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Editorials / BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN June 2000
... determinants of health—factors that determine why some people are healthy and others are not. Improvement of primary ... system bringing health care as close as possible to where people live and work, and constitutes the first element of a ... health professionals to provide telephone support to help people make decisions regarding their health care and to ...
Editorials / BY: David Doty, MD June 2000
... during the Dirty Thirties and the Second World War. These people, our parents, recognized that medical care must be ...
Blog, COVID-19 / BY: Javis Lui, BA
... in BC. Screening colonoscopies for asymptomatic people with a family history of colon cancer or personal ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... intimate self- or partner-stimulation vary wildly. Some people privately accept masturbation but ridicule it ... Reading books was something new in the early 1700s, and people were absorbed in the stories they read. However, ... commonplace, and that it was most common among educated people. In 1968 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... we started Prior to 1921, a diagnosis of diabetes in young people was a virtual death sentence; the average life ...
Blog / BY: Saeed G. Zavareh, MD
... stand in solidarity and in one voice with the brave people of Iran fighting for freedom and democracy. According ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... personnel respond rationally and effectively to the people in their care.  Forty years later, an article from ... by asking two questions: what are the intimacy concerns of people over the age of 50, and which interventions are ... and sensitive area.[ 2 ] The reviews confirmed that older people may prefer to view sex as expressions of physical and ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... was a relatively small nation of approximately 7.4 million people. Yet more than 619 000 of its citizen served in the ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... packages from distant relatives living in Vancouver, BC—people I’d never know before. Toothpaste, soaps, candy, and ... a Jamaican accent. Looking back, now I wish the admissions people had asked me to take a Canadian history course. It was ... begin to understand the history of this land—and of the people who have lived here for many thousands of years. I ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... physical medical issues. Whereas so far younger people seem to be at lower risk of severe health outcomes, ... to mental health.  In a recent Canadian study, 36% of people 15 to 34 years old, 27% of people 35 to 54 years old, and 14.5% of people 55 and older ...