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Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB December 2012
... forward to the approaching year with hopes of happiness, health, peace, and prosperity for everyone. To those of you ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD January/February 2012
... feedback to physicians by patients, colleagues, and health care staff. The questionnaires can be designed to ... leave it up to you to connect the dots as to where the health authorities, Ministry of Health, and College are heading to comply with the Cochrane ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2012
The Mental Health module from the GPSC’s Practice Support Program ... to help them screen patients for a wide range of mental health conditions. The treatment approaches presented through ... in BC have limited training in the field of mental health care, yet family physicians are often the sole care ...
Letters / BY: Marc Kazimirski, JD, June 2012
... doctor cannot access in a timely way through the public health care system. And when advocating for my clients we ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2012
... we need to do the same by working with the government, the health authorities, and UBC to come to a mechanism where ... to say that the absolute greatest advance in women’s health (and men’s health too), was the development of the HPV vaccine. When I ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: David Florkowski, PhD, MEd, ATC, CSCS, CEAS, CFCE, October 2012
... MEd, ATC, CSCS, CEAS, CFCE WorkSafeBC Program Manager, Health Care Services, Visiting Specialists Clinic —Robert ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Travis Hottes, MSc, March 2012
... to treatment regimens. In this context, the Public Health Agency of Canada is recommending immediate changes to ... of individual gonococcal cases and in­form public health surveillance of drug resistance,  N. gonorrhoeae ... shortly. The BCCDC, in partnership with the BC Public Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory, will continue to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Prabjit Barn, MSc, May 2012
... lowest level of a building, such as basements.  In 2007 Health Canada lowered the guideline for annual radon ... Environmental Protection Agency (150 Bq/m3) and the World Health Or­ganization (100 Bq/m3).[ 2 ]  Although many homes in BC may have radon concentrations below the Health Ca­nada guideline, particularly those lo­cated in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM July/August 2012
... Zoonotic Diseases and Emerging Pathogens,  BCCDC Public Health  Microbiology & Reference Laboratory, PHSA ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Simon W. Rabkin, MD, FRCPC, FACC October 2012
... the phenomena labeled clinical inertia, which occurs when health care providers do not initiate or intensify therapy ... of some antihypertensive agents may explain why some health care providers appear willing to accept small blood ... simple ways to uncover this problem. Collaborative health care models with a physician, home care nurse, and ...