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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: BCCDC Overdose Drivers Knowledge Translation Group June 2022
... halt the devastating loss of life. Laws that criminalize people for simple possession of drugs and drug use create ... addressing the unequal impacts of overdose on Indigenous people in BC and Canada. Addressing comorbidities and ... preventing overdose deaths. We have to do better. Engaging people with lived and living experience is necessary to ...
News January/February 2022
... back to her community and building relationships with people in her town. She worked with Alberni Drug and Alcohol ...
News September 2022
... for making mental health and addictions care better for people in British Columbia : ...
News March 2022
... January 2022, Two Spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse people in British Columbia can change gender designations on ... of Gender Designation, which includes a self-declaration. People under 19 will also need to provide proof of parent ... support. News Improved gender designation process for people in BC ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... grew up with. There was a great sense of community, great people. We have always had lovely neighbors. Where’s your ... Ladner Pioneer Library; I used to take out more books than people would think I could read, but medicine was my biggest ... life into the world, delivering babies, and then have people take their last breath with you in a palliative ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS November 2022
... how physicians and their teams deliver care for Indigenous people. We have opened our minds and hearts to recognize the ...
Premise / BY: Julie Leising, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... of clinical practice guidelines for the care of TGNC people. The quote she included from this review was not a ... concern that therapists may be dissuaded from treating people with gender dysphoria, as “gender exploratory ...
News / BY: Sandy Zhang, MPH July/August 2022
... of cancer death in Canada and worldwide. In BC, seven people die of lung cancer every day. With 70% of all cases ... and who are not experiencing any symptoms. This includes people who: Are 55 to 74 years of age. Currently smoke or ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... which, in addition to children, particularly affect people with sexually transmitted diseases and women who’ve ...
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 ...