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President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD September 2025
... from a health care provider in the prior year. Indigenous people in Canada experience higher rates of chronic diseases, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Janene Erickson, Nak'azdli Whut'en, MPH, BKin September 2025
... dealt with. What are the truths that have happened to our people over the last 150 years?! Well, we don’t want to ... that BC is home to many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people from homelands elsewhere in Canada and having distinct ... and implement the health-care rights of Aboriginal people as identified in international law, constitutional ...
Letters / BY: Elsie Wang, BSc October 2025
... an intersectional equity lens, particularly for Indigenous people, individuals with disabilities, and those living in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Arianne Albert, PhD October 2025
... drug poisoning crisis (a leading cause of death among people 19–59 years of age)[ 6 ] and the extreme heat event ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP October 2025
... or low-risk BMI range may be higher and wider for elderly people (e.g., 22–29 kg/m 2 ) than for younger adults ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2025
... deserve mention: The BCMJ is, increasingly, a journal that people want to read. Sixty-two percent of respondents said ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC November 2025
... rates, without evidence of suicide displacement (i.e., people considering suicide do not choose alternative means of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: William Liu, BHSc November 2025
... ways. Similarly, rural communities, older adults, and people with disabilities may face distinct barriers in accessing AI tools. Including perspectives from people in these groups in AI model development ensures that ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Cecil Hershler, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2025
... by a physical disability. We invited some of the people I was seeing at my medical clinic to a pilot workshop ... Club of Vancouver. For one weekend, Ms Mortifee led 20 people, eight of whom had physical disabilities, and their ... In this workshop, I saw that music and song could help people express emotions of fear, grief, and even anger, but ...
MDs To Be / BY: Stephanie Quon, BASc November 2025
When I met Robert,* most of the people around him had already said their goodbyes. He had ...