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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD December 2013
... to help our patients and acquiesce.  Many extended health plans require a physician’s referral for orthotics, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jean-François Kozak, PhD, March 2013
... lives, a significant number suffer from multiple chronic health problems that limit their activities and require many social and health services. For example, over 250 000 Canadians have ... ]  Similar large increases have been projected for mental health disorders, cardiovascular disease, and impairments in ...
News May 2013
The RCMP is overhauling its employee health, disability, and support services regimen. Federal ... definition of an “insured person” under the Can­ada Health Act, and as a result of these changes members of the ... as insured persons un­der provincial and territorial health programs. As of 1 April, regular members and special ...
News July/August 2013
The Health Council of Canada’s 2013 progress report says efforts in health reform are happening too slowly to keep up with the evolving health care needs of Canadians. The report states that ...
News October 2013
A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) says that compromised wounds like ... ulcers and bed sores are a serious problem for the health system. According to the report, 30% of patients in ... In a July 2012 report, the Council of the Federation’s Health Care Innovation Working Group recommended adoption of ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ken Seethram, MD, FRCSC, FACOG December 2013
... Committee (SSC), co-chaired by the BCMA and Ministry of Health, we sit at a unique table in terms of shared ... work for all. Although the objectives of the Ministry of Health and the BCMA can sometimes be very different, the ... with their colleagues (and in some cases regions and health authorities) to come up with creative and innovative ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2013
... I take issue with is the idea that wheat consumption is a health care crisis on the level of smoking or obesity.  A ... we should eat like cavemen, we really don’t have any health statistics on that population. I’m also pretty sure ...
News March 2013
... Ontario receive better value for money from their public health care systems than other Canadians, concludes a new ... Index 2013 compares the per capita cost of provincial health care systems to the availability and quality of ... www.fraserinstitute.org . News BC middle of the road in health care value for money ...
Letters / BY: Andy Hamilton, MD, June 2013
... the more time to develop relationships. Managers in the health authorities are under enormous pressure to maintain ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD September 2013
... 2013, the BC Medical Association and the Ministry of Health announced the development of the In-patient Care ... to a comprehensive suite of joint BCMA/Ministry of Health initiatives design­ed to strengthen BC’s primary ... family practice can lower the overall annual cost to the health care system (projected cost savings of about $85 ...