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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Drona Rasali, PhD, FACE May 2020
... and the health care resources required to manage it may be much greater than the sum of single diseases.[ 2 , 3 ] ... increasingly becoming a key public health and primary care issue in the prevention and management of chronic diseases.[ ... conditions had a multimorbidity prevalence of 12.9% in 2011/12.[ 3 ] BCCDC’s recent analysis of 16 chronic ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper January/February 2012
... strategist, and policy advisor to the BCMA in November 2011. BCMJ managing editor Jay Drap­er spoke to him in ... for in those circumstances where it is a direct one-on-one issue or conflict. And yet now that I’m here, I see so many ... final thoughts? Members who aren’t involved in the BCMA may wonder what goes on here, and they can be assured that ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC June 2012
Opioid overdose is a public health issue in British Columbia. In 2009, more than 200 deaths were ... were in persons prescribed opioid medication.[ 3 ]  In May 2011, the BC Coroners Service released a warning about a ...