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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael Joseph Lee, PhD June 2025
... perform many ecosystem services.[ 2 ] The concept of One Health is the understanding that the health of animals, the environment, and humans are interdependent. Cyanobacteria can become a One Health challenge when they negatively impact the health of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2025
... then initiated in more communities and to collect better health and safety data. However, people are using e-scooters ... improper lithium battery recharging.[ 8 ] From a public health perspective, a safe systems approach is critical to ... better estimate injury rates.[ 10 ] Balancing the physical health and environmental benefits of e-micromobility use ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD June 2025
... there are many programs and services across the health care, education, and social sectors designed to help ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2025
... to their patients and the toll the job takes on their own health. The fulfillment that comes from helping others is ... must evolve to support the people within it. Ultimately, a health care system that values patient care and nurtures the ...
President's Comment / BY: Charlene Lui, MD June 2025
... is a time of transformation within British Columbia’s health care system. Although it is also a time of strain, ... more vital than ever. The past few years have tested our health care system in ways few could have imagined. From the ... well-being is a foundational part of a sustainable health care system. We cannot talk about improving patient ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, CCFP June 2025
... being cared for by other members of a robust primary health care team so that patient panels can grow. —Rick ...
Letters / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD June 2025
... of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (CPSBC) under the 2022 Health Professions and Occupations Act, we might want to ... Ten years ago, the CPSBC stopped supporting the Physician Health Program. In 2022, the CPSBC surveyed its registrants ...
Letters / BY: Rita K. McCracken, MD, PhD, CCFP (COE), FCFP June 2025
... comparisons can be informative, BC’s public health landscape is notably different. Overdose deaths in BC ... local prescribing data within this broader public health reality is essential to avoid misdirected policy ...
Letters / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD June 2025
... long-term opioid use from the Canadian Institute for Health Information in the introduction to provide readers ... more detailed report from 2021.[ 7 ] We used the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics ...
Original Research / BY: Tandi Wilkinson, MD, CCFP-EM, FCFP July/August 2025
... This important tool is especially valuable in rural health care settings, which often lack immediate access to ... condition.[ 4,6 ] A recent survey on POCUS use among rural health care providers in British Columbia revealed that 43% ... and appreciation of potato ethics , a “particular rural health care sensibility” described as “an ethics rooted ...