News
December 2021
... to pay privately or who work within the boundaries of health authority sites. Family doctors have access to the ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Michael R. Lyon, MD, ABOM
December 2021
... a 50% reduction in cardiovascular disease risk, lower health care costs, and better quality of life. Post-hoc ... requires significant commitment from both patients and health care providers, the benefits of increasing type 2 diabetes remission rates to patients, the health care system, and society as a whole are impossible to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
December 2021
... A/H1N1 influenza pandemic. In March and April 2020, BC health authorities observed that while immunization services ... seen declines in childhood immunization, and international health agencies have issued a call for efforts to ensure ... doses administered to those under 19 years to their local health unit so that the PIR record can be updated. —Monika ...
Joint Collaborative Committees /
BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC
December 2021
... Physicians partner with government and work closely with health authorities to make system change while strengthening ... at provincial, regional, and community levels. Physician health and wellness is paramount, and every day the JCCs work ... time and resources in a complex and, at times, constrained health care system that involves heavy workloads and clinical ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Tanya Fairweather, MD, CCFP, FCFP
December 2021
... in the general population,[ 1 ] and compensable mental health injuries in BC are common. In 2019 and 2020, 641 and ... through WorkSafeBC and are provided by contracted mental health care providers (psychologists, clinical counselors, ...
Proust for Physicians
December 2021
... you most like to practise? Places with limited access to health care, with marginalized populations. What do you most ...