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Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ken Seethram, MD, FRCSC, FACOG May 2012
... and arthritis.  After consulting with PSP staff at Fraser Health about how to structure the group visit process, the ... appointments for all patients in the group.  Fraser Health gathered feedback from all patients who attended the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Ronette Haboosheh, MSc, RAUD, RHIP, May 2012
... with another 3000 or so new claims added each year. Annual health care costs associated with these claims are more than ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC June 2012
Opioid overdose is a public health issue in British Columbia. In 2009, more than 200 ... Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge the health authorities, community partners, and other ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2012
... permanent and in some cases can be undone. For example, Health Canada buo­yantly assures Canadians that it protects health through good science. Yet, political initiatives in ... lowering of evidentiary standards to be applied to various health products, particularly herbal medicines.  As Joseph ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB June 2012
... economic laws of supply and demand play little part in our health system. Political interference in the process is to ... resonated with him. Physicians deal with the long-term health outcomes of their patients and, if they enter the ... to downsize the bureaucracy, especially as it applies to health.  Our 14 Canadian ministries of health (each with ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2012
I was recently asked to give a talk on physician health with a focus on exercise, which got me thinking about ... re­search shows that inactivity is a much bigger health risk factor than obesity.  He has shown that ... mortality. In summary, the “fit fat” have lower health risks than the “sedentary skinny.” Considering the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, June 2012
The concept of health care integration is often discussed, but many ... to implement it. In the Fraser region, the Fraser Health Authority (FHA) has partnered with local divisions of family practice to integrate its home health services with the primary care delivered by family ...
Letters / BY: L. Eustace, MD, June 2012
... decision to cut all funding to the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO). As of 30 June, this nonprofit ... than 12 years to promote First Nations, Inuit, and Metis health in Canada will close its doors forever.  As many of ... open-access journal called the Journal of Aboriginal Health that is an invaluable resource to both clinicians and ...
Letters / BY: Marc Kazimirski, JD, June 2012
... doctor cannot access in a timely way through the public health care system. And when advocating for my clients we ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD June 2012
... In the BCMJ April issue I was glad to see the Council on Health Promotion encourage physicians to focus on health rather than weight [Shifting the focus to health, not weight: First, do no harm,  BCMJ  [ 2012;54:144 ...