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WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME March 2012
... systematic reviews (it’s posted at  www.worksafebc.com/health_care_providers/Assets/PDF/Hernia.pdf ). It showed that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD, April 2012
... (e.g., parity, older age at first birth), and personal health history (e.g., exposure to ionizing radiation, the use ... modifiable factors are unlikely to be the target of public health interventions (e.g., age at first birth). However, ... The clinic is located at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in Vancouver. The phone number is 604 822-9548 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Creighton, MSc, April 2012
... as the lack of evidence we have for benefits beyond bone health. Historically, vitamin D has been known as a key ... The recommendations were made solely on the basis of bone health. Vitamin D is critical to bone health largely because of its important role in enhancing ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC April 2012
... having diagnosed (221) and the number re­ported to public health (13), for 2007.[ 1 ]  We sent a follow-up survey to ... resources and education is needed for improved public health.  Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD April 2012
... concern that emphasizing weight loss as an indicator of health can negatively impact physical and mental well-being. ... Promoting body size acceptance and goals to improve health behaviors such as physiological measures (i.e., blood ... pressure, blood glucose, or cholesterol levels) and mental health status are more effective than a goal of weight ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2012
... to compensation that they forget what is important: their health and happiness. Often their lives are on hold during ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2012
The Mental Health module from the GPSC’s Practice Support Program ... to help them screen patients for a wide range of mental health conditions. The treatment approaches presented through ... in BC have limited training in the field of mental health care, yet family physicians are often the sole care ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) April 2012
... generate real benefits. —Lloyd Oppel, MD Chair, Allied Health Practices Committee Letters Dr Oppel responds ...
Letters / BY: Hal D. Gunn, MD, April 2012
... eight phy­sicians are on salary through the Ministry of Health. We engage cancer patients in their health through a patient-centred approach that supports ... programs and the importance of engaging patients in health, but he is not entitled to his own reality.  The ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
... voice insights in innovative ways about their state of health, or articulate what is needed for their healing and ... The project, a partnership between the Nak’azdli Health Centre and the UNBC Northern Medical Program, offered ... not only into examining the value of art creation on the health and well-being of Nak’azdli community members, but ...