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News, COVID-19 January/February 2021
Effective 14 December 2020, health authorities are accepting expressions of interest for ... transitioning to the contract should contact their health authority’s Medical Affairs Department to discuss next steps. The health authority will notify the Ministry of Health of the ...
Premise / BY: Christopher O.Y. Li, BSc May 2021
... endured appalling racist and insulting comments from health care professionals as she was dying in a Quebec ... continue to face discrimination and bias. The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2021
... country, and with support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), a UBC team is leading the ... will provide those who are pregnant and breastfeeding, health care providers, the PHAC, National Advisory Committee ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD September 2021
... practitioner (Section 54). This means that the Ministry of Health is able to recover funds from doctors who order tests ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Chris Rumball, MD April 2021
... in January that the subcommittees of the Council on Health Promotion (COHP), including the Emergency and Public ... be surprising. We observe that nearly all positive public health advances, since the 1854 destruction of Broad ... of the BCMA/Doctors of BC history would confirm this. Health advocacy can be controversial and polarizing. ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD June 2021
... We will continue to promote the value doctors bring to the health care system, their patients, and communities, and the ... contribution of doctors to maintaining capacity within the health care system. Our negotiations communications to ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Linda Calvert, BScPT October 2021
... on WorkSafeBC’s Hand Therapy Program, please contact the Health Care Programs team at 604 232-7787 or toll-free 1 866 ... or visit the hand therapy page at www.worksafebc.com/en/health-care-providers/rehabilitation/hand therapy . If you ... —Linda Calvert, BScPT WorkSafeBC Program Manager, Health Care Programs WorkSafeBC WorkSafeBC’s Hand Therapy ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael R. Lyon, MD, ABOM December 2021
... a 50% reduction in cardiovascular disease risk, lower health care costs, and better quality of life. Post-hoc ... requires significant commitment from both patients and health care providers, the benefits of increasing type 2 diabetes remission rates to patients, the health care system, and society as a whole are impossible to ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI January/February 2020
... 2018 guidelines from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.[ 13 ] This is a committee that excludes experts funded by the federal Minister of Health through the Public Health Agency of Canada. When challenged in question period ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP March 2020
... coastal environment will lead to severe impacts on health. In British Columbia, 80% of the population lives ... land on elevated ground. Displacement also has long-term health impacts. A 2017 study from the United Kingdom found a ... cardiac events.[ 3 , 4 ] In addition, much of the existing health infrastructure in BC will require relocation as a ...