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Clinical Articles / BY: Russell Callaghan, PhD, September 2007
... use among adolescents has become an apparent public health concern. Most of the available data on methamphetamine ... Centre’s 1998 and 2003 British Columbia adolescent health surveys, which questioned approximately 25 000 to ... or with a referral from their legal guardian, physician, health service worker, school official, or a mental health or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mario McKenna, MSc, September 2007
... has depended on IMG physicians to aid in the delivery of health care throughout the country. A scarcity of physicians ... established that IMG physicians form an integral part of health care delivery within Canada, there is limited ... ranks occupied by IMG psychiatrists. Using the World Health Organization world directory of medical schools as a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... Medical Service Dr Larry Collins BCMA Excellence in Health Promotion INDIVIDUAL: Wendy CreelmanProject Leader, In ... Motion NON-PROFIT: BC Ministry of Environment Air Quality Health Index CORPORATE: Telus Tour for the Cure  CMA ... • BCMA’s share for the newly established Physician Health Program of BC ($365 859). Bottom line In 2006, the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John A. Dufton, DC, MD, October 2007
... 2 diabetes improved glycemic control.[ 10 ] US data on health care utilization and expenditures indicate that ... of these conditions represent substantial costs to the health care system.3 Several studies have attempted to quantify the increase in health care costs in diabetic patients with comorbid ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nadejda Droubatchevskaia, MD, October 2007
... Research and Quality (formerly the US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research)[ 1 ] (see  Appendix A ). ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC October 2007
... may have considerable side effects. The BCMA/Ministry of Health Guidelines are being revised based on new Canadian ...
Case Report / BY: Tony Wilson, MD, October 2007
... whose mission is to run a yearly clinic delivering free health care to poor Tibetan nomads in Yushu (Yushu Autonomous ... transfers. Medical care is costly in Tibet and there is no health insurance scheme; to purchase the basics for care the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD October 2007
Progress toward creating a Bill of Health Care Rights for British Columbian children and youth. ... first provincial medical association to develop a Bill of Health Care Rights for Children and Youth. The Child and Youth Health Committee first introduced the concept to the Council ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD October 2007
... like I was going to have the “big one” or some other health-related catastrophe if I didn’t start looking after ... on Saltspring Island. You start to preach good spiritual health in addition to good physical health, endorse the Green Party, and start to grow a ponytail ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Granger Avery, MD October 2007
... committee of five members appointed by the Ministry of Health and five by the BCMA, and it has a mandate to advise ...