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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...