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Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Jarchow, MSW March 2004
... reports result in a child protection investigation. [4] In BC, child welfare definitions, reporting laws, and ... suspected cases of child maltreatment to authorities. In BC, the  Child, Family and Community Service Act  requires ... instances, referral to a larger and more comprehensive centre is advisable.” Role of SCAN units British Columbia ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: G. Butt, MHSc March 2004
... not been effectively addressed by our health care system. BC Hepatitis Services, a provincially funded program, was initiated at the BC Centre for Disease Control in January 2001 to coordinate a ...
Editorials / BY: Jean Hlady, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... As the executive director of a children’s advocacy centre in the United States has stated, “Knowledge and ... —Jean Hlady, MD Director, Child Protection Service Unit, BC’s Children’s Hospital Editorials Child maltreatment, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2004
... of Anahim Lake and Nimpo Lake. [10]  According to BC Vital Statistics, the average total population of LHA 49 ... who drive to Anahim Lake for a weekly doctors’ clinic. BC Vital Statistics routinely standardizes LHA data using the ... also like to thank Peter Schaub, cartographer for the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gina Ogilvie, MD, MSc, FCFP, DrPH May 2004
Although BC has been experiencing an outbreak of infectious syphilis ... a result of rising rates of unprotected anal intercourse, BC’s gay community is also experiencing rising rates of ... are supplied free of charge by STD/AIDS control at the BC Centre for Disease Control.  —G.S. Ogilvie, MD, CCFP ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD June 2004
... virus (WNV) has rapidly spread across North America to the BC border since first being recognized in 1999 in New York ... was detected in animals, birds, mosquitoes, or humans in BC up to early 2004, [4]  public health officials are ... If so, please report this to the CBS BC/Yukon Blood Centre at 1 888 332-5663 local 2207 or by fax at (604) ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... British Columbia. The risk that the virus will move into BC during 2004 remains high. There is also a risk that BC residents will become infected while traveling outside the ... Fyfe MD, FRCPCC —Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control West ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... without the expensive equipment available in an urban centre. As well, the urban physicians were able to see the ... kind of consultation. For example, in a number of small BC communities without resident psychiatrists, mental health ... victim could not be evacuated by air from a regional BC community recently because of fog, a neurosurgeon in an ...
Letters / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... aboriginal persons living on reserve in British Columbia (BC) is administered out of the BC Centre for Disease Control through Tuberculosis Services ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC September 2004
... interest of both patients and providers of health care in BC. VIRAP (rapid diagnosis of viral respiratory infections) ... the laboratories at Women’s and Children’s Health Centre (WCHC) and BCCDC, establishing the concept of ... Control, Women’s and Children’s Health Centre of BC —Judith Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC Director, BCCDC ...