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President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD December 2008
... comprehend the expression, “if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.” I am excitedly ...
News&Notes December 2008
... the BCMA. There are a great many articles about universal health care, a pressing issue at the time, with strong ... opinions both for and against this new concept in Canadian health care. Along with this come warnings about the dire straits of physicians and patients in the National Health Service of the UK. In the June issue there is an ...
News / BY: Terryn Naumann, BSc(Pharm), PharmD, December 2008
... England, the Netherlands, and the United States. Fraser Health is the first BC health authority to implement PAD services. Services will be available in the other health authorities in early 2009. PAD’s drug therapy topics ...
Letters / BY: Mark Strudwick, DC, December 2008
... U of T, for example) and work in collaboration with other health care professionals on a daily basis. I am from a ...
Index December 2008
... (cdc), Editorials (ed), correspondence (c), Council on Health Promotion (cohp), opinions (op), General Practice ... W: Out of control: Solving the child and youth mental health crisis (cohp) 6:298  Attridge S: Book review: The ... (c) 5:242  Barn P: Is living near power lines bad for our health? (cdc) 9:494  Barua M: Atypical antipsychotics, ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2008
... different names (the devil, the destroyer/Darth Vader of health care, the elephant in the room, Dr Profit, and some ... services in Canada are largely government funded and health care costs are ap­proaching 50% of provincial ... we must work to expand our leadership roles in health policy, planning, administration, and politics. A May ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2008
... called for an increased private sector role in delivering health care to Canadians. Specifically, he stated that ... end of medicare. These stakeholders warned of decline of health care by bringing up the themes of commercialization, ... were then paraded out. I don’t know which type of health care delivery system would best meet the needs of the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2008
... BCMA web site has more information for patients under the Health and Wellness section ( www.bcma.org/patient-advocacy/health-and-wellness ). As a public health measure, particularly for children, bike helmet use ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Fawziah Marra, PharmD December 2008
... to antimicrobial agents has become a major public health threat.[ 1 ] Few novel antibiotics have been developed ...
Index December 2008
... Disease Control (cdc), College Library (lib), Council on Health Promotion (cohp), In Memoriam (im), Insurance ... -A- ABORIGINAL HEALTH The burden of tuberculosis in Aboriginal communities ... other dual diagnosis: Developmental disability and mental health disorders* (Tang B, Byrne C, Friedlander R, et al.) ...