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Clinical Articles / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2011
... surveillance forms, and cases reported on the public health information system) to estimate the annual number of ... diagnosed and treated than are reported to public health. Clinical picture  Ticks are most likely to transmit ... to test for evidence of Lyme disease is used by the Public Health Laboratories of the BC Provincial Health Services ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darcy Cox, PsyD, RPsych, ABPP, September 2011
... of behavior and thought with patterns that promote health and well-being.  In order to effectively change these ... developed by the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health. The evidence, although limited, suggests that in ... depressive symptoms, and im­provements in general mental health, although a global measure of GAD severity did not ...
News October 2011
... a private US foundation that promotes a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved ... cost, without radically restructuring the provincial health care system. The Issue Brief was co-authored by GPSC ...
Editorials / BY: S. Larry Goldenberg, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FCAHS December 2011
... issue, we considered the need for a compehensive men’s health program in BC, and the treatment of erectile ... we consider three other areas of importance in men’s health. Drs Bilsker and White review male suicide, a most ... considered in this theme issue are concerns of the Men’s Health Initiative of BC (MHIBC), a nonprofit umbrella ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2011
... of these developments, providers in the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) region are being encouraged to expand their ... and their clients; Aboriginal people; people with mental health disorders; people from HIV-endemic countries and their ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, April 2011
... transfer be­tween providers, patients, and allied health professionals, thus enhancing care collaboration and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James Lee, MD, July/August 2011
... will be posted on the guidelines section of the Child Health BC website:  www.childhealthbc.ca . Competing ...
News September 2011
... VP, medical affairs, at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. She previously served as medical director of ... efforts to advance women’s rights and improve the health of women, newborns, and children. Her past ... G8/G20 by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health in 2010, and being named one of Canada’s 100 most ...
Editorials / BY: S. Larry Goldenberg, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FCAHS November 2011
The health risks associated with men’s gender or mascu­linity ... past decade we have recognized the need to make men’s health a distinct and important issue—the “final piece of the puzzle” of family health. The early loss of a father, either through illness, ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Oonagh Zuberbier, MD, December 2011
... might you have pursued, if not for medicine? Professor of health policy, psychology, or literature. If not in academia ...