... include immigrants from endemic countries, Indigenous people, and people who inject drugs.[ 4 ] In BC, local ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Wiesenthal, BA March 2022
... gender identity. Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people express interest in parenthood at similar rates as ... as transgender or gender-diverse, and 40% to 54% of TGD people desire to be parents.[ 1 , 2 ] Overall, a small but ... it is essential that health care providers counsel TGD people about the options for fertility preservation before ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP October 2022
... 1 ] The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People defines sarcopenia as a muscle disease (failure) ... in the province continues to grow, optimal care for people with sarcopenia is essential to address the high ...