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News / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH June 2018
... coughing or sneezing. This disease poses a global public health threat.[ 1 ] In 2016, about 10 million people fell ill ... been able to obtain a 1-year access to rifapentine through Health Canada’s Exceptional Circumstances Access Program. ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Kotaska, MD May 2018
... waiting lists for procedures undersupplied by the public health care system. The approach is ethically sound and ... Dr Figurski seemingly defends and derides the Canada Health Act, yet does not appear to understand the conflict ... The Supreme Court has not doubled down on the Canada Health Act: it has declared it unconstitutional. Free health ...
Obituaries / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2018
... Robert Wallace Harland, OBE, PhD, was director of student health services at Queen’s University for many years. The ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Peter Thorpe, PGDip October 2018
... arrest occurs in a public place in BC. BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) launched the free app in January ... of who receives or responds to alerts. No identifiable health information (e.g., the name, birth date, or personal health number of the patient, or details about the app user) ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Linda M.N. Hoang, MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC December 2018
... organisms (CPOs) continue to be a public-health and infection-prevention and control problem globally. ... include travel to endemic countries with exposure to health care settings where these multi-drug-resistant ... organisms are highly concentrated. In 2014 the Ministry of Health mandated surveillance of CPO cases across all acute ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sergei Likhodii, PhD, DCC, FCACB June 2018
... is stressing first responders, law enforcement, and health care resources to their limit. Alcohol, marijuana, ...
News April 2018
On 6 October 2017 the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) in Vancouver located on the ... This campaign, championed by Dr Lori Brotto, a women’s health researcher, clinician, and executive director of the ... 7 years, and that’s with multiple visits to a variety of health care professionals. This is, unfortunately, because ...
News September 2018
... of multiple medications and their potential impact on health. Shared Care’s Polypharmacy Risk Reduction ... of Doctors of BC and the BC government), the First Nations Health Authority, and Interior Health worked with Elders, initiating conversations that led ...
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 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Emma Cumming, MSc January/February 2018
... and more often called from the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority region than elsewhere in BC ( Figure ). ... products; 4/20 event messaging, product packaging, and health providers should warn users about the particular ... cannabis legislation, they are of concern for population health. —Emma Cumming, MSc Field Epidemiologist, Public ...