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Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Vivek Gill, BHSc November 2024
... and heartbreaking.[ 6 ] Stillbirth is a significant public health concern that can have profound and lasting impacts on ... may also experience significant grief and increased mental health concerns.[ 7 , 10 , 18 , 19 ] Stigma affects the ... As a provincial referral center, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre has the highest volume of stillbirths in BC. Of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jia Hu, MD, MSc, CCFP, FRCPC November 2024
Housing is an important social determinant of health and well-being. Unfortunately, many Canadians, ... through which housing can impact physical and mental health, including housing affordability, residential ... income on housing, the highest of any province.[ 3 ] The health impacts of housing affordability are generally ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Charuka Maheswaran, MBBS, DTM&H, DRCOG, DFFP, PMETB, CELTA, LMCC, CCFP, MPH November 2024
... According to the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, many occupations particularly at risk of ... industries, and in emergency response.[ 1 ] Discussing the health risks of cold stress with at-risk patients and ... guidance may help prevent cold-exposure injuries. Health risks of cold stress and overview of management Cold ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD November 2024
... women were disproportionately impacted by poorer health than their male counterparts and that the health gap between Indigenous women and non-Indigenous women ... There are 231 calls for justice, and 16 of them pertain to health. They include the need for wraparound trauma-informed ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC November 2024
Dr Ahmer A. Karimuddin Health care in British Columbia and across Canada has been ... patients, and with those who have responsibility for the health care system. Especially if we are willing to do the ... and togetherness, that is the future we will build for our health care system. When our patients come to us in distress, ...
Letters / BY: Ella Barrett-Chan November 2024
... plans, and encouraging open communication in challenging health care situations. Since then, the club has grown to ... care tips and approaches to share with other learning health care professionals. We hope to continue creating ... to help shape how medical students and other health care professionals practise family-centred care. ...
Letters / BY: Liz Ewart, MD, FCFP November 2024
... Community Oncology Network site administered by our local health authority rather than by BC Cancer. We therefore lack ... colleagues put into their article and hope it will engage health authorities and BC Cancer to improve the breast cancer ...
Letters / BY: J.J. Simice, MD November 2024
... in Comox back in 1979, patients had better access to health care than they do now. Yes, medications, technology, ... in Quebec from this nonsensical system. Our present health care system is in a straitjacket of left-wing politics ... the BCMJ , I see nothing in it on the topic of the present health care crisis. —J.J. Simice, MD, FRCPC Comox Letters ...
Obituaries / BY: Sumitra Robertson, BA November 2024
... Chuni Roy, to engage physicians in improving South Asian health outcomes. In Bengal, he founded a school for at-risk ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Amy Booth, MPH December 2024
... rural and remote geography; lack of access to a regular health care provider; being too busy; experiencing ... and child care challenges; past trauma; and a colonial health system with prevalent anti-Indigenous racism.[ 5-12 ] ... and an equity-based lens,[ 2 ] in alignment with the World Health Organization’s global strategy for cervical cancer ...