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Editorials / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD September 2006
... representing the government of Canada to his minister of health. I know Canadians care about the global pandemic of ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2006
... long been debunked. —Lloyd Oppel, MD Chair, Alternative Health and Therapeutics Committee, COHP   Dr Bell and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2006
... [1]  in keeping with the high frequency of MRSA in health care institutions. Recent reports also suggest the ... then acted as vectors to reintroduce infection back into health care centres. Strategies to reduce MRSA in both ... no longer a mandate to report these infections. Some major health centres in this province have now become sites with ...
President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, July/August 2006
... relationship. We have a chance to work with them and the health authorities, and we can bring to that relationship all ... and hone them as we begin to work with government and health authorities. We need to change, and government needs ...
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 ...