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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD October 2006
... addresses many concerns of the BCMA’s Child and Youth Health Committee (CYHC) and the Council of Health Promotion. [1]  In some respects, it is a repetition ... ministry will never solve the complex issues in child health, child protection, and the care of children and youth ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP May 2006
... to come across a news headline highlighting yet another health problem that could be prevented, reduced, or treated ... British Columbia believed they were active enough for good health, a significant proportion of BC adults do no strenuous ... kids physically active. The HSF 2006 annual report on the health of Canadians looked at the wave of baby boomers ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP September 2006
... benefits You may already be familiar with the WorkSafeBC health care and rehabilitation benefits that your patients ... include short-term disability wage loss payments, certain health care and rehabilitation costs, long-term benefits for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pankaj Dhawan, MD, FRCPC, November 2006
... brain injury and who live in the Vancouver Coastal Health region. Referrals can be made from emergency ... will be used, and to decrease their dependence on the health care professionals by limiting the visits to the ... in a community-based program funded by the Ministry of Health called Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions. ...
Letters / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2006
... extend beyond the individual to improve the collective health of our communities. There is a body of medical ... reduction, and clinical intervention. The BCMA Council on Health Promotion is interested in striking a new committee to ... Munro at the BCMA.   Bill Mackie, MD Chair, Council on Health Promotion Letters Addiction medicine ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2006
... offered me time to reflect on one facet of our current health care crisis. After the first 30 minutes of what I now ... vulnerable citizens at the expense of whatever remaining health reserves they possess and, in some (often highly ... legislators to overhaul their own previously dysfunctional health care systems with success. However, as citizens and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: G. Ross Baker, PhD, September 2006
... a prolonged hospital stay, or death. AEs are caused by health care management (the care provided to patients) rather ... disease process. Not all AEs are avoidable given current health care knowledge. The Canadian Adverse Events Study ... Reviews were done in two stages. First, nurses or health data personnel reviewed the records for the presence ...
Premise / BY: Faith E. Hayman, LLB, BA, BEd April 2006
... is critical to most people’s financial survival. When health issues interfere with an individual’s ability to ... at many levels of their lives: in addition to the loss of health and the loss of one’s ability to earn a livelihood, ... the nature of an insurance contract tied to a person’s health status thus: “few contracts could affect one’s ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) July/August 2006
Patients are exposed to many sources of health information. While not all sources are of the same ... to bring the best available scientific evidence to bear on health concerns. Yet this process is not necessarily mirrored by other groups offering health advice. The use of complementary and alternative ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2006
... data for over a decade on how BC youth view their own health. It is unique data, acquired through questionnaires in ... has been extremely important in developing policy about health education and health care for youth. However, the scope of youth activities ...