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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 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE June 2024
... 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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tracy Barber, RPT, Grad Dip Phys June 2024
... it is increasingly recognized as also impacting younger people. International data from the Global Burden of Disease ... osteoarthritis can be particularly problematic for younger people who may need to manage their osteoarthritis alongside ... where to find additional information if needed. How people receive this information may also be important, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel Shirvani, BSc June 2024
... care services pose a serious challenge for Indigenous people who reside in remote and rural areas. In some cases, ... and large, unfamiliar hospitals would be difficult for all people, not just those from Takla. Current policies and ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Frank X. Scheuermeyer, MD, MHSc April 2024
... 6 days,[ 17 ] in BC, which has a population of 5 million people and more than 90 000 hospital visits for chest pain ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Peter K.Y. Chan, MD, FRCPC, ISAM April 2024
... their property and belongings when they die to certain people/entities under the will; (2) the person understands ... his death and before his last will, Edna discouraged other people from seeing or talking to Jack, especially his ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2023
... increase.[ 3 , 4 ] Between January and December 2021, 7560 people died from opioid-related toxicity in Canada.[ 5 ] Gaps ... care affect youth Mental health concerns affect young people disproportionally. In BC, one in four young people live with a mental health or substance use disorder ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kloshe Tillicum Research Team: Chee Mamuk BCCDC, Simon Fraser University October 2023
... ] serve as fundamental sources of mistrust for Indigenous people in Canada today. To get to the heart of this question, ... feel like I’ve seen some really forceful approaches and people being quite aggressive about it, making these kinds of ... a poor track record in Canada when it comes to Indigenous people, and as health care providers, we have a history of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... Service Pilot Project and compares this with the number of people in BC who described each language as their only mother ... 3.6% (n = 838). For all of BC, the number of calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency was 15.1. Vancouver had 46.9 calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency, followed by Nanaimo ...