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Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2006
... no support, no respect, very disenfranchised by their health authority or by some other system, are very poignant. ... also interesting to go from talking to the Minister of Health, to the Deputy Minister, to the Dean of UBC, all ... the other conflicts that come up at work with other health care providers, of all kinds and all positions. Some ...
Letters / BY: Barry Koehler, MD, FRCPC December 2006
... as to either efficacy or safety, the repeated reports from Health Canada as to the toxicity of various products, and the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP March 2006
... human cases reported in eight Canadian provinces. Public health officials regularly monitor mosquito populations and ... with WNV activity in British Columbia. The Public Health Agency of Canada web site ( ... with immunosuppression, are at greater risk for serious health effects. • Evaluate your patient’s risk of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Krawciw, MD July/August 2006
... medical care and rehabilitation to injured workers. Health care quality improvement represents a revolutionary ... in that discussion and process. Much of the evolution of health care improvement occurred during our own practice ... Finally, this concept was taken to a system level by health care management researchers at the Institute of ...
Letters / BY: Andy Hamilton, MD, October 2006
... (PSSP) and with the cooperation of the BCMA and the health authorities, the province is well on its way to ... have accurate data that are comparable within and between health authorities. In tandem with the SPR, prioritization ... recommendation number 3 that “the BC Government and Health Authorities increase operating room capacity by at ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC May 2006
... rates and a surge in community-associated MRSA and health care-facility norovirus outbreaks have brought the ... that coordination and collaboration were needed to improve health care- associated infection (HCAI) prevention and ... to long-term care homes to physician offices. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) estimates that the burden of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2006
... Mr Peter Durrant, the executive director of Ministry of Health’s eHealth Program, who spoke about the many health information technology projects currently underway. A ... were major gaps in the care he received, and I felt the health care system had really let him, and my family, down. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC November 2006
... Department of Psychiatry  Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, Clinical Professor, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Patti Dods, MET April 2005
Exposure to air pollutants is an important public health problem in British Columbia. Conservative estimates ... visits caused annually by air pollution. [1] From a human health perspective, particulate matter is the air pollutant ... Exposure to PM 2.5  has been linked to many adverse health effects including premature death, exacerbation of ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2005
... seen in the eyes of our prime minister and his minister of health as they faced the media following the Supreme Court of ... (SCC) decision on medicare. “There will be no two-tier health care,” they echoed in near harmony. “We must ... suffering and sometimes dying on waiting lists for health care? In rejecting laws that have forced Canadians to ...