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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.[ ... BC residents 20 years or older had multimorbidity (2+) in 2014/15.[ 2 ] Another Canadian study using data for five ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2016
... all the generalist pieces of being a family doctor my dad may not have had an opportunity that day to receive the best ... the health care needs of our populations. What health care issue do you think is not getting enough attention right now? ... First, the Commonwealth Fund released a report in late 2014 showing that Canada scores 10th out of 11 in First World ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2014
... entire system is never going to be fixed--as soon as one issue is addressed, major or minor, something else crops up. ... find that if you hear people out and you work together, it may take more time, but when you achieve a consensus decision ... Q&A with Dr Bill Cavers: Doctors of BC President 2014-15 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sophie Y. Wang, BSc, July/August 2014
... antimicrobial resistance demonstrates the severity of this issue and calls for concerted action among all government ... is available at  www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/amr-report/en . To evaluate the scope of the issue, ... resource-constrained settings.[ 1 ] The use of carbapenems may also accelerate the development of carbapenem resistance, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... version of the article published in the January/February 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:29,46). The BC Centre for Disease ... enough to eat. Even people depending on soup kitchens may get enough food, but the food they receive is often of ...