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President's Comment / BY: Ramneek Dosanjh, MD October 2022
... Dosanjh Climate change has been called the greatest global health threat of the 21st century. In the past year alone we ... fires, and poor air quality had on our communities, our health, and our well-being. But what will it take for us to ... change and the magnitude of the related impacts on human health. Then we must increase our awareness about how we are ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC October 2022
... (PCR) is key for both clinical management and public health control measures in British Columbia. This article ... Monkeypox PCR testing is offered at the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory and select other regional laboratories. ... 24 hours once specimens are received at the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory. While test results are pending, patients ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP October 2022
One of the major health challenges in an aging population is mobility ... impairment, along with the resulting cascade of negative health outcomes, including disability, loss of independence, ... 2 ] Recognition of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity by health care providers has important implications for ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Cindy Lau, MA October 2022
... and return to work is assessing the breadth of medical and health technology information available. Within the greater ... critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine to evaluate health technologies, clinical treatments, assessments, ... worker support and strengthening awareness of occupational health and safety issues, our reports are made accessible to ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong October 2022
... This myth has become so pervasive that even some health care professionals have reported delaying vaccination. ... which contributed to many young nurses and other health care workers in BC remaining unvaccinated.[ 9 ] ... 20 ] These concerns highlight the need for reproductive health outcomes to be included in postvaccine surveillance. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Ertel, MD November 2022
... years: 2016–2019. Following approval by the Interior Health Research Ethics Board to proceed as a quality ... that presented to another hospital within the Interior Health Authority were captured because there is a common electronic health record system for the whole region. In comparing ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: O. Maheshwari, MD November 2022
Background Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health conditions were the leading cause of disability in ... 1 ] with one in five Canadians experiencing a mental health condition each year, and one in two Canadians affected ... In British Columbia one in four people experience a mental health condition each year.[ 3 ] Family physicians were ...
Obituaries / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD November 2022
... with Overseas Missionary Fellowship as a consultant in health in the Philippines. Don’s lifelong interest in ... short course, which was eventually adopted by the World Health Organization in 1994 and subsequently expanded around ... the globe. The strategy was later applied to other lung-health problems including asthma, COPD, pneumonia, and ...
Obituaries / BY: Peter Kokan, MD November 2022
... Vancouver, and then Nelson, where he was the public health officer. He moved back to Vancouver by 1968, completed ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2022
... motivational psychology. While I fully endorsed the mental health benefits of flow experiences, mine seemed to take a ...