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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Henry Lau, RD January/February 2020
It has been a year since Health Canada released the new Canada’s Food Guide, which ... environments, and income (i.e., the determinants of health) are not addressed in the public-facing tools. Health Canada has included a discussion of health inequities ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew D. Burkey, MD, PhD, MPH January/February 2020
... Summit 2019 was hosted by the Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use (CYMHSU) Community of Practice, an ... The summit brought together over 500 physicians, allied health professionals, education representatives, and ... of over 9000 adults brought the issue into the public health spotlight.[ 3 ] This study in a primarily white, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Konia Trouton, MD, CCFP, MPH, FCFP January/February 2020
... be integral to end-of-life care and morally important, our health care infrastructure does not facilitate a role for ... this service can be accessed through the website of the health authority (Island Health) or other online or print sources, and patients can ...
News March 2020
... the drug provides the most benefit for preventing adverse health events. Two hundred and seventeen adults who regularly ...
News March 2020
... (RIH) in Kamloops. Launched in partnership with Interior Health and Royal Inland Hospital Foundation, the new family ...
News March 2020
BC health care professionals and stakeholders are invited to ... partners in areas such as pharmacy, laboratory procedures, health authorities, public health, and professional colleges and associations. All ...
News March 2020
... potentially reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Using BC health data that include information on prescriptions, health care visits, and hospitalizations, Arthritis Research ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD March 2020
... or conduct risk assessments for potential adverse health effects. There have been numerous studies done to evaluate the health effects of fragrances. An article in Environmental ... a paper from 2019, “Fragrance inhalation and adverse health effects: The question of causation.”[ 3 ] The ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2020
... the novel Wuhan coronavirus has been declared a world health emergency by the World Health Organization. At this point, there have been about 14 ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD March 2020
... to take a hard look at the basic tenets of care that, as health care providers, we want to keep and work diligently to ... to leave their community to seek care, what happens as health care becomes more consumer-led? Does access to medical ... social media has been used to aggressively blame and shame health care services in a way that is leading to the societal ...