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Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Fok, MD, FRCPC September 2007
... Society (DPAS 410) course, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, who provide salary support for Dr Miller.   ... have demonstrated that these factors can affect physician health and safety, and the quality of patient care. Since ...
President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, November 2007
... outline the relationship and the roles of government, health authorities, the MSC, and the BCMA, and are as ... sustainable, accountable, efficient, and effective health care system. • Patient focused and physician ... the government’s obligation to improve and maintain the health of the population, to create health legislation, and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Teresa Marie Kope, MD, FRCPC April 2007
Parents may approach physicians and other health professionals with questions and concerns related to ... know about attachment and its relationship to mental health? Family physicians, developmental-behavioral ... observations. [2]  In 1950, Bowlby was asked by the World Health Organization to advise on the mental health of ...
Letters / BY: William W. Arkinstall, MD July/August 2007
... monopoly and be the only medical care provider. The Canada Health Act, introduced by the then–Health Minister Monique Begin, as her departing shot, has been a disaster for Canada’s medical health system. The Liberals at the time had guarantees from ...
Premise / BY: Michael A. Ross, MD, FRCSC October 2007
... to stand back rather than intervene. He observed that health and disease could be affected by climate, social ... are important, as is transparency in the delivery of health care. Arrogance is subversive in hospital culture, ... clerk in emergency to the blundering of the highest health bureaucrats. This is a place of healing. The secret of ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC December 2007
... I started what would become a lifetime career in public health, in the ear­ly 1970s, at Vancouver’s Pine Street ... media and in the public’s mind with the idea of public health. Francis John Blatherwick has de­fined public health for a generation of British Columbians. Whether it was ...
News / BY: Arun K. Garg, PhD, MD March 2007
... of key committees, and participate in such things as health care policy development. The assembly, like the Board, ... The 46-page document is intended as a reference for health professionals providing information to parents who are ... is an extensive bibliography. Reviewers include medical health officers, breastfeeding advocates, public health ...
Obituaries / BY: Michele Matthews (née Marinker), June 2007
... to be one of the 13 original doctors of the Algoma Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—referred to by ... those who have contributed to the development of the Group Health Centre (GHC). He and ever-beautiful Maureen moved to ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD, September 2007
... general practitioners or hospital consultants. Positive health changes were reported in 70.7% of patients and 25% ... medicine were 22.3% versus 7.8% for homeopathy. In 2006, a Health Technology Assessment report compiled on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office for Public Health supported the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and ...
Letters / BY: Bruce Williams, MD, November 2007
... crime. I think that physicians and experts in public health can make real contributions to this area and to ... Many more effective alternatives exist including mental health diversion, drug treatment programs, school- and ...