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News March 2021
The inaugural issue of Collaborate on Health in BC is available online at https://bit.ly/3aFnZib . ... curates stories about how doctors have worked with health care partners to champion and innovate ways to deliver ... in 2020, all while navigating the challenges of a global health pandemic. Featured stories include: Patient care ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD March 2021
... We need to convince more people to follow public health directions, even as high-risk and vulnerable people ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM March 2021
... or loud noise at your workplace? Do you think your health problems are related to your work? Why? Do other ... which can include compensation for lost wages, coverage of health care costs, support with rehabilitation, or a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ronald A. Remick, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... been very effective, and similarly, we can advance the health benefits of regular physical activity. However, ... will add something extra for their physical and mental health. —Ronald A. Remick, MD, FRCPC Council on Health Promotion A walk in nature: The superfood of physical ...
Proust for Physicians March 2021
... for providing a glimpse of what it is like to be a public health officer during a global crisis. Which words or phrases ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
In June 2020, the BC Minister of Health commissioned an independent review to examine systemic Indigenous-specific racism in the provincial health care system after allegations were made of a guessing ... patients. The review examined this allegation and the health system more comprehensively in relation to the ...
Premise / BY: Hannah Lishman, PhD March 2021
... (the data were analyzed at the level of the local health authority), meaning individual differences related to ... team at the BCCDC and UBC School of Population and Public Health, with collaborators at BC Children’s Hospital, have ... only direct drug costs into account; savings to the wider health care economy were not considered. Once the association ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Laidlaw, MD, FRCPC April 2021
... often wish to leave hospital before doctors and other health care providers feel it is safe to discharge them. ... treatment. She now requires daily wound care from home health nursing staff and regular offloading to avoid a ... in hospital and treated for her medical illness under the Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sanya Ranchal, BSc April 2021
... make informed decisions and thus provide personalized health care. This review outlines the current practices, ... of ectopic pregnancy in women with a diagnosis of mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, adjustment ... are needed to understand the association between mental health and ectopic pregnancy before drawing definitive ...
Obituaries / BY: Nancy Kent, MD April 2021
... fellowship at BC Women’s Hospital and a Master of Health Sciences in Epidemiology at UBC, completing them in ... Training Initiative in Research in the Reproductive Health Sciences CIHR/Health Canada scholarship, among many others. Her first CIHR ...