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MDs To Be / BY: Ryan Danroth, BSc March 2018
... . . . [as] the evidence strongly suggests that countless people have become infected with HIV as a result of sharing ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jay Slater, MD January/February 2018
Few people who consider the future of health care can argue that ...
MDs To Be / BY: Justin Burton, MSc, UBC Medicine, Class of 2018 January/February 2018
... services to approximately 15 000 predominantly Indigenous people spread throughout roughly 100 villages. The Missionary ... affected by cataracts or pterygium, and showed that the people in the Napo region had to contend with more than ... the comparisons are not limited to rural populations; the people in the Napo region struggle with the same issues of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Charuka Maheswaran, MD May 2018
... of trained personnel.[ 2 ] It is estimated that people living on reserve are 90 times more likely to lack ... and Hudson found that in remote Indigenous communities, people often rely on bottled water even though it is ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews July/August 2018
... Spanish. Since moving to Vancouver I try to care for people in their first language, and in return they correct my ... spot, there is a mismatch between the jobs we are training people for and the jobs that are available. That is why I’m ... their work and personal lives and continue to grow as people and healers. They want models of support that allow ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tommy Gerschman, MD, FRCPC, MSc September 2018
... remain the preferred source of health information for many people.[ 1 ] Last year, the CMA’s General Council passed a ... questionnaire, they likely overrepresent the number of people who are adequately physically active. Even if we take ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD November 2018
... weather events.[ 1 ] As a result, interactions between people, the environment, and pathogens will change. Here we ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: David Unger, MD December 2018
... themselves are potentially harmful, and that they expose people to risks of addiction—an increasingly fatal disease. ...