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News November 2011
... University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have found a key link be­tween ... University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, in collaboration with researchers ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, November 2011
... to address the growing challenge of providing quality health care to an aging population.  According to a recent ... and now, increasingly, about co-managing their own health.  In this article we profile two patients and their ... is a 55-year-old Powell River woman with numerous chronic health issues. She has been a patient of Dr Bruce Hobson ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, November 2011
... citizens of British Columbia with the highest standard of health care while achieving maximum professional satisfaction ... relationship with the BC government, and the Ministry of Health in particular. He stood up for physicians, played ... have benefited not only physicians, but patients and the health care system as well.  Mark is well aware that an ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Peter Allen, MD, November 2011
... patients share? The ability to take part in their own health care.  Which words or phrases do you most overuse? ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2011
... and could be targets for interventions by public health bodies or individual physicians. Screening ... but their treatment represents a significant cost to the health system. Bladder and renal cancers Incidence and ... opportunity for physicians to tailor counseling and public health messages to male patients. Tobacco use One of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dan Bilsker, PhD, December 2011
... to other more highly publicized threats to men’s health, such as HIV/AIDS, that account for far fewer ... contri­butes to its lack of visibility as a major public health problem. When gender is addressed it is often treated ... concerns,[ 7 ] and the stigma associated with mental health problems in general, it is no surprise that suicide ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC December 2011
... other provider making the STI diagnosis, or through public health. inSPOT: A new resource for BC inSPOT ( www.inspot.org ... the BC Centre for Disease Control are working with public health partners elsewhere in Canada to answer some of these ... to other options such as notification through public health. inSPOT may also be helpful for STIs where partner ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS December 2011
... drugs in lactation, the US National Institutes of Health maintains a publicly available, peer-reviewed ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2011
... circumstances. One would think that stewards of the health care system would recognize such a situation and ... the utility of the above value-added offerings at Inspire­Health might wonder how patients attending such a program ... not—are more likely to come from the upper part of the health bell curve no matter what their disease. The fact that ...
Editorials / BY: S. Larry Goldenberg, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FCAHS December 2011
... issue, we considered the need for a compehensive men’s health program in BC, and the treatment of erectile ... we consider three other areas of importance in men’s health. Drs Bilsker and White review male suicide, a most ... considered in this theme issue are concerns of the Men’s Health Initiative of BC (MHIBC), a nonprofit umbrella ...