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Letters / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2008
... was provided to the journal by the BCMA’s Environmental Health Committee—but we are glad that it spurred your ...
News January/February 2008
... Thomas Kerr Dr Thomas Kerr (Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research scholar, research scientist, BC Centre for ... was the national recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Knowledge Translation Award.  This award ... individual currently involved in a collaborative health research or development project that aims to advance ...
News / BY: Judith G. Hall, MD, January/February 2008
... school, and worked nationally to develop concepts of health centres and interdisciplinary care.  Rob Hill, a ... of the Department of Pediatrics, the opening of the Health Centre for Children at the Vancouver General Hospital, ... and rehabilitation medicine, his push for organization of health services and interdisciplinary care in Canada, his ...
News January/February 2008
... of the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, Dr McManus led the development and implementation of ...
News January/February 2008
... major, to pursue a master’s degree in global health science at Oxford University, starting October 2008. Ms Preston aims to improve public health policy affecting marginalized populations. At UBC she ... medication, studied drug use epidemiology and local public health policy, and she ran a leadership program at Camp ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, January/February 2008
The Conversation on Health was launched by Premier Gordon Campbell in September ... 78 meetings with virtually every group that has a stake in health care, including health care profes­sionals, patients, and the public, and ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Shelagh Locke, January/February 2008
... you need to know. Changes to WorkSafeBC’s Oc­cupational Health and Safety Regulation (OHSR) that came into effect on ... in response to the estimated 5000 needlestick injuries BC health care workers sustain each year. Any medical procedure ... Locke -Michael Sagar Industry Specialists, WorkSafeBC Health Care WorkSafeBC Hollow-bore needles and you ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pat G. Camp, MSc, PT, March 2008
... from Statistics Canada via the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS).[ 4 ] This self-report survey includes ... have chronic bronchitis or emphysema, as diagnosed by a health professional?” Based on data from the 2003 CCHS,[ 4 ... reserve members are routinely excluded from population health surveys or are not captured in administrative health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Al Talag, MD, March 2008
... the family practitioner, respir­ologist, and respiratory health care team, such as teaching effective in­haler ... participants in disease management. Education can reduce health care utilization by itself and by managing acute ... muscle strength.[ 25 , 29 - 33 , 35 ] • Improvement in health status: Pul­monary rehabilitation is associated with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Don D. Sin, MD, MPH, FRCPC, March 2008
... broncho­dilator to reduce exacerbation rates and improve health status. Pa­tients with severe or very severe disease ... by reducing the rate of exacerbations and improving health status.[ 12 ]  Monotherapy with tiotropium may be ... require the addition of inhaled corticosteroids to improve health outcomes. Patients with se­vere or very severe ...