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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC May 2023
... decisions, leading to multiple co-benefits [ Box ].[ 1 ] Co-benefits of environmentally sustainable health care: ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Jennifer E. Nuk, MSc, CGC, CCGC July/August 2023
... colorectal cancer syndrome were updated in 2022.[ 1 ] The recommendations incorporate an updated review of the ... but remain unchanged from the previous guidelines [ Table 1 ]. In 2018, the Banff Consensus, developed by the Canadian ... individuals without a family history of colorectal cancer: 1.37 (95% CI, 0.76-2.46) in pooled cohort studies. The ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM November 2023
... of patients who have a workplace injury or illness.[ 1 , 2 ] Evidence shows that having conversations early and ... Compensation Act that affect return to work. Starting 1 January 2024, employers and workers will have a legal duty ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2023
... in Canada, especially during periods of transition.[ 1 ] Most recently, the importance of mental health has come ... and aftercare services,” as described in Indicator 3.5.1 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.[ 9 ] A ... occur less often, if any at all. I am grateful that the 1:1 sessions with [the Foundry Work and Education Program ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tanya Fairweather, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2023
... of health, including the harms of worklessness,[ 1-3 ] and want to provide the best care and advice to ... it to WorkSafeBC Prevention Services at 604 276-3100 or 1 888 621-7233; your call can be anonymous. A request for ... request (via the RACE app or by calling 604 696-2131 or 1 877 696-2131) to discuss. —Tanya Fairweather, MD, CCFP, ...
Back Page / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD September 2023
... a serious and incurable illness leading to incapacity.”[ 1 ] Persons suffering solely from a mental illness who meet ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC December 2023
The new BC Pediatric Nutrition Guidelines[ 1 ] introduce a holistic, family-centred approach to feeding ... cereal). Avoid all honey (even pasteurized) until 1 year of age due to the risk of infant botulism. Encourage ...
Letters / BY: Richard S. Taylor, MB, BS, FRCPC January/February 2023
... ten minutes they had offered our child Lupron.’”[ 1 ] Was this an adequate psychosocial assessment? The parents ...
MDs To Be / BY: Samantha Gibbon, BSc April 2023
... workers, recommendations for physicians were born [ Box 1 ]. These recommendations invite physicians to enrich their ... of Indigenous people affected by the MMIWG tragedies.[ 1 , 2 ] It is important to note that it is not only women and ... of how to safely and efficiently provide care.[ 1 ] As the number of both documented and undocumented missing ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Rachel Grimminck, MD, FRCPC, DABPN, CGP July/August 2023
... (MHSU) disorders are experiencing a “quality chasm”[ 1 ] and are dying at unprecedented rates, in part due to ... opioid crisis. The 2023 BC provincial budget includes $1 billion for MHSU funding over the next 3 years. However, it ... is perfectly designed to get the results it gets,”[ 1 ] it’s time to treat structural stigma as a ...