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May 2011
The premise that aging is an important health care cost driver is tackled in the latest issue of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) Mythbusters ... The aging population is to blame for uncontrollable health care costs.” Seniors are known to cost the system ...
News&Notes
May 2011
... company. Dr Taunton was invited to speak at the Canadian Health Informatic Awards with GE as the winner of the Project ...
President's Comment /
BY: Ian Gillespie, MD
May 2011
... do so, knows how much anesthesiologists contribute to the health care team. Anything that limits the availability of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
June 2011
... surveillance forms, and cases reported on the public health information system) to estimate the annual number of ... diagnosed and treated than are reported to public health. Clinical picture Ticks are most likely to transmit ... to test for evidence of Lyme disease is used by the Public Health Laboratories of the BC Provincial Health Services ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Richard T. Lester, MD,
June 2011
Using wireless mobile communication technology to aid health services delivery (m-health) is a rapidly emerging concept around the world. Last ... with their cell phones.[ 2 ] Not to be confused with e-health (electronic management of health information and ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em)
May 2011
... Committee This article is the opinion of the Council on Health Promotion and has not been peer reviewed by the BCMJ Editorial Board. Council on Health Promotion From monkeys to medicine: Science education ...
Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
June 2011
... myself with gratitude for being an integral part of the health care team. Okay, maybe I will focus on the first one ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brendan Abbott,
June 2011
... pilot on Vancouver Island in 2009 with a focus on mental health and addiction. Physician and medical office assistant ... resources in the areas of cancer, cardiac, mental health and addiction, musculoskeletal, neurodegenerative, ... in delivering care and creating overall benefits to the health system. For physicians, using CHARD has proven to be ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Blair G. Fulton, MASc,
June 2011
... environmental issues with patients, to work with health care facilities to reduce or recycle waste, to make ... direct environmental and occupational threats to patient health, but is an active agent of change striving to reduce ... CanMEDS essential competencies, most notably to that of health advocate. Physicians are leaders and spokespersons ...
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June 2011
... aims to raise awareness and understanding of mental health and addiction and holds the National Mental Health and Addiction Awards each year to acknowledge and ... Programming An organization working in the areas of public health, human rights, and advocacy, VANDU was born out of the ...