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President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD January/February 2009
... physicians, and expanding scope of practice to other health care workers such as nurse practitioners and midwives. ... accessibility, to maintaining a fiscally sustainable health care system, and to providing high-quality patient ... to adopt new effective strategies that at once improve the health of our citizens, improve health delivery, and protect ...
Obituaries / BY: Barry Turchen, MD January/February 2009
... chairperson of the pathology group for the Fraser Valley Health Authority for many years and president of the Dr Cam ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS January/February 2009
... for the Preferred or Elite class, you must be in very good health and lead a low-risk lifestyle, and your term life ...
News / BY: David M. Lawson, PhD, RPsych January/February 2009
... attention to the need for greater awareness of brain health and what the reader can do to improve and maintain it. ... since 2000 and is directed to the general public, although health care providers are also likely to learn from it. I ... his program that focuses on eight pillars of brain health provides the reader with explicit directions on living ...
News January/February 2009
BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre has been designated a World Health Organization and UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital. ... Research has shown that breastfeeding provides significant health benefits for both babies and their mothers. Newborns ...
MDs To Be / BY: Peter J. Nicholson, January/February 2009
... certainly the public, out of concern for their personal health and safety, would agree that medical studies should be ... within the profession as a whole. Changes in primary health care delivery could be more easily implemented if a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP January/February 2009
... us to become more physically active for the resulting health benefits? Is there evidence that hosting the Olympics will lead to increased health benefits for all? Premier Gordon Campbell has stated ... to help improve physical activity levels and thereby the health of British Columbians? Much is happening already that ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM January/February 2009
... references below. Additional materials will be provided to health care provi­ders in BC as this product is introduced. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... Society of Cardiology, consultant to the World Health Organ­ization and the UN Food and Agri­culture ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carl Whiteside, MD, March 2009
... with the UBC Faculty of Medicine, the Ministry of Health Services of British Columbia, and the British Columbia ... British Columbia Medical Association and the Ministry of Health Services. The goal of the committee is to enhance the ...