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Obituaries / BY: Steve Ashwell, MD September 2019
... and Christian. Johs had a lifelong commitment to women’s health in underserviced areas and he was as comfortable in ...
News November 2019
... Research Canada study revealed that while administrative health databases are increasingly being used to study mental health in rheumatic diseases, researchers have used different ... and comparisons across publications. Administrative health databases refer to secondary data collected for ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP March 2019
... of burned dinners, rainouts, and excruciating tantrums. In health care, we have our own culture of perfection where ... to the point of burnout, or worse—to compensate for a health care system that hasn’t evolved to meet the ... defeat along the way, we cannot have progress in health care without failure. History has shown that success ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP May 2019
... is positioned to continue caring and advocating for the health of our patients, our communities, and our colleagues. ... with the Canadian Medical Association, government, health authorities, the University of British Columbia, and ... on the same team caring for the same patients in the same health care system. After everything that has happened this ...
News / BY: Arlaina Waisman, RD July/August 2019
... at various locations throughout the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) region. A referral is not needed, but ... this program services VCH residents and people from other health authorities who have a VCH surgeon. —Arlaina ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Siu-Kae Yeong, MD September 2019
... Laboratory of the BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory (BCCDC PHL) to attempt molecular-based ... suspicion of TB.   —Siu-Kae Yeong, MD UBC Public Health Resident Physician —Shazia Masud, MD, FRCPC  ... of British Columbia, St. Paul’s Hospital/Providence Health Care —Jason Wong, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC  Physician ...
Obituaries / BY: Lang Family December 2019
... of Alberta in 1955 (Mary Lou with a BSc in public health nursing). They settled first in Barrhead, Alberta, ... where Don started his career in the era before universal health care. From 1959 to 1960 they lived in Bristol, ...
News January/February 2019
PD Connect is a referral program intended to help health care professionals connect individuals diagnosed with ... be made, staff will communicate this with the referring health care professional. For more information and referral ...
News April 2019
... nutrition program that provides support to improve the health and well-being of pregnant women, new mothers, and ... The program aims to improve maternal–infant health, increase the rates of healthy birth weights, and ... and hospital preregistration. On-site access to a public health nurse, a dietitian, and a dental hygienist. For more ...
News June 2019
... and Australia issued safety advisories about the potential health risks of medications. After analyzing 1441 advisories ... their own country 10% of the time. Between 2007 and 2016, Health Canada issued safety warnings for only 50% of the drug ... professor at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health and associate professor at the University of Sydney in ...