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Obituaries / BY: Urve Kuusk, MD, FRCSC, FACS November 2017
... career, including the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Health Sciences and Technology in 1986, and in the same year ... her final retirement. Her last years were troubled by health issues, but these did not dampen her humor and ...
Obituaries / BY: Carol Stewart Walker November 2017
... Ontario, and then was transferred to Ottawa to work at the Health Department. While in the nation’s capital, Ron and ...
Obituaries / BY: Laura Lim November 2017
... 50 years in practice, he suffered a difficult year of poor health before slipping away peacefully in his sleep at his ...
Premise / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd November 2017
... We have to do it ourselves.” The motto “There is no health without mental health” is also relevant at Super 30. Going to the movies ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD November 2017
... era of dwindling resources and inadequate capacity in the health care system, networks of care will be our opportunity ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Vanessa Perrodou, RD December 2017
... for evidence-informed nutrition information to support health care practitioners in communicating nutrition ... Nutrition Guidelines (Six Months to Six Years): For Health Professionals[ 1 ] provide a framework for physicians ... and other chronic diseases. Highlights The Provincial Health Services Authority and the BC Ministry of Health and ...
Editorials / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP December 2017
... technology can be used to improve access to and quality of health care. The history and future of the electronic medical ... • Why should physicians participate in this digital health transformation—and can we afford not to?  • What are the advantages of digital health for patients, health professionals, and health ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD December 2017
... projects funded by the initiative. Data from divisions and health authorities show that these projects are already making a significant impact on health outcomes and access to care. Achieving system-level ... in Nelson that is now five times lower than the Interior Health regional average. Doctors from the Fraser Northwest ...
Letters / BY: Rajesh Nair, MD December 2017
... Nair, MD Clinical Research Fellow, Vancouver Island Health Authority Victoria Letters Outcome instruments in hip ...
Letters / BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP December 2017
... with colleagues and continued to interact with the mental health system as a practising GP with special interest. I ...