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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) November 2019
... steps Since the Neolithic Revolution 12 000 years ago, people have sought to make lasting alterations to the ...
News March 2019
A new project aimed at supporting people transitioning back to their communities when they are ... by the BC Coroners Service in 2018. Of those, 10% (333 people) died within their first month of release from a ... throughout BC aim to address this problem by helping people with opioid-use disorders access treatment in their ...
Letters / BY: Reza Afshari, MD, MPH, PhD July/August 2019
... with the issue. A picture is worth a thousand words! People may forget the text but are more likely to remember ...
Premise / BY: James M. Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC April 2019
... should not be surprising if health care professionals and people with type 2 diabetes are confused or frustrated by the ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD October 2019
... first set of cheaters, the last moments of life. I mean, people do document these things, but sharing them proudly ... we are always transitioning. In life, as we get older, people tend to just become more invisible, especially women. We exist, we keep on going, but for most people, it’s as though there is a mute on being interesting ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2019
... not a normal part of aging. The first support group for people with dementia was not formed until 1993, and it was ... Only in the past few years have memoirs been written by people with dementia. This pattern is a symptom of the stigma ... to learn from qualitative studies about the experience of people actually living with dementia.  A meta-synthesis ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2019
... generated by the necessary care of other patients. Most people are very understanding, some less so. The 90-year-old ...
News December 2019
... a major public health challenge. In Canada, one in three people (approximately 9.1 million) will be affected by mental ...
News April 2019
... (STI) testing removes some of the barriers that prevent people from getting tested while providing key information ... online sexual health service in BC and is available to people living in Metro Vancouver and, in partnership with ... have been completed since it launched in 2014, and 43% of people have used it for testing more than once. While online ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB September 2019
... work that brought me into contact with many memorable people who were far removed from my way of life—alcoholics, ...