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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 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
In the summer of 2011 we participated in a project to look at the potential of ... experiences, we are concerned the idea of Art Days may be perceived differently than we in­tended. We know in ... values of a patient are different from one’s own.  The issue of cultural safety has moved beyond New Zealand and ...
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 ...