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Editorials / BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN June 2000
Imagine a health-care system that goes beyond primary care, beyond ... acute care, beyond differentiated care services. Imagine a health-care system in which there is appropriate use of health professionals with a local network of health-care ...
Editorials / BY: David Doty, MD June 2000
... public, and continued to promise free, all-encompassing health care while borrowing astronomical amounts to provide it. Thus was born the Cadillac health-care system on the Chevrolet income, using borrowed ... sustain such costs any more, started cutting funding for health care. However, they were very careful to do this ...
Editorials / BY: Bill Cavers, MD June 2000
... bulge is now reaching into their 50s, and from this age on health-care expenditures almost double for every 10 years of ... effect of this exponential increase in per-capita health-care expense, plus the increase in the total number of older people will dramatically impact total health-care costs. Major research facilities have predicted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert T. Morrison, MD, FRCPC July/August 2000
... by measurements of bone mineral density (BMD) using World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. They sought to determine ... at another ethnic group of patients using a different health-care system and in a clinical practice setting to see ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... Simon Fraser, Vancouver, Burnaby, North Shore, Richmond Health regions) and southern Vancouver Island (Capital Health region) were also omitted because we were mainly ... between 20000 and 30000. Second, we obtained NIA community health-care data from British Columbia Medical Services Plan ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J. Sedergreen, MBBS September 2000
... therapists in BC is determined by the provincial 1995 Health Professions’ Act. The legislation defines and ... on a patient) are the subject of continuing study by the Health Professions’ Council, a body constituted by and reporting to the Minister of Health, which may determine that certain procedures are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Shayesta Dhalla, MD September 2000
... patients with MEN-1 admitted to the National Institutes of Health showed that 99% of patients had parathyroid tumors.[ 6 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Saw, MD, FRCPC October 2000
... of cardiomyopathies were revised in 1995 by the World Health Organization/International Society and Federation of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Steve Adilman, MD November 2000
Introductio n The Vancouver Native Health Society (VNHS) Medical Clinic was established in 1991 ... Nations people. It is a non-profit, provincially funded health centre located in the most impoverished community in ... are the result of the decay of all the determinants of health. The main factors include poverty, social isolation, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2000
... centre. The communities studied were from British Columbia Health Regions located outside the Lower Mainland and ... Cariboo, North West, Peace Liard, and Northern Interior health regions.[ 13-15 ] Communities lacking a hospital or ... This is because Aboriginal people, per capita, have more health problems—both physical and psychosocial—than ...