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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 ...
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 ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong October 2022
... generating feelings of hesitancy among pregnant people and people who plan to conceive. Recently, vaccine clinical ... A Canada-wide study, CANCOVID-Preg, reported that pregnant people with COVID-19 infection have a stillbirth rate of ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: O. Maheshwari, MD November 2022
... the age of 40 years.[ 2 ] In British Columbia one in four people experience a mental health condition each year.[ 3 ] ... of the pandemic,[ 6 ] which disproportionately affected people who were already experiencing health inequities prior to the pandemic: women, LGBTQIA2S+ people, individuals with likelihood of job loss or inadequate ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2022
... Europe and elsewhere, Canada has seen continuous waves of people from different lands and cultures. As of 2011, Canada had a foreign-born population of about 6 775 800 people, representing 20.6% of the population, the highest ... groups surpassing the 1 million mark. Seven out of 10 people lived in Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver.[ 1 ] In BC, ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Anthony W. Chow, MD, FACP, FRCPC May 2022
... where one infectious diseases physician served 110 000 people in 1987, Canada delivered only one infectious diseases ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD March 2021
... there is another reason why listening is so important. People do not want to follow people who don’t listen. It’s a fundamental human need to ... minutes per day to scan through the viewpoints of credible people, then I could get on with my life. I did have a good ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD December 2021
... all they have known. My daughter thinks it is normal for people to wear masks and that we rarely have play dates ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2021
... surgery.[ 8 ] While prescreening can identify some people who are at increased risk of harboring COVID-19 ... prevalence rates, without preoperative testing, infected people will undergo elective surgery and have an increased ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB January/February 2021
... those of us who do to keep them safe. I suspect that the people who do not wear masks are also the people who do not avoid gatherings. Do they do so out of ... illness. The pandemic has also brought out the best in people. So many health care workers and frontline workers of ...