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News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2013
... travel insurance. BCMA members covered under the extended health benefit of the Standard or Core-Plus Plans are covered ... insurance and are not required to complete an annual health questionnaire. For members who do not participate in ... plan. The MEDOC plan requires annual completion of a Health Option Questionnaire.  The MEDOC plan is open to all ...
News July/August 2013
The Canadian Institute for Health Information and Statistics Canada are moving to an ... electronic, interactive reporting format for their annual Health Indicators report. The new format, which will debut in ... feature more frequent reporting of over 40 indicators of health system performance for the provinces, territories, and ...
News July/August 2013
... University of British Columbia and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. To view the full list of Attendance ...
News July/August 2013
... flights to transport low-income families to specialized health care services available only in urban centres. For ... individuals in British Columbia who must travel to access health care.  To learn more about Hope Air visit ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2013
... of the various reporting committees and elected officers. Health effects of noise   Dr John O’Brien-Bell requested ... the issue. The matter had been forwarded to the Council on Health Promotion, so Dr Bill Mackie answered that they had ... the latest flu season the BCMA supported the provincial health officer’s recommendation that if health care workers ...
Obituaries / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD July/August 2013
... Betty and Leah, left an indelible imprint on First Nations health care and education.  Al lived his life in afterburner ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) July/August 2013
... kept me healthy but also gave me a window into the broader health care system and what my role in it could be.  During ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2013
... disease registries The US National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics describes disease registries as “an ... factor) that predisposes [them] to the occurrence of a health-related event, or prior exposure to substances (or circumstances) known or suspected to cause adverse health effects.”[ 21 ]  Disease registries are a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Elizabeth Bryce, MD, FRCPC, September 2013
... of hand cleaning in the prevention of infections in health care was recognized.  Prior to 2010, BC health authorities had developed a wide variety of hand ... Auditing of hand-cleaning compliance. •    Surveying health care workers to capture perceptions of hand hygiene ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2013
BC’s new health minister, the Honourable Terry Lake, has indicated the importance of health promotion and disease prevention strategies to improve patient health and reduce costs to the health care system. As ...