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Clinical Articles / BY: Maya Ignaszewski, MD January/February 2017
... Department of Physiology at the Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki, and eventually went on to become the ... depends on a number of factors, including age, underlying health, individual physical activity habits, and baseline ... activity at least 2 days a week for additional health benefits. If the goal is to lower blood pressure or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katalin Balogh, MD, PhD, FRCPC April 2017
... burnout, increased institutionalization rate, and overall health care costs. For patients presenting with behavioral ... general medical and nutritional status, care provider health, and personal safety issues.[ 7 ] Urinary and fecal ... progresses, the patient’s capacity to make personal and health care decisions will be affected. Discussing goals of ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Val Tregillus May 2017
The Legacy Congress of the Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use (CYMHSU) Collaborative was held 9 ... of care for children, youth, and families with mental health and substance use concerns. Majority of Local Action ... which now numbers more than 2600 people, including seven health authorities, three ministries (MOH, MCFD, and MEd), ...
News June 2017
... card called The Role of the British Columbia Government in Health Care, which evaluates the provincial government’s performance in terms of its health care policies, and grades platforms of the larger ... of a family doctor for every British Columbian, mental health and addiction, Indigenous health, rural and remote ...
News / BY: Blake Stitilis, MPH September 2017
... patients on ARVs.  The Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education at UBC recently released  Guidelines ... —Ruth Elwood Martin, MD Collaborating Centre for Prison Health and Education School of Population and Public Health, UBC Faculty of Medicine  News HIV ARVs called ...
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 ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2017
... the practising doctors of the province and protects the health of the people of BC. One such person is Mr Jim ... the right of that group to be covered in any new federal health plan, as all indications were that optometric services ... in a number of high-profile campaigns on improving public health (see “ Public health campaigns in the vanguard ”). ...
News April 2017
... drugs, and other treatments for a wide range of health conditions. In the next few years, they hope to test ...
Letters / BY: Marisa Wan, MD, FRCPC July/August 2017
... or all of the following domains: cognition, psychiatric health, and physical functioning.[ 2 ] Your letter is a ...
News / BY: Channelle Sawyer October 2017
... what you do best and outsource the rest.” Your financial health and, more specifically, your insurance planning, is a ...