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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE June 2024
... well-being and result in significant costs to the health care system.[ 1 ] In BC, the number of people living ... and are available by age group, sex, and geographic health region. Information on gender is not available. For ... BC Observatory for Population & Public Health, BCCDC Notes The BC Chronic Disease Registries are produced by the ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD November 2019
The Canadian Medical Association Statement on Physician Health and Wellness identifies physician health as a quality indicator in the overall functioning of ... pamphlet published by the Physician Health Program[ 3 ] notes that physician burnout is more prevalent and more ...
News&Notes December 2017
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need ... this program.  This article has been peer reviewed. News&Notes Special report: Rural echocardiography in northern BC: ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Andrew Hurlburt, MD April 2016
... become pregnant should discuss all travel plans with their health care provider to assess their risk for Zika exposure ... and unclear duration of persistence in tissues, the Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that women returning from ... that her pregnancy might be affected. The patient notes that she and her husband did get a few mosquito bites ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper December 2016
... that has conducted member and employee research in the health care sector for 20 years. We received hundreds of ... report: BCMJ 2016 Member/Reader Research report (PDF) News&Notes BCMJ member research results ...
News&Notes April 2015
... epigenome. The project, called the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Epigenomics Program, provides a core set of ... for studying the role of the epigenome in human health and disease. In particular, the paper “Integrative ... the program, visit  www.roadmapepigenomics.org . News&Notes BC researchers unravel health/disease map ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... and following the recommendations of an independent Child Health BC report, the BC government announced a new, ... parents no longer have to choose between their child’s health and their family’s financial security. One father ... the Unsafe at School website as they are available. News&Notes Special feature: Safe at school at last ...
News&Notes / BY: Neil Pollock, MD, October 2014
... Dr Jeffrey Klausner, a professor of medicine and public health at UCLA, and asked him to find an expert willing to ... in Haiti, and a wonderful start to a sustainable public health initiative.  Despite the challenges ahead, my ... for surgeons from various regions of Rwanda.   News&Notes Teaching a technique to improve health in Haiti ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... the community had not had a physician since the Interior Health Authority took over jurisdiction of the area from the ... from the challenges and rewards that I have.  News&Notes Special feature: A remote opportunity: The joys and ...
News&Notes / BY: Chris Fraser, MD, January/February 2014
... illnesses. Surrounded daily by the overwhelming, horrific health consequences and human suffering imposed by the ... finds hope and inspiration in his accomplishments. News&Notes Special feature: My improbable encounter with Nelson ...