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President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS April 2017
... You’ll also find that over half of Canadians feel our health care system needs fundamental change. I fully agree. ... It needs to include patients and the other necessary health care partners, and it urgently needs to be influenced ... as EMR adoption and in finding innovative solutions to our health care challenges in such areas as primary care and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Geoff C. Jarvie, MD, MHSc May 2017
... for musculoskeletal conditions constitutes a major health care expenditure. The most common reason for a patient to consult a health care provider is musculoskeletal pain or disability,[ ... implications for both the individual patient and the health care system. As wait times to see specialists ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2017
In January 2017 the BC Minister of Health announced the approval of publicly funded human ... are largely delivered in school-based clinics by public health nurses throughout the province, many studies have shown that a recommendation from a trusted health care provider, including a family doctor or ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Emily Peterson, MPH May 2017
... and sea level rise.[ 2 ] Climate change will impact human health in BC through various pathways including air- and ... outbreaks, indoor air–quality concerns, and mental health impacts.[ 3 , 5 ] More frequent drought conditions ... disadvantaged populations are more susceptible to the health impacts of events such as extreme heat and poor air ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB May 2017
... publications should not be allowed into evidence. The BC Health Minister was called as a witness, and they opposed his ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2017
... that it needs to be repealed and replaced by an equitable health care plan with lower premiums and expanded coverage. ... I discussed his lofty promise of instituting an affordable health care plan for all Americans. His Patient Protection ... it. Now, I don’t claim to be an expert on American health care policy, but I have Google so here goes. President ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou May 2017
... (a collaboration between North Peace Division and Northern Health, using funding from A GP for Me). The prenatal clinic ... care model that provides the services of a public health nurse to all pregnant patients, with positive results: ... those factors into account, the division and Northern Health used the prenatal clinic model to co-design team ...
Letters / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD May 2017
... term  patient medical home  have been broadly used by health care organizations in other countries and over the ...
News May 2017
... Drugs? program and is funded in BC by the BC Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Services Division.  For those who ...
News May 2017
... children. Intensive care teams can collaborate with health care providers in communities across the province to ... leaving their community.  Tele-PICU is part of Child Health BC’s Children’s Virtual Care initiative that ... Children’s Hospital. Tele-PICU was established by Child Health BC in partnership with the Island and Interior Health ...