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News / BY: Sinden Luciuk, September 2011
... coverage without having to re-qualify. Maintaining your health Better than anyone, you know that an ounce of ... dental care, eye exams, prescriptions, and other proactive health maintenance may fall to the wayside due to the high cost of these types of expenses. Extended health care and dental insurance available through the BCMA ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2011
... a number of meetings chaired by administrators of my local health region. Since I don’t want to single any one group ... range of integrated community programs designed to improve health system capacity and foster a population health focus that will help sustain care and services across ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, December 2011
... aspirations (including an exit plan), dreams, interests, health, giving back to society, and so on. In order to ...
Premise / BY: Jamie Graham, January/February 2011
... the samples will not endanger the subject’s life or health.  2) That, in the doctor’s expert opinion, the ...
News May 2011
... program provides clients with support to access social and health care services, HIV/AIDS information, referral, ...
News July/August 2011
... medical women, hear about new advances in women’s health care, and connect with colleagues and students. ... leadership, work-life/home-life balance, phy­sician health, media, career change, preventive health, immunization, cervical cancer, contraception, and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD October 2011
British Columbians can now call or e-mail Health Link BC’s Dietitian Services with any nutrition or ... so the potential bacteria are not given a chance to grow. Health Canada has determined that either method should be ... allergies and may even make them more likely to occur. For health reasons other than the prevention of allergic ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, November 2011
... citizens of British Columbia with the highest standard of health care while achieving maximum professional satisfaction ... relationship with the BC government, and the Ministry of Health in particular. He stood up for physicians, played ... have benefited not only physicians, but patients and the health care system as well.  Mark is well aware that an ...
Council on Health Promotion April 2011
... May 10 is the annual day proclaimed by the World Health Organization to draw attention to the importance to our health of being physically active. This event began last year ... event is sponsored as a formal project by the Council on Health Promotion with the goal of having an event in every ...
News June 2011
... aims to raise awareness and understanding of mental health and addiction and holds the National Mental Health and Addiction Awards each year to acknowledge and ... Programming An organization working in the areas of public health, human rights, and advocacy, VANDU was born out of the ...