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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
... going without food.[ 1 ] Research shows that families may use strategies such as delaying payments for bills or ... impact food insecurity as they cannot address the issue of poverty.[ 4,6,7 ] Physicians can support their ... families. Food insecurity rose significantly in BC between 2005 and 2012,[ 9 ] and to prevent it from increasing ...
News July/August 2010
... regions in BC over a 4-year period. Published in the June issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the UBC study examined all ... reaching a high of 26.3% of in-hospital deliveries in 2005–2006. Until recently, BC had the highest cesarean rate ... system. The researchers suggest potential reasons may include the differences in practitioners’ responses to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC June 2008
... treatment. Managing injured, intoxicated drivers is an issue of significant importance to emergency departments. ... of vehicle crashes in which alcohol played a key role. In 2005, alcohol was a contributing factor in over 28% of all ... a patient to the OSMV if that patient has a condition that may affect driving and the practitioner has advised the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD October 2007
... the concept to the Council of Health Promotion in 2005. Working with partners including the UBC Department of ... diseases originate in childhood, and lifelong disabilities may be prevented with good perinatal and pediatric care. ... or lessen many of these problems. In the July/August 2005 issue of the BCMJ, the Child and Youth Health Committee ...
News / BY: Tara Lyon April 2007
... and Miraculous Cures  by Vincent Lam, MD. Anchor Canada, 2005. ISBN 0-385-66144-4. Paperback, 353 pp. $17.95. So Dr ... a little book about the flu (reviewed in the December 2006 issue) and thinks he is an author. The “Laminator” has ... in a responsible manner is often a challenge. Patients may bring in their unused meds to doctors’ offices, and ...
News July/August 2007
... be read on its own. Those not facing a terminal illness may wish to focus on the introduction as well as the sections ... Open Enrollment will be coming your way in the September issue of the  BCMJ. —Sandie Braid, CEBS Assistant ... 2007. The first $10 million was distributed based on the 2005 Recruitment and Retention proposal that was developed by ...
News / BY: Geraldine Vance, APR, September 2007
... Part 1 and 2 has also been revised and is included in this issue’s polybag.  The Antenatal Record Part 1 and 2 (BCPHP ... TT-WNV WNV developing within 4 weeks of blood transfusion may be transfusion-associated. Suspected cases of TT-WNV ... and supplemental assays available in 2003. Transfusion 2005;45:492-499. 2. Centers for Disease Control and ...
News December 2006
... where a physician is deemed uninsurable, to decline to issue coverage altogether. The amount of coverage is based on ... and election follows the premature and sudden death, last May, of director-general Dr Jong-Wook Lee. The ... specialist physicians who were practising in BC during the 2005–06 fiscal year. These funds are being distributed by ...
News / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd May 2006
... David T. Neilipovitz. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005. ISBN 0776605976. Paperback, 292 pages. $35. This book ... in general, often characteristic of this age group, may actually put them at further risk of contracting ... is diagnosed with cancer within 90 days of the policy issue date, coverage will be rescinded and premiums will be ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2006
... Leslie T. Foster. Victoria: Western Geographical Press, 2005. ISBN 0-919838-29-4. Paperback, 233 pages. $24.95. This ... and co-guest editor of the BCMJ’s September theme issue on patient safety (BCMJ 2006;48:324-341). Dr Michael ... 5 years, to identify adverse drug reaction markers that may be used to predict and prevent drug toxicity in children. ...