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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP October 2022
... 1 ] The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People defines sarcopenia as a muscle disease (failure) ... in the province continues to grow, optimal care for people with sarcopenia is essential to address the high ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) November 2021
... Addressing vaping and other types of nicotine use in young people. Applying an equity lens of environmental health and ...
Back Page / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD December 2021
... today, Canada’s MAID law is under revision to include people with mental illness in the future. That will be an ...
Back Page / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC April 2021
... but compliance with the apparatus is not great. The people in pulmonary medicine usually say that if you are not ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Anne Pousette, MD, MPH September 2021
... with healthy behaviors. During the pandemic, most people have had less contact with their primary care ... and follow up. Help your patients use step counters. Many people are not aware how sedentary they are until they ... This provides a tangible way to record progress and many people have mobile phones that can measure and record steps. ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC June 2021
... helps us shift the deeply held societal belief that people with obesity simply lack willpower and just need to ... with the intent to improve overall quality of life for people living with obesity. —Ilona Hale, MD —Priya ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Mandy Ruthnum, MD, FCFP January/February 2021
... 15 minutes. During that time, I spoke with three different people. I was booked in by a clerk, who requested my son’s ... numerous conversation with others, I was amazed how few people are aware of this number, including doctors. I suspect ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Abe Zacharias, MD, FRCPC July/August 2020
... were a diverse group of World War II veterans, Indigenous people, and patients who had survived the brutal Hong Kong ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kelsey D.M. Kozoriz, MSc, MD, CCFP December 2020
... 2015. Last year, it was estimated that almost 690 million people worldwide struggled with chronic hunger.[ 2 ] Devastatingly, 2020 will see even more people struggle to access healthy nutrition as the social and ... food insecurity affects 12% of Canadians and millions of people around the globe.[ 3 ] We can help our patients ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Alan Woodland October 2020
... their mental and physical health. In BC, the number of people over age 65 continues to increase and is expected to ... opportunities to ride as a passenger in a shared vehicle. People who ride as passengers in shared vehicles drive less ...