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Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2022
... had the oldest average age of mothers in Canada.[ 1 ] In 2016, the average age of a person giving birth in BC was 31.5 ... to evolve. Advancing reproductive age is a public health issue. Even though society has changed since my parents’ ... 10 , 11 ] A Statistics Canada survey published in December 2021 made headlines for the 19.2% of respondents who ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... and that of other residents increasing annually from 2016 to the present. In the first 7½ months of the COVID-19 ... routine measurement of health system performance on this issue, serving to mask a problem that this review has ... on First Nation health governance. 2019. Accessed 27 December 2020. ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Thomas S. Watson, MD, DPhil March 2021
... (via Ovid), and Google Scholar were searched between 5 December 2017 and 16 January 2018, and the search was updated ... meta-analysis (by Yousefifard and colleagues[ 8 ] in 2016), which found the sensitivity of ultrasound for rib ... and identified what they viewed as the most significant issue with existing studies supporting ultrasound: the ...
Letters / BY: John Sehmer, MD March 2017
In a letter to the editor published in the December issue of the  BCMJ  [2016;58:551-552], Dr Gerrard Vaughan, president of the ...
Letters / BY: Robert Love, MD January/February 2017
... interest that I note an article and an editorial from the December 2016 issue of  Annals of Internal Medicine , which show that for ...
Blog / BY: Amanda Lavigne, BScPN
... Harms related to substance use remain a top public health issue in virtually every jurisdiction across Canada. In ... a public health emergency was declared in the province in 2016, with 49% of deaths occurring during the pandemic.1 In ... of Canada. Stigma around drug use. 2021. Accessed 20 December 2022. ...