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Clinical Articles, COVID-19 /
BY: Ka Wai Cheung, MD, MPH, FRCPC
March 2023
... Western Canada and is the second largest in Canada. In 2016, the Vancouver Physician Staff Association was formed to ... in the Vancouver Physician Staff Association raised the issue of burnout. The Vancouver Coastal Health senior ... unprecedented challenges to the health care profession and may affect different specialties in different ways and to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
July/August 2020
... (COVID-19) is taking a devastating toll globally. As of May 2020, there have been 76 000 cases of COVID-19 ... an ongoing public health emergency was declared in April 2016 related to high rates of drug overdose deaths. In the ... making it difficult to determine implicated substances and issue meaningful community alerts. Overdose deaths increased ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD
June 2017
... access to food due to financial constraints.”[ 3 ] The 2016 Priority Health Equity Indicators for British ... 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 ...
President's Comment /
BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB,
March 2008
... practising BCMA members were invited to participate, and 2016 members completed the survey, giving it an impressive ... response rate. The full results are enclosed in this issue of the BCMJ, and I encourage you to read them. On the ... that affect practising members. These last two concerns may be addressed with the implementation of the proposed ...