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News June 2014
Intimate partner abuse is linked to postpartum mental health problems in a recent research article, “Intimate ... and during pregnancy as risk factors for postpartum mental health problems,” published in  BMC Pregnancy and ... linked to higher than normal levels of postpartum mental health problems. In addition to questions about their general ...
Premise / BY: Granger Avery, MD September 2014
... and emergency medicine services stabilize rural health. In their absence, the literature describes a cascade ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD December 2014
... skill in psychiatry, social work, and maternal health—the list of medical topics covered when seeing a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2014
... who desperately need to be physically active for their health and well-being. We see patients with chronic diseases, ... their quality of life and further burdening our health care system. As physicians we are better placed than ... With Your Doc This is the fifth year that the Council on Health Promotion is encouraging physicians to engage in this ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD May 2014
... advice, lifestyle advice. •    Visits for mental health problems that are stable. •    Renewal of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sean McGee, BSc (Hons), July/August 2014
... with society’s increasingly limited ability to pay for health care, creates a dangerous situation for medical ... and potential medical students, but also the Canadian health care system and public access to medical services.”[ ... in which physicians practice, such as hospitals, health authorities, medical associations, and colleges. In ...
News / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) October 2014
... reasons for this include a lack of understanding of mental health and how to recognize mental illness, a lack of ... attached to mental illness. Some of the most common mental health challenges experienced by transition-age youth, ... can be properly diagnosed and treated in a primary health care setting, yet many youth do not realize that ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Keith J. White, MD December 2014
... the safety and quality of life of our patients and on our health care system, with increased emergency department ... committee of Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health. Since then, the PRR—with significant support from ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2014
... this 90-year-old with end-stage lung disease. In my health region we have a document called Medical Orders for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2014
... A strain-specific differentiation performed at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory ... reactions to vaccination should be reported to public health. As well, vaccinated patients with subsequent zoster ...