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Clinical Articles / BY: Derin Karacabeyli, MD July/August 2020
... to increase in Canada and worldwide, posing a major public health challenge.[ 1 , 2 ] Childhood obesity is complex, with ... across multiple sectors (e.g., schools, media, businesses, health services, community/recreation centres, local ... monitoring children’s weight trajectories and addressing health behaviors/habits given the long-standing relationship ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc July/August 2020
... to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Research shows that health care professionals working on the frontlines of the pandemic have reported symptoms of mental health conditions.[ 1 ] Treating COVID-19 patients comes with ... but research about the impact of these demands on our health care professionals’ physical, mental, and emotional ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD July/August 2020
... affected but who have chosen to use their time to help health care workers with groceries and child care. I’ve ... restaurants providing and delivering free meals to thank health care workers. There are, of course, the health care workers who are going above and beyond to spread ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD July/August 2020
... unprecedented. Who could have predicted how nimble our health care system needed to become to address the SARS-CoV-2 ... doctors and assisting them in raising concerns with the health care system at large, established the trusted channels ... relationship-based primary care. Our doctors and their health care administrator counterparts were already working ...
News July/August 2020
... Centre, and Dr Omar Ahmad, a physician with Island Health, head of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, and a ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
The Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, along with the VGH and UBC ... research projects aimed at addressing the evolving health care needs and challenges related to the COVID-19 ... Medicine and scientific director of the Legacy for Airway Health. Dr Daniel Kim, emergency physician at VGH and ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
... private lab across the province with a referral from their health care provider. For patients who had picked up their ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
... to continue with immunization services through their local health unit. News COVID-19 Childhood immunizations drop ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
... services allowed hospitals to redeploy and train essential health care workers in the likelihood of a potential surge in ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
... Dr William Parker and is supported by the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre. Additional ... for the project is being provided by the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. The team will continue to improve ... released under an open source licence, to be shared with health care facilities worldwide to help early diagnosis of ...