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Clinical Articles / BY: Gordean Bjornson, MBA March 2000
... and vaccination were developed for parents and their health-care providers. In September 1998 these packages were ... vaccination from either their family physician or local health region office. Uptake was assessed from parents’ ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martin Zelder, PhD June 2000
... in British Columbia is the future of government-funded health insurance, or medicare. Three scenarios are possible; ... is the redefinition of “accessibility” in the Canada Health Act to mean that a 25% coinsurance payment is assessed ... This is exactly the reform which was studied in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.[ 1 ]  The RAND researchers ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2000
... centre. The communities studied were from British Columbia Health Regions located outside the Lower Mainland and ... Cariboo, North West, Peace Liard, and Northern Interior health regions.[ 13-15 ] Communities lacking a hospital or ... This is because Aboriginal people, per capita, have more health problems—both physical and psychosocial—than ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
Rabies—A public health emergency Any possible human exposure to rabies ... possible unless the carcass is clearly putrid. The local health unit or one of the Animal Health District Offices of the Canadian Food Inspection ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert T. Morrison, MD, FRCPC July/August 2000
... by measurements of bone mineral density (BMD) using World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. They sought to determine ... at another ethnic group of patients using a different health-care system and in a clinical practice setting to see ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC March 2000
... years of age and older, and certain persons with chronic health problems be vaccinated yearly against influenza.[ 1 ] ... developed countries, also recommends immunization for health-care workers.[ 1 , 2 ] A distinct recommendation to health-care workers has been made yearly by NACI since 1986, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leo Wong, MD June 2000
... patient care and contributions to the hospitals and health-care system. All that combined with a health-care system in tremendous flux leaves residents caught ... drafts and currents. Hospital downsizing and shortages of health-care personnel mean that residents, the front-line ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen G.F. Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2000
... fewer lesions, better hepatic reserve, and are in better health overall. Despite this bias, the 3-year survival rate ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd June 2000
... Perhaps the medical mall will grow into a huge health centre. Within its walls would be fitness and ... sales and promotional offers, as each locale vies for the health-care dollars that may be directly or indirectly ... may adopt a practice of “office calls,” delivering health promotion, health monitoring, and diagnostic and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... Simon Fraser, Vancouver, Burnaby, North Shore, Richmond Health regions) and southern Vancouver Island (Capital Health region) were also omitted because we were mainly ... between 20000 and 30000. Second, we obtained NIA community health-care data from British Columbia Medical Services Plan ...