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Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD January/February 2024
... physicians to do the work at hand. An estimated 1 million people in BC do not have a family physician. An article in ...
Premise / BY: Lauren Whitehead, MD, FRCSC Early online
... potential impacts on the economy due to this trend—fewer people entering the workforce than leaving it—are ... the aims of funding, including providing treatment for people experiencing infertility, same-sex and gender-diverse ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD March 2024
... with direct acting antivirals cures more than 95% of people with chronic HCV infection and is associated with ... Agency of Canada set targets[ 7 ] for the proportion of people living with chronic HBV or HCV infection in Canada to ... of 2023, five working groups were formed, each including people with lived experience of HBV or HCV infection, along ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... resources. Canada has 2.6 hospital beds for every 1000 people, which is behind almost every Organisation for ... BC has even less—a mere 1.95 hospital beds per 1000 people. Canada also has significantly fewer physicians ... to reaching the OECD average of 4.3 hospital beds per 1000 people by 2035, doubling our current operating room capacity, ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC March 2024
... that we are setting a very poor example for young people by normalizing drug use. Contrary to the editorial, I ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah B. Henderson, PhD April 2024
... whenever wildfire smoke is affecting air quality. Most people spend the majority of their time indoors, so cleaner ...
Premise / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) January/February 2024
... there is a crisis in primary care. Almost one-third of people who want a family doctor can’t find one, and even people who have a family physician generally find them quite ... and emotionally. We believe greater availability to the people who count on us for care is the critical, needed ...
Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM Early online
... The weight of the matter Worldwide, more than 240 million people have symptomatic and activity-limiting osteoarthritis ... 1 ] In Canada, arthritis affects more than 6 million people. More than 23% of women and 17% of men in Canada live ... to 56% of patients were women.[ 3 ] More than 650 million people worldwide have obesity,[ 1 ] currently defined as a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2024
... This month, we address you as workers yourselves: people who face unique physical and psychological risks at ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE Early online
... costs to the health care system.[ 1 ] In BC, the number of people living with chronic disease is increasing. Among ... incidence (new cases) and prevalence (the total number of people living with a condition) are sourced from the BC ... and Métis Peoples in BC, see other reports.[ 4,5 ] People living with chronic conditions were disproportionately ...