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President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP May 2019
... a reality TV show have all created a collective unease. In health care, we’re seeing soaring costs due to bureaucracy, ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP May 2019
... is positioned to continue caring and advocating for the health of our patients, our communities, and our colleagues. ... with the Canadian Medical Association, government, health authorities, the University of British Columbia, and ... on the same team caring for the same patients in the same health care system. After everything that has happened this ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2019
... 2 , 3 ] The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently launched a framework addressing ... experts have been delivering an outreach program to health care providers. The sessions, “Not just a ... ). The intent is to bring together community health care providers such as physicians, nurse ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC May 2019
... country in the past 6 months, consult the local public health department to assess and manage rabies risk.[ 3 ] ... diseases and zoonotic exposures to the local medical health officer. —Eleni Galanis, MD Physician ... Service, BCCDC —Steven Trerise, CPHI(C) Environmental Health Officer, Communicable Disease, Fraser Health Authority ...
Premise / BY: Kelly Anne Cox, MD, MPH May 2019
... Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine in recommending long-acting reversible ... oral birth control available at the province’s sexual health clinics costs $13 per pack ($468 for 3 years),[ 5 ] ... a stay in a neonatal intensive care unit.[ 11 ] At sexual health clinics across the province, oral contraceptives are ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Elizabeth Wiley, MD, JD, MPH May 2019
... an increase of 1.3 to 2.7 °C projected by 2050.[ 1 ] The health effects of this warming are numerous and multifaceted ... have both direct and indirect implications for mental health and psychosocial well-being.[ 2 ] Specifically, ... climate change has been associated with numerous mental health conditions including posttraumatic stress disorder ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi May 2019
... System, about three-quarters of Canadians who used health services for a mental illness annually consulted for ... to their GP for care. In fact, 80% of people with mental health issues receive care in the primary care setting.[ 4 ] ... of Family Practice also supporting the project as a mental health initiative for South Vancouver Island. The skills ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Julian Marsden, MD May 2019
... of practice was considered rural by the BC Ministry of Health’s Rural Practice Subsidiary Agreement, which ... Network members. Instead, most followers are partners and health organizations, health care workers, researchers, students, and members of ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jacob L. Stubbs, BKin May 2019
... funded through a GoFundMe campaign, then the provincial health minister at the time recognized the benefit of these ... Insite we had limitations to what we could help with. In Health Canada’s language, assisted injection is having a health care provider actually pushing the plunger, and we ...
Letters / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP June 2019
... and not what is perceived to benefit the system, better health care will ensue. We need flexibility and readiness to ... Hospital (Dr Gillian Lauder), and at Vancouver Coastal Health (Barb Eddy, NP). Vancouver Community Pain Service has ... other therapies in marginalized populations with mental health and addictions. In your profile in UBC Medicine (Vol. ...