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News / BY: Erin Connors September 2024
... in 2011, we have been helping members with their life and health insurance needs. But did you know your family members ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Amy Booth, MPH December 2024
... rural and remote geography; lack of access to a regular health care provider; being too busy; experiencing ... and child care challenges; past trauma; and a colonial health system with prevalent anti-Indigenous racism.[ 5-12 ] ... and an equity-based lens,[ 2 ] in alignment with the World Health Organization’s global strategy for cervical cancer ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD March 2024
... and treatment, viral hepatitis remains a persistent public health issue in Canada[ 3 ] as well as globally.[ 4 ] As a ... in alignment with global efforts spearheaded by the World Health Organization,[ 6 ] aims to eliminate both hepatitis viruses as a public health threat by 2030. To support this goal, the Public ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Megan Edwards, PhD, MPH July/August 2024
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic; 4 ... BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory. Enhancements to surveillance Laboratory ... This system is currently being replaced by the Provincial Health Services Authority Platform for Analytics and Data, ...
Letters / BY: Frank X. Scheuermeyer, MD, MHSc October 2024
... of patients or the potential redistributive effects or health equity questions that Dr Lenskyj raises. The VCPR was ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... the province are now trained in quality improvement and health care leadership. More than 80 health care facilities in BC now have medical staff ... a surgeon, I work with all kinds of doctors, nurses, and health care providers to deliver the complex care my patients ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... considered to be any unintended complication secondary to health care intervention.[ 1-3 ] According to a Canadian ... impact of adverse events on physicians and other health care providers. Feelings of shame, grief, and guilt ... events. This aligns with current concepts of safety in health care, where success is more than simply the absence of ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Tracy Barber, RPT, Grad Dip Phys June 2024
... affects the specific joint, but can also impact overall health. It limits daily activity, particularly walking; ... alleviating factors. Asking about the patient’s general health is crucial for identifying any comorbidities and ... concentration of proteins that are hostile to articular health and can result in increases in anti-inflammatory ...
Letters / BY: Xi Yao Gui, MD September 2024
... rare or severe infectious diseases, and mental health emergencies. This is because rural emergency ... for further assessment and treatment. BC Emergency Health Services is a centralized dispatch system that ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD November 2024
... women were disproportionately impacted by poorer health than their male counterparts and that the health gap between Indigenous women and non-Indigenous women ... There are 231 calls for justice, and 16 of them pertain to health. They include the need for wraparound trauma-informed ...