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Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Jarchow, MSW March 2004
... [3]  This suggests that child abuse may present to health care professionals more frequently than expected. ... overall medical assessment and treatment recommendations, health care practitioners may be asked to collect forensic ... Abuse and Neglect [5]  recognizes the important role health care professionals play in the identification of abuse ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: G. Butt, MHSc March 2004
... C (HCV) as identified through British Columbia’s Public Health Information System between 1992 and 2002. The majority ... This problem has not been effectively addressed by our health care system. BC Hepatitis Services, a provincially ... launched in partnership with the province’s six health authorities. Through coordination, partnership ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2004
... The application challenges the ability of the Canada Health Act to prevent Canadian citizens from obtaining private health care insurance that covers the cost of privately provided health care in this country. In 1996 Dr Jacques Chaoulli and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marie D. Hay, MD, DCH, DRCOG, FRCPC, MRCP(UK) April 2004
... There are significant risks to the physical and mental health of sexually exploited children, including depression, ... action teams. • Reconnect Youth Services. • Public health initiatives such as STD clinics, needle-exchange ... From a primary prevention perspective, it is critical for health care professionals to know what is going on in the sex ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC April 2004
... impact they generally have on the child’s future health and development. Injuries should be treated as needed. ... the physician should initiate involvement. In BC, health care providers are required by law to report any ... who have an established relationship with the family. Health care providers must be clear about their role within ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC April 2004
... in the pediatric population. Many authors and leading health care authorities have proposed a variety of guidelines ... members by referring general physicians and pediatricians. Health care providers must recognize that they have unique ... the main focus of any assessment must always remain the health and well-being of our patients, it is vital that we ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD April 2004
... of the haves has been threatening to abandon the Canada Health Act (CHA) altogether and go it alone. To my mind, Mr ...
Letters / BY: John R. McLeod, MD April 2004
... is the changes that have occurred across North America in health care. Back in the 1980s, things were different. We had ... program has thus grown out of continent-wide changes in health care. It has also come about because it is good, both ... the patients who get on-site care and for the financial health of the regions as patients move through the hospital ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2004
... in all of British Columbia ( Table 1 ). [6] Unfortunately, health data are not routinely collected or analyzed at the ... rural community level in Canada. According to the World Health Organization and other researchers, this lack of public health information at the community level is one reason a ...
Letters / BY: Arturo S. Manes, MD May 2004
... the scope of what we do in fulfilling the long-term health care needs of individuals. This trend away from family ...