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President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP November 2018
Dr Eric Cadesky We don’t have an aging health care system as much as we have an outdated collection ... ], I reviewed the challenges we face in improving health care. We need solutions that are innovative, fair, and ... that diversity is our best chance of achieving needed health care reform. Studies have shown that diverse teams are ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD November 2018
... fast. In a fact sheet on road safety,[ 4 ] the World Health Organization states the following: “An increase in ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Dixon November 2018
... of high-quality scientific evidence in occupational health and safety. Focusing on emerging issues and applied ... workplace parties and researchers. Recent topics include health-promotion programs for long-haul truck drivers, ... and doctoral students pursuing training in occupational health and safety and workers’ compensation research in BC. ...
News November 2018
... in advancing knowledge. Mr Zhau is a data scientist and health innovator committed to empowering patients and ... medication care plans for patients with complex health needs. Nationally, he advises on the CIHR Strategic Working Group on Health Research Training and served as VP Internal of the ...
News November 2018
... a simple screening tool ( Figure ) to evaluate if a health product that appears on the Internet is likely to be a ... Tool ( https://news.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-Health-Scams-Assessment-Tool.jpg ) assigns points based on ... analyzed advertisements targeting 112 different health concerns. They found that the most common deceptive ...
News November 2018
The BC Children’s Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre has launched a new website so families and health professionals can more easily find mental health and substance use information and resources to support ...
Editorials / BY: Ehud Ur, MBBS, FRCPC November 2018
... or obese.[ 1 ] DC estimates that the cost to the BC health care system of diabetes-related hospitalizations, ... doing about the present danger and anticipated tsunami of health care costs? The Diabetes Charter for Canada[ 7 ] has ... responsibilities for people living with diabetes, health care providers, and governments. The charter states ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... related to the management of diabetes and its sequelae. Health benefits of interventions as well as risks and side ... consists of representatives from the BC Ministry of Health and Doctors of BC. The committee advises the Medical ... Columbia “to provide physicians, pharmacists, allied health professionals and the public with up-to-date, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith G. Dawson, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2018
... at some point in life.[ 3 ] The social determinants of health play a major role in the development of chronic ... worldwide as the most significant social determinant of health.[ 3 , 4 ] Other social determinants affecting diabetes ... poor access to care, food insecurity, obesity, and lack of health education. Risk is compounded by lifestyle habits such ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
... on glycemic control, diabetes distress, and other health-related outcomes in South Asian Canadians and members ... and biology funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.[ 18-20 ] Our growing diabetes research group ... BCCH has strong community-based clinical and population health research programs. Clinical studies have investigated ...