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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Hetesh Ranchod, MD, FRCPC January/February 2020
... Loss. Support groups: In-person and telephone groups for people in the early stages of dementia and groups for ... Minds in Motion: A social and fitness program for people with mild cognitive impairment in the early stages of ... access to community resources. A study has shown that people who were referred directly to First Link by health ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Henry Lau, RD January/February 2020
... food choices As the common first point of contact for people accessing the health care system, physicians play an ... approach to addressing food insecurity is to refer people to charitable food outlets such as food banks; ... a number of systems-level changes to support Indigenous people’s access to both healthy food and their traditional ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew D. Burkey, MD, PhD, MPH January/February 2020
... brought together experts, clinicians, policymakers, and people with lived experience of ACEs to share promising ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Konia Trouton, MD, CCFP, MPH, FCFP January/February 2020
... This is an important consideration because up to 30% of people on Vancouver Island do not have a family physician. ... expressed uncertainty in discussing it with unfamiliar people as they wished to avoid aggressive debates and/or ... providing some form of bereavement support, most referred people to resources (community programs, grief counseling, ...
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC March 2020
... dozens of patents to his name, but with enough publicity people like him can easily become gurus, which is not good. I ...
Letters / BY: Jonathan M. Winner, MD March 2020
... in walk-in clinics, where they could see large numbers of people with relatively minor complaints and would not have to ... boom, and in a few years, there will be thousands more people living here. Who is going to look after all of us? ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2020
... lower mortality rate than SARS but by the sheer number of people infected was responsible for millions of deaths. By ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP March 2020
... Krever inquiry into the blood system after thousands of people received infected blood products in the 1980s.[ 1 , 2 ... makeup of Canada’s population. Potential donors (healthy people between 17 and 35 years of age) can register online by ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC March 2020
... dating back over 100 years (which should scare you) to people like Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke with their aphasia ... the whole universe. Research on things like this leads people to say that consciousness is simply the imperfect ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP March 2020
... of sea level rise, disrupting health services not only for people living near the ocean but those across the province ... Vancouver, which together serve a population of 300 000 people, are vulnerable to a 1-in-500-year storm surge even at ...