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Clinical Articles / BY: Jana Patenaude, BSc, MSc October 2005
Background According to a report issued by Health Canada in 2002, 4.8% of Canadians, 20 years of age and ... diabetes mellitus. According to a report published by Health Canada, the prevalence rate of diabetes among the ... mellitus in this population. Methods The United Church Health Services operates a clinic and a hospital in Bella ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cynthia Fan, MD October 2005
... continues. [4,5] In October 2002, the BC Ministry of Health Services, through the Provincial Blood Coordinating ... in a privacy impact assessment by the BC Ministry of Health Services. No information identifying individual ... Wadsworth (Hematopathology, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia), Dr Brian Warriner ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS October 2005
... certainly an accurate reflection and indication of our health and activities and even our vices. Slowly, carefully, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Fred Bass, MD, DSc October 2005
... What we in the Society for Clinical Preventive Health Care (formerly the BC Doctors’ Stop-Smoking Program) ... this when front-line medical care is so overburdened? Some health care decision-makers recognize the value of proven ... should do so in ways that will enhance all of primary health care practice. This includes merging preventive ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG October 2005
... It used to be that when politicians intoned “no two-tier health care” I would assume that they were simply saying ... or my family, and you demonstrably affect my cardiac health. But underlying all this is the cynical understanding ... not be prepared to sit idly by if it was his or her own health, or the health of a loved one, that was subject to ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD October 2005
... reason, progresses in an opposite and much heralded health direction. However, for some very bothersome reason ...
News / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP October 2005
In August Dr James C. Hogg, a researcher at Providence Health Care’s iCAPTURE Centre, was appointed as an Officer ...
Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... one has to consider some basic facts. First, the present health delivery system in Canada is a scandal. That patients ... fierce advocate for their patients. Last, the demands for health care are finite, and the small group of very sick ... [6]  which was done by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. It found the high-cost users were “much ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD October 2005
... challenge will be different—a meeting with opposition health critic, Mr David Cubberley. Primarily the meeting is ... introduced, but I know we’ll discuss some key issues in health care and determine our common ground, as well as ... met with the Honourable George Abbott, our new minister of health. The meeting was open, friendly, and frank, and I ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP October 2005
Performance indicators help us promote health care that is accessible, service-driven, ... looking at the key performance indicators (KPIs) that our Health Care Services department collects, analyzes, and ... providers. The information they provide helps us promote health care that is accessible, service-driven, ...