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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joseph Noone, MD, LRCP&SI, FRCPC September 2001
Preventing and managing aggressive behavior in health care settings is an educational and training area that ... published a handbook called  Preventing Violence in Health Care: Five Steps to an Effective Program  in 2000. A key reference for all health care settings, it uses a five-step approach: Step ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG September 2001
... In the past few months, virtually everyone involved in health care delivery has been faced with dilemmas of one kind ... to by physicians, by nurses, and by members of the Health Sciences Association, with variable effect. It is ... can be seen to have some relevance to delivering health care. The fourth principle,  justice , is not only ...
Letters / BY: Michael Alms, MB September 2001
... in other countries.) On being admitted to a National Health Service hospital in Great Britain, the patient enters ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Diana Carter, MBBS October 2001
... concept for many medical practitioners. The World Health Organization defines menopause as the cessation of the ... increased psychiatric morbidity or more utilization of health services by women. [ 4-7]  Women who used health services extensively before age 45 continue to do so ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darlene M.S. Hammell, MD October 2001
... on the large body of observational data from the Nurses’ Health Study, which demonstrated that both estrogen therapy ... a healthier cohort, or possibly more careful about their health management. In August 1998 this belief in an overall ... progestin most used by the participants in the Nurses’ Health Study, which gave us the initial beneficial results. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: R.C. Offer, MD, FRCPC, FACR October 2001
... of recent progress, but also an understanding of the health goals and concerns of each woman. Osteoporosis should ... of aging baby boomers indicate a looming major public health problem unless we can initiate effective measures to ... the therapies for osteoporosis currently approved by the Health Protection Branch are antiresorptive. This includes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP October 2001
... and in menopause information in order to make informed health decisions. [1] Physicians have the opportunity to play ... scrutiny by the Therapeutic Products Programme of Health Canada and have been issued drug identification ... reference book:  Herbs: Everyday Reference for Health Professionals  (see Resources, below). The two herbal ...
College Library / BY: Jim Henderson October 2001
... Club  is also the template for  Evidence-Based Mental Health , a quarterly started in 1998. Cumulated evidence Like ... licences give access only to College members in some health regions or with UBC affiliation, unless they have ...
Editorials / BY: Vera Frinton, MD October 2001
... 30s ask, “Am I into it yet?” What is  it ? The World Health Organization and the International Menopause Society ...
Clinical Articles / BY: B. Strauss, RN, BScN, MSc November 2001
... history was ascertained from physician and community health records. No association was found between measles ... exists between MMR vaccination and autism, is to compare health status after one- versus two-dose MMR immunization. ... Hockin, director, Field Epidemiology Training Program, Health Canada, for his review of this paper. Some published ...