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Specialist Services Committee / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP April 2021
... Health Authority. I wanted to study this patient-based issue through a quality-improvement lens, with value-based ... residents’ food complaints by 20%. Beginning in March 2018, I started measuring how much food was being wasted at ... than the dishware, cutlery, or environment that others may deem important. With social isolation more extreme due to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2021
... Sales approached US$1 billion in the United States in 2018, and the market is projected to reach US$6.2 billion by ... (including children and pregnant women), as consumers may often be unaware that there is alcohol in kombucha.[ 5 ] ... BC Centre for Disease Control’s recent study into this issue[ 5 ] recommends that: Labeling must clearly indicate ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tom Brocklehurst September 2019
Canada’s legalization of recreational cannabis in October 2018 reignited the issue of workplace impairment for many employers and workers ... not assign impaired workers to activities where impairment may create an undue risk and must not permit workers to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD July/August 2019
... from locations near urbanized areas around Puget Sound. In 2018 investigators reanalyzed mussel tissues collected in ... of opioids, the Washington study illustrates the larger issue of CECs in the environment and their potential adverse ... impacts. CECs of greatest concern include those which may not pose an immediate effect through acute exposure, as ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi July/August 2018
... as many as 60% of youth who are worried about a health issue do not consult a health care provider and avoid going to a doctor’s office.[ 2 ] This may be due to barriers like transportation challenges for ... doctors have been providing weekly clinics since January 2018. Shuswap North Okanagan According to school district ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Helen Thi, BA March 2018
... while considering the effects that medical conditions may have on the functions necessary for driving. Family ... of a Condition Affecting Fitness and Ability to Drive. The issue of assessing a patient’s ability to drive may be ... Introduction of the Enhanced Road Assessment As of 1 March 2018, RoadSafetyBC will be using a new Enhanced Road ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... What brought this to my attention was a report in a recent issue of the Economist , “Not enough is known about the ... discs, or other hygienic products. Each of these devices may need changing several times a day over 4 to 6 days each ... Medieval to modern menstruation. Kt by Knix. 23 May 2018. Accessed 4 January 2023. ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... brought my attention to an article in the 2 December 2017 issue: “Gay twin may offer an answer to mystery of our sexuality.” The ... in his home town of Winnipeg, he took his own life.  In 2018 we are still in the dark about the way our sexual ...
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 ... for tackling stigma in the health care setting In April 2018 the Interior Health Authority launched the Use Safe ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... to themselves. In some situations the exhausted physician may even consider the symptoms to be a mark of heroism, of ... cowardliness in the line of fire) is a legitimate health issue. Monday, 10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day. ... reading Lynn Holden. ABC Bookworld. Accessed 10 September 2018. https://abcbookworld.com/writer/holden-lynn.  Blog ...