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Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS November 2022
... with Indigenous peoples requires action from all health care professionals and providers in British Columbia. ... to have on Indigenous communities, and how unsafe health care spaces have left many Indigenous patients fearful ... unsafe care and to formulate ways to create space in the health care system to better meet the needs of Indigenous ...
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... the world has just benefited from a truly amazing public health research project on COVID-19. Initial vaccine trials ... should be limited to really serious problems of a public health nature. Quality improvement would be cheaper and less ... to allow the money to be redirected to a big public health issue study of 10 000 patients? —Mark Elliott, MD ...
Letters / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2022
It is becoming increasingly clear that our future health, as well as the health of future generations, is linked to global planetary health, including the preservation of the natural ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Patrick Wong July/August 2022
... Services Reference Guide at www.worksafebc.com/en/health-care-providers/provider-types/physicians . Please note ...
News / BY: Laura McLean October 2022
... the open enrolment period by up to $2500 without proof of health. Your personal tax return and corporate financial ... applied for coverage, you’ll need to provide proof of health. The insurer will review your existing health and lifestyle to determine your eligibility and may ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP December 2022
... more frequent and more severe. Flooding affects not only health but also infrastructure and communities. Between 80% ... expected to increase due to climate change and will impact health. Flooding impacts health directly, as well as indirectly through infrastructure ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2022
... space was developed.” —Terry Lake, BC Minister of Health, May 2016 It is with great reluctance that I write ... are inundated daily with media stories of COVID leading to health worker burnout and shortages, hospital and ICU bed ... paying with their lives. Those responsible for running our health system should have seen this coming. Both prior and ...
MDs To Be / BY: Nora Tong, BDSc April 2022
... samples has also changed significantly since the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) first publication of its ... fertility concerns should include questions about general health, testicular symptoms, duration of infertility, sexual ... in a coal mine, indicating a global decline in the general health of males because low sperm counts have been associated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... and Asia. The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) Public Health Laboratory also offered this standard two-tiered test ... the early 1990s to May 2021. Since June 2021, the Public Health Laboratory has adhered to a new algorithm recommended ... immunoassay [ Figure 6 ]. In addition, the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory uses western blots on suspected samples ...
News September 2022
... for offering their expertise in the field of women’s health and providing guidance throughout the article-drafting ... psychiatry, addictions medicine, and reproductive mental health, with an emphasis on psychotherapy. Dr Hunt hopes that ... student with coauthor Dr Philip Edgcumbe while health care providers and students were challenged with ...