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Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC January/February 2011
... ). Prevention requires a concerted effort at all levels of health care to minimize spread and to provide a safe and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aaron Talsky, MD, January/February 2011
... residual neurological impairments. A National Institute of Health panel estimates that 2.5 to 6.5 million Americans ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2011
... of these developments, providers in the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) region are being encouraged to expand their ... and their clients; Aboriginal people; people with mental health disorders; people from HIV-endemic countries and their ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD January/February 2011
... Physicians of Canada, Dietitians of Canada, and Community Health Nurses Canada recommend the adoption of the World Health Organization growth charts in Canada to replace the ... training materials have been developed for public health staff and primary care physicians to support the ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2011
... questions, and accompanied with requests for all your health records. Lastly, they state that the cost of all this ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2011
... female professor of surgery A recent Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) document[ 1 ] misguidedly blam­ed ... fees as a major contributor to the rising costs of health care in Canada. In a previous editorial[ 2 ] I wrote ... policies enacted 20 years ago have produced a Canadian health system in which there is an extreme shortage of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, January/February 2011
... says Dr Gary Mazowita, a family doctor with Providence Health Care and family practice lead for the Shared Care ... and specialist physicians working together to improve health outcomes and the patient journey through the health care system. The committee was formed in 2006 as a ...
News January/February 2011
... student to pursue dual masters’ degrees in global health science and global governance and diplomacy at Oxford ... placements and exchanges. He is focusing on global health issues in low-income countries, encompassing perspectives that include public health, economics, political science, and history. Jaswal, ...
News January/February 2011
... Service of Canada to observe, listen, and share with local health care practitioners.  This is the second Canadian ... spend an average of 4 weeks working directly with lo­cal health care practitioners and pa­tients. The Canadian ...
News January/February 2011
Vancouver Coastal Health, Providence Health Care, and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence ... the STOP HIV/AIDS pilot project. Under the new guidelines, health care providers are encouraged to routinely offer an ...