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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Nadine Caron, MD, December 2007
The BCMA’s Council on Health Promotion (COHP) has been in existence since 1957, with the subcommittee on Aboriginal Health following in 1968. The Committee on Aboriginal Health (COAH) is an essential subcommittee given that Canada ...
News / BY: Bill Rife, MD, May 2007
... letters in the “Password” field. The BC Ministry of Health, Population Health and Wellness Division will be sending out an ... your patient immunization information directly to public health through the usual channels. A notice will be sent out ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... as chair of the BCMA’s Alternative Therapies and Allied Health Committee to espouse his personal anti-complementary ... of individuals.”  —Lloyd Oppel, MD Chair, Allied Health and Alternative Therapies Committee Letters CME ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP October 2007
... in occupational medicine, with a master’s in public health, chaired the American College of Occupational and ... ASAM Cert., former executive director of the Physician Health Program of BC. • Medical Legal Issues Pertaining to ... professor at UBC, as well as practitioner at a community health centre, private methadone clinic, and chronic pain ...
Letters / BY: Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC March 2007
... Disease Outcome Quality Initiative (KDOQI) guidelines. BC Health and the BCMA Guidelines and Protocols Advisory ...
Obituaries / BY: Michael Cook, MD, June 2007
... patients at Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant/Midtown Mental Health, she balanced her public service with private ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... in their profession and become advocates for improving health care. And he wants to see them become actively ... you know there’s a lot involved there. And hopefully the health authorities that are hiring them will be up-front, and ... good government relations. When government does something health-related that we feel is wrong, we’re able to say so ...
News / BY: Michael F. Myers, MD, November 2007
... spoke at the International Conference on Physician Health in 2002. With eloquence and grace, she told us about ... an increasingly common and pressing issue in our health care system. It is a phenomenon that we must never ... colleges of physicians and surgeons, provincial physician health programs, and all physicians in leadership and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pamela S. Lansky, MA, MEd, RCC, April 2007
... maternal mood following pregnancy is a frequent mental health concern that directly affects mothers’ well-being ... tension; mother, partner, and family of origin mental health problems; poverty and other life stressors. Therefore, ... personal and family history of depression or other mental health issues, marital disturbance, poor social support, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patty Daly, MD, FRCPC June 2007
... pandemic planning efforts from governments and public health officials. Since influenza pandemics spread primarily ... settings, community physicians will provide much of the health care response during the next pandemic. However, ... considering the issues facing physicians in other public health emergencies. Influenza A viruses Physicians are very ...