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Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Brendan Abbott,
June 2011
... pilot on Vancouver Island in 2009 with a focus on mental health and addiction. Physician and medical office assistant ... resources in the areas of cancer, cardiac, mental health and addiction, musculoskeletal, neurodegenerative, ... in delivering care and creating overall benefits to the health system. For physicians, using CHARD has proven to be ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Brian F. Russell, MD,
September 2011
... explosion of scientific and media attention related to the health effects of vitamin D supplementation. Vitamin D’s ... Conference Proceedings of First Nations Nutrition and Health (2003) outline loss of traditional foods, which has a ... infants” to assist physicians in managing this important health issue ( www.cps.ca/english/statements/ii/fnim07-01.htm ...
News /
BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC
October 2011
... water supplier or the drinking water officer in your health authority. —Perry Kendall, MBBS Provincial Health Officer News Risk of waterborne infection in BC ...
Letters /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
December 2011
... a result of the EMR rather than concurrent changes in the health system. This challenge is compounded because most ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Clay Barber,
January/February 2011
... says Dr Gary Mazowita, a family doctor with Providence Health Care and family practice lead for the Shared Care ... and specialist physicians working together to improve health outcomes and the patient journey through the health care system. The committee was formed in 2006 as a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Andre Mattman, MD, FRCPC
May 2011
... mitochondrial disease may originate from all levels of health care and include family practitioners, pediatricians, ...
Editorials /
BY: Kevin Farrell, MBChB,
July/August 2011
... problem. This approach is now available on the Child Health Network of British Columbia website ( ...
Obituaries /
BY: Richard K. Elwood, MB, BCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPC
September 2011
... Bureau of Tuberculosis in the New York City Department of Health. He came to BC in 1988 and worked as a clinician in ...
Letters /
BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD
November 2011
The Ministry of Health is to be congratulated on the $5 million awarded to ... meeting with the Honourable Mike de Jong (Minister of Health), Dr Hal Gunn, founder and CEO of InspireHealth, ... represents less than 0.03% of the entire provincial health care budget, and yet the statements above indicate ...