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News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS May 2008
... in the US and around the world, and are in need of travel health insurance. To answer this need, BCMA has arranged to ... and more. Availability of optimum, preferred, and standard health options and rates provide coverage for those with ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD May 2008
... programs, in-patient programs, safe housing, and access to health care—together with the high incidence of concurrent ... of reducing the user’s impact on public order and public health until durable solutions are reached.”  As frontline health care workers, we feel the need to raise concerns and ...
Letters / BY: A.S. French, May 2008
The Canadian Forces Health Services museum in Vancouver now has its own web ...
Letters / BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... BCMA president, has concluded that the Conversation on Health failed to provide any consensus (“Consensus? There is no consensus,”  BCMJ, 2008;50(1):10 , Health Minister George Abbott suggests otherwise. In his ... to elicit opinions from British Columbians about their health care system.  The first is that the citizens want ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, May 2008
... for BC (MC4BC), developed by the joint BCMA/Ministry of Health General Practice Services Committee (GPSC), also ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2008
... widely acknowledged to be one of the most cost-effective health care measures available.[ 1 ] Even in countries with no organized health care system to speak of, vaccination campaigns are ... coverage rates in those nations are enviably high. Public health programs in BC do a creditable job of ensuring that ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... of the underlying social and economic determinants of health. —Victoria J. Cook, MD —R. Kevin Elwood, MD ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... was admitted to the unit the night before under a mental health certificate, and I was asked specifically by the ... the police and was subsequently certified under the Mental Health Act of Bri­tish Columbia as to be suffering from a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
... the family physician provides an entry point into the health care system and a link to secondary care.[ 1 ] As the ... is in a unique and strategic position to deliver effective health care messages and influence the patient’s care ... lifetimes.[ 2 ]  Cancer control includes a spectrum of health-related activities such as prevention, screening, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara Poole Lane, MPA May 2008
... Modeling Network of the National Institute of Health attempted to define the respective contributions of ... Columbia have expressed deep concern about how the breast health system is organized.[ 3 ] According to a Canadian ... will grow to 3619 by 2017, an increase of 27%.[ 8 ] Breast health care guidelines The BC Cancer Agency develops cancer ...