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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... ] Food security means more than having enough to eat. Even people depending on soup kitchens may get enough food, but ... exists where you may not expect it. New immigrants, people who lack food skills, working families, pensioners, university students, people with limited mobility, and residents of new suburban ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2014
... reaching a record high in the developed world. Many more people are now surviving illnesses that were previously ... patients with multiple complex comorbidities. Elderly people in hospital are at high risk not only for functional ...
Letters / BY: Allan Donkin, MD, January/February 2014
... entire community has to make—not just a choice that some people can make but an option that everyone else has to choose not to take. People can no longer rest in the knowledge that their ... a high level of credibility and acceptability, putting people under pressure to choose suicide. I do not think that ...
News January/February 2014
... about who is responsible for the care of Aboriginal people. The report says that little attention has been paid ... health care for Aboriginal seniors and other Aboriginal people, citing the transfer of health authority to the new ...
News January/February 2014
Approximately 7000 people living in BC have an inherited heart rhythm condition, ...
News January/February 2014
... a condition that severely limits the vision of about 5000 people in North America. The development of this potential ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Daljeet Mahal, MSc, March 2014
... will outnumber the world’s population of 7 billion people.[ 1 ] The use of mobile communication technology such ... study exploring vulnerability among young Aboriginal people who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, Prince George, and ... and service utilization among young, transient Aboriginal people living with and at risk for HIV. This study will ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2014
... And yet above all else, it is physicians who see the people who desperately need to be physically active for their ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC March 2014
Many people consider complementary and alternative medicine to be ...
Letters / BY: John Dale, MD, April 2014
... conclusion that assisted suicide legislation will pressure people to choose suicide, but it will give many the ...