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News May 2020
... conditions. The research is published in BMC Public Health and highlights the critical need to better understand ... all three conditions and how to prevent such a decline in health. The study, “The prevalence of cardiometabolic ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB May 2020
... public to panic. The unintended consequence is that many health care providers are currently in a state of panic. ... throughout the world, and annunciated by the World Health Organization—the keys to containing this disease are ... my obituary. If this pandemic can be likened to a war, and health care workers are the army, then it feels as if we are ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD May 2020
... we have been implementing stronger and stronger public health measures to slow the spread. And yet the numbers are ... orders of one of our own, Dr Bonnie Henry, our provincial health officer. I cannot imagine a calmer and more organized physician to lead our health care system and the public through this ...
Council on Health Promotion, COVID-19 / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2020
... 1 ] Reduction of infectious diseases is not the only health benefit that can be achieved with proper design of ... in the reduction of disease. —Lloyd Oppel, MD Council on Health Promotion COVID-19 Concrete versus COVID-19: How the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Drona Rasali, PhD, FACE May 2020
... manifests itself in manifold challenges in the present-day health management of patients. Multimorbidity has been one of the most complex phenomena in health care systems around the world in recent times. It affects all age groups, but a geriatric focus in health research is prominent owing to higher prevalence among ...
Premise / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD May 2020
... crucial to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Public health officials have instructed us to practise social ... the amygdala and proxemics. We are ordered by public health authorities to create distances between households, ... loneliness, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, or other health issues are likely to be vulnerable to even more ...
WorkSafeBC May 2020
... and Treatment (ECAT) program is a new WorkSafeBC-sponsored health care program designed to support injured workers in ...
Back Page / BY: Ed Martin, BA May 2020
... from a cross-section of society—doctors, other health care providers, academics, and members of the general ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee June 2020
To date (22 April 2020), there are no Health Canada–approved COVID-19 pharmacologic treatments, ... expanded to 37 members, with representation from all health authorities, the Ministry of Health Pharmaceutical Services Division (MOH PSD), and ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc June 2020
... organizations that was created to promote respiratory health worldwide, published a position statement in 2018 ... factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the immediate health effects of e-cigarette vaping have become apparent and ... to others. Some American states are even issuing specific health advisories on vaping and COVID-19.[ 3 ] The evolving ...