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President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, July/August 2006
... relationship. We have a chance to work with them and the health authorities, and we can bring to that relationship all ... and hone them as we begin to work with government and health authorities. We need to change, and government needs ...
Obituaries / BY: Cliff Henderson, MD, July/August 2006
Dr David A. Clarke, longest-serving medical health officer of the South Okanagan Health Unit (SOHU)—1950 to 1984—passed away peacefully on ... General Hospital and was recruited as the medical health officer for the SOHU in the fall of 1950. In 1953 he ...
News / BY: Mark Bigham, MD July/August 2006
... 6.3% of the 239 cases of WNV infection reported to Health Canada last year. This proportion of WNV-positive ... WNV cases would otherwise be reported to public health. Seven positive donors were detected in Ontario, four ... a positive-donor test result or an incidence of public health-reported WNV in a health region over a 2-week period ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... constitute only one approach to restoring well-being and health. Our patients are undertaking a host of preventive ... CAM in droves; their choices are in fact changing the health system. They seek physicians who support a truly ...
Letters / BY: Michael Dettman, MD, July/August 2006
... have “monopolistic government control of the country’s health services” and that “Canada ranks 2nd in the per ... in rankings of brutality among regimes that have two-tier health care or private-only care (e.g., Saudi Arabia or ...
Letters / BY: Richard Loomer, MD, July/August 2006
... retention of medical personnel and addressing the unique health needs of people in the North. You comment that ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2006
... on panels, and given many interviews and talks relating to health care policy and the role of physicians. When it comes ... or lobbyist. When governments implemented the Canada Health Act, they set the stage for rationed care that is now ... of deficit financing. The diagnosis is an outdated Canada Health Act (CHA) that in recent years has stifled progress ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) July/August 2006
Patients are exposed to many sources of health information. While not all sources are of the same ... to bring the best available scientific evidence to bear on health concerns. Yet this process is not necessarily mirrored by other groups offering health advice. The use of complementary and alternative ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC July/August 2006
... history of travel on the requisition. Reporting to public health Physicians must report clinical cases consistent with ... fall) and lab-confirmed WNnon-NS to their local medical health officer. A more detailed investigation of cases will be undertaken by public health to increase understanding of the clinical picture and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2006
... with HBV (oral communication, Ameeta Singh, Provincial Health Office, Edmonton, Alberta). Infants born to mothers ... with continued HBV exposure vary between and within health authorities. In some health authorities, the requisition for serology is provided ...