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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 ...
Blog / BY: Amanda Lavigne, BScPN
... helps raise awareness of the impacts of stigma and may increase motivation to change stigmatizing behaviors and ... Harms related to substance use remain a top public health issue in virtually every jurisdiction across Canada. In ... a public health emergency was declared in the province in 2016, with 49% of deaths occurring during the pandemic.1 In ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... of Anatomy: A surgical case study” in the September 2019 issue of Surgery . Dr William Seidelman, UBC graduate, ... the accurate and artistically superior anatomical atlas may save lives and it even honors the memory of the victims, ... science during the Third Reich. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. Hill R. Jack McCreary: Paediatrician, pedagogue, ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... significantly different perspectives.  In the July/August issue of the BCMJ , the importance of “Incorporating ... of community, team work, and inclusion. Such outcomes may be important to populations that face stigma, isolation, ... using compositional analyses. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 2016;41(6 suppl 3):S294-302. Dumuid D, Olds T, Sawyer SM. ...
Blog / BY: Shelina Babul, PhD
... department visits in British Columbia for concussions in 2016/2017, 40% of patients were under 19 years of age. It is ... brain injury, and experts suspect this significant health issue is still widely underreported. The BC-specific data do ... for high performance sport in Canada. Accessed 24 May 2019. ...