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News / BY: Kerri Farrell May 2021
... policies or to add new dependents or office staff to your health and dental plan. We look forward to seeing you again ...
News May 2021
... consultations with rural physicians, communities, and health authorities as part of a review of the program. This ... addition, medical and administrative leaders in each rural health authority, community groups, subject matter experts, ... physicians’ RRP flat fee payment disbursed through the health authority on behalf of the JSC. The minimum point ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2021
... promises of low sugar content, and a variety of alleged health benefits. Kombucha appeared as early as 2000 years ago ... process. These probiotic microbes are alleged to convey health benefits ranging from antioxidant effects and ... after production has raised concern among Canadian and US health agencies, the BC Centre for Disease Control among ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2021
... government. The JCCs bring together doctors, government, health authorities, patients and families, health professions, and other stakeholders to improve access ... in divisions of family practice are working with health authority and community partners to establish primary ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC May 2021
... In cases where opioid overdose is suspected, lay and health care responders should give naloxone to patients with ... UBC Additional resources from the BCCDC Summary sheet for health professionals. Benzodiazepines found in opioids in BC. ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Janice Mason, MD, BSc, Dipl Sport Med (CASEM), May 2021
... sports or occupational medicine, have training in mental health, and maintain clinical practices. They regularly ... it contributes to recovery, and it leads to better health outcomes.[ 1 ] Yet not all injured workers reap the health benefits of work. Some recover at home for extended ...
Premise / BY: Christopher O.Y. Li, BSc May 2021
... endured appalling racist and insulting comments from health care professionals as she was dying in a Quebec ... continue to face discrimination and bias. The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, ...
MDs To Be / BY: Raiya Suleman, BHSc May 2021
... requires considerable thought and action from the Canadian health care and political systems. A growing challenge among ... connections and their ties to mental and physical health, limited initiatives exist that target social ... loneliness among older adults is shown to have negative health consequences. For example, loneliness is correlated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lise Leveille, MD, MHSc June 2021
... room time. Patient factors, injury mechanism, and model of health care delivery can all contribute to the timing of ... and the consequences of this delay in a publicly funded health care system are poorly understood. The aim of this ... access to care for ACL injuries in a publicly funded health care system. Identifying and clearly defining risk ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2021
... delayed or canceled procedures.[ 3 ] Whether in public health care systems, where surgical access was previously ... exacerbated by the pandemic, or in mixed public–private health care models like those in the United States, where ... a hospital-wide COVID-19 outbreak. Direction from public health, specifically in Canadian centres, has not included ...