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Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ian Waters, MD November 2020
... PHSA administrators, specialists, and allied health professionals, we carved out the building blocks of ... identifies who is responsible for delivering every kind of health care to those with CF. Adults with CF, for example, ... created to support the screening and treatment of mental health by BC’s CF clinics. This project helped inform the ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2020
... We heard a defendant’s witnesses admit that a large health authority was submitting incorrect dates on booking ... as an opening speaker at an international conference of health executives being held in Budapest. Delegates from ... governments within Canada could claim sovereignty over the health of its citizens. “In China, government limits ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2020
... recommendation of the world’s most distinguished public health physicians. Osler was attuned to the diversity of ... publicly question the wisdom of the North American public health response to COVID-19. Does enforcing social isolation ...
News July/August 2020
... Centre, and Dr Omar Ahmad, a physician with Island Health, head of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, and a ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2020
Indigenous people in Canada suffer far worse health outcomes than the national average. Rates of maternal ... harm of residential schools are two root causes of the health and social inequities that we see today.[ 6 ] Even ... CHARGE2 framework,[ 8 ] for example, is designed to equip health care workers to mitigate unconscious bias. It suggests ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2020
... to this new norm and are quite satisfied with delivering health care via office visits or by telephone. Some of them ...
News December 2020
... Columbia are discovering that social isolation affects the health of men and women in different ways—including placing ... effect among nonpartnered women, suggesting that health care providers may want to screen for the number of ... Sciences at UBC and researcher with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences is the principal ...
News March 2020
BC health care professionals and stakeholders are invited to ... partners in areas such as pharmacy, laboratory procedures, health authorities, public health, and professional colleges and associations. All ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Connell, BSc, MPH April 2020
... osteoarthritis, injuries, and tendinopathies. Public Health Agency of Canada data indicate that the burden of ... encounters, thus reducing the number of visits to other health care professionals. Since the billing code was ... during data analysis. As this was an exploratory health services study, the patient access measure was not ...
College Library, COVID-19 / BY: Niki Baumann June 2020
... not least, we’ve been receiving questions about health care professionals’ mental health, and we can provide information about sources of ...