News /
BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS
December 2005
... it to anyone concerned about the bigger picture in health care. It makes clear that leaving our fate to the ... and not necessarily a good thing for our patients’ health or our health care system. —David Blair, MD Victoria The ...
Letters /
BY: John Sehmer, MD
December 2005
... system available. —Don Graham, MD Director, Clinical and Health Care Services WorkSafeBC Letters Re: Measuring the ...
Letters /
BY: Donald J. Young, MD
December 2005
... BCMA’s support of a strong, effective, publicly funded health care system. This is indeed the BCMA’s position and ... The BCMA has always supported the inclusion of private health care providers in the delivery of publicly paid for ...
Letters /
BY: Ken Bassett, MD, PhD
December 2005
... clinical trial findings. —Ken Bassett, MD Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, UBC General Practice, ... UBC —Keith Chambers, MD Associate Clinical Professor Health Care and Epidemiology, UBC Clinical Epidemiologist, ...
Editorials /
BY: James A. Wilson, MD
December 2005
... and I feel deeply that if you want to and there are no health or other reasons why you shouldn’t, you should be ...
Editorials /
BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD
December 2005
... featured the release of a discussion paper from the Health Officer’s Council of British Columbia entitled A Public Health Approach to Drug Control in Canada . The paper called ... basis, surely comprehensiveness under the Canada Health Act would include such care. —HMO Editorials ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Linda Munro
December 2005
During 2004–2005 the Council on Health Promotion became a principle voice among the chorus of health associations and children’s organizations speaking ... the Council is making plans to tackle another public health issue in 2006, but its work on childhood obesity ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc
December 2005
The British Columbia Ministry of Health’s Pharmacare Division recently committed to 3 years ... Drugs? Program (DBND) was originally developed by Capital Health (Edmonton), the Alberta Medical Association, the ... Alberta in 1998–1999, then expanded to the Capital Health region in 2000. Currently the program is in use in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jerilynn C. Prior, MD, FRCPC
December 2005
... 20% of these women will make repeated visits to primary health care providers with urgent but perplexing problems. It ... 2001). In an effort to understand the concerns of primary health care providers, to provide patient-specific education ... (PEP) began as a pilot study in 2002 with 14 women and 9 health care providers from the Greater Victoria area. The ...