From Fort St. John to Victoria, and Cranbrook to Dease Lake, effects of climate change, including wildfires, drought, flooding, and severe weather events, are occurring with increasing frequency and severity across the province.[1] It is estimated that there has been a 1.4 °C average temperature increase across British Columbia in the last century, with an increase of 1.3 to 2.7 °C projected by 2050.[1] The health effects of this warming are numerous and multifaceted with implications for clinical practice across specialties.[2]
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition) defines neurodevelopmental disorders as “a group of conditions with onset in the developmental period. The disorders typically manifest early in development, often before the child enters grade school, and are characterized by developmental deficits that produce impairments of personal, social, academic, or occupational functioning.
Compass is a province-wide service to support evidence-based care for all BC children and youth living with mental health and substance use concerns. Community care providers such as primary care providers, specialist physicians, child and youth mental health team clinicians, Foundry clinicians, and concurrent disorders/substance use clinicians have access to information, advice, and resources they need in order to deliver appropriate and timely care to children and youth close to home.
The Canada India Network Society was established in 2010 to connect leaders from Canada and India in order to build collaborative opportunities among the countries’ academic institutions and industries. The Canada India Network Initiative 2018 was the society’s third conference. Though focused on a subset of the South Asian population, the conference vision was global engagement and building links between people through health care.
Simplistic approaches to the treatment of obesity focusing on restrictive diets or increased exercise power the lucrative weight-loss industry and provide endless hours of reality television, but provide clinicians with no useful models to help those who struggle with serious obesity. While research has shown almost every popular diet to assist in weight loss, there is no diet that seems to help more than a small fraction of participants beyond a couple of years. Further, most gain back the weight they lost.
