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Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
Rabies—A public health emergency Any possible human exposure to rabies ... possible unless the carcass is clearly putrid. The local health unit or one of the Animal Health District Offices of the Canadian Food Inspection ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd June 2000
... Perhaps the medical mall will grow into a huge health centre. Within its walls would be fitness and ... sales and promotional offers, as each locale vies for the health-care dollars that may be directly or indirectly ... may adopt a practice of “office calls,” delivering health promotion, health monitoring, and diagnostic and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC June 2000
... and which in part derived from this success. The National Health Service in the United Kingdom was just being ushered ... in their report of 1991 which was widely endorsed by health care planners at the time? “There is a continuing ... agents serving the collective goals of a publicly funded health care system….”[ 1 ] That is to say, agents of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD June 2000
... obvious sources. In addition, organizations such as the Health on the Net Foundation ( www.hon.ch ) provide a set of ... for physicians to become an important source of online health information for patients, but physicians will need to ... comfortable with the Internet as a tool to supply quality health care. According to the Intel Health Initiative,[ 1 ] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T.F. Handley, MD June 2000
... control of the profession. We have seen the creation of a Health Professions Council, soon followed by a Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs that made recommendations to restructure the governance of the health professions, including medicine. It is no accident ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... would be a good start. The promise of equalizing access to health care for urban and rural populations will likely be ... the delivery of continuing medical education to rural health professionals in their own communities. This negates the need for rural health professionals to leave their communities in order to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martin Zelder, PhD June 2000
... in British Columbia is the future of government-funded health insurance, or medicare. Three scenarios are possible; ... is the redefinition of “accessibility” in the Canada Health Act to mean that a 25% coinsurance payment is assessed ... This is exactly the reform which was studied in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.[ 1 ]  The RAND researchers ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Wong, MD June 2000
... patient care and contributions to the hospitals and health-care system. All that combined with a health-care system in tremendous flux leaves residents caught ... drafts and currents. Hospital downsizing and shortages of health-care personnel mean that residents, the front-line ...
Editorials / BY: Ralph Klein, MLA, Premier of Alberta June 2000
... and risk-taking when it comes to management of the health system. Like all provinces, Alberta is proud of the Canadian health system and is working hard to ensure it serves people ... the previous one. However, we can’t let our pride in the health system blind us to the fact that the system needs ...
Editorials / BY: Mike Farnworth, MLA June 2000
As health minister, I am concerned about the challenges ... and to use every opportunity to help improve the health of British Columbians. The success of our efforts so ... BC government spends more than one-third of its budget on health care—and we know that costs will continue to ...