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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC April 2024
... emotional reactions. Anxiety, fear, and confusion drive people to accept false information—especially those in ...
News January/February 2024
... over the next 3 years by age group, starting with people 55 and older. All self-collected samples will be ...
Premise / BY: Lauren Whitehead, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... 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 ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB March 2024
... gratitude.”[ 3 ] I am grateful for my health and for the people I love and those who love me. I am grateful for my ...
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, ...
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 ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... and education about Canada’s treatment of Indigenous people. It has been humbling to discover the multitude of ... deficit-based language in articles that discuss Indigenous people is one thing the Editorial Board has been working on. ... may be well intentioned; however, historically, Indigenous people have been made into research subjects and described in ...
Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM June 2024
... 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 ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... it simply makes us more alone. Yet, in the real world, people cheer when they hear someone has gotten into medical ... his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who had ALS. People would come to commiserate with Schwartz yet would ... Yet I find inspiration at work daily. I find it in the people who come together to look after a patient with ...
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 ...