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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 ... survey was promoted via a series of events from October to November 2020, including weekly Vancouver Physician Staff ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), JD, LLM, SJD March 2021
... progress in recent years. This includes the adoption in November 2019 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous ... and that of other residents increasing annually from 2016 to the present. In the first 7½ months of the COVID-19 ... routine measurement of health system performance on this issue, serving to mask a problem that this review has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc April 2020
... discrimination, to all social and health services.[ 5 ] In November 2019 British Columbia was the first province to ... and presented at various conferences, including the 2016 Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research and ... like to acknowledge that the activities discussed in this issue of the BCMJ took place on the traditional unceded ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew D. Burkey, MD, PhD, MPH January/February 2020
... epidemiological study of over 9000 adults brought the issue into the public health spotlight.[ 3 ] This study in a ... ACEs summits hosted by the CYMHSU Community of Practice in November 2017 and May 2019 brought together experts, ... community in your area: www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2016/06/self-healing-communities.html . Review the Centers ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... attention was focused on how QI could favorably affect the issue of medical errors. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was ... at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in October 2016. This was an exciting achievement, but it highlights the ... Plan. Building a heart healthy Canada, 2009. Accessed 1 November 2016. ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2017
... was approved unanimously, as were the minutes of the 2016 AGM. President’s report Dr Ruddiman stated he’d ... Doctors of BC will ensure adequate communication on this issue. There being no further questions, the motion to accept ... She proposed that an additional meeting be held in November because the first meeting will be largely devoted to ...
Obituaries / BY: Susan Bond January/February 2017
Dr Alan F. Bond died peacefully in his 91st year on 5 November 2016 in his hometown of Kimberley, BC. Alan’s only ambition ... with the College and was a real firebrand on the issue of medical ethics. The ideals of the Hippocratic oath ...
News May 2016
In the January/February 2016 issue [ BCMJ  2016;58:42 ], we included a photo of five ... the purchase agreement for the Doctors of BC building in November 1985. We were unable to identify three people in the ...
Blog / BY: Amanda Lavigne, BScPN
... 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 ... on the state of public health in Canada 2019. Accessed 15 November 2021. ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... as an important aspect of health education in schools. In 2016 the World Health Organization recognized the importance ... a medicine bottle. A recent Lancet editorial comments on a November 2022 WHO report on health literacy. The report calls ... reading ABC Life Literacy Canada. Health literacy still an issue in Canada. Accessed 4 January 2023. ...