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Letters / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2024
... requiring action across a continuum including mental health, trauma prevention, addiction treatment, and harm ... examine the population at risk. For example, using linked health data sources, a team of BC researchers identified a ... criteria for a substance use disorder in administrative health data are also at risk: people fitting this description ...
Obituaries / BY: Susan Endersby March 2024
... England, she completed several diplomas relating to child health. Eager to become a pediatrician, Judith immigrated to ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... The article caused me to reflect on how fragile our health care system is in many places, when critical ... The results indicated that Canadians’ top priority for health care funding (36%) was to reduce surgical wait times. ... reported on the politics currently at play on the topic of health care spending, noting that current proposals do not ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2024
... so much beauty. Can you see it? Perhaps for you it is the health or vitality of your body, or the creative capacity of ... into this place of gratitude.”[ 3 ] I am grateful for my health and for the people I love and those who love me. I am ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... are reminded daily that no one of us can change the entire health care system. Yet I find inspiration at work daily. I ... help our patients find their way through a challenging health care system better, together. This commitment will ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD March 2024
... and treatment, viral hepatitis remains a persistent public health issue in Canada[ 3 ] as well as globally.[ 4 ] As a ... in alignment with global efforts spearheaded by the World Health Organization,[ 6 ] aims to eliminate both hepatitis viruses as a public health threat by 2030. To support this goal, the Public ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2024
... complexity of care that patients require—for mental health disorders, multisystem diseases, and ... This accounts for less than 0.1% of such claims from health care and social services workers during that time ... and safe workplace All BC employers must ensure the health and safety of their workers and any other workers at ...
Proust for Physicians March 2024
... They are intellectually curious, are engaged in their own health care, and genuinely want to know how and why ... in my sleep if I live to an old age in relatively good health. Otherwise, via MAID if I am facing a long terminal health spiral. Proust for Physicians Dr Don Wilson ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Eiko Waida, MD, FRCPC, FAAP* March 2024
In 2018, the senior executive team of the Interior Health Authority (IHA) supported the Physician Quality ... better outcomes, and reducing the per capita cost of health care. The dyadic partnership is not a new concept in health care, and there has been a resurgence in implementing ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Frank X. Scheuermeyer, MD, MHSc April 2024
... Network, which was governed and funded by the BC Academic Health Science Network) is now a Health Improvement Network in the Provincial Health Services Authority with the goal of improving ...