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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 ... was over 2 times higher than among other residents in 2017/18.[ 1 ] Lack of attachment to primary care could ... 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 ... Systems Research and the BC Ministry of Health summit in 2017.[ 22-24 ] The video and guide are also now integrated ... 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, clinicians, ...
Premise / BY: James M. Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC April 2019
The November 2018 issue of the BCMJ included two articles about ... would like to respond to the information provided in that issue by clarifying our organization’s goals and processes ... or progression or albuminuria.”[ 3 ] Similarly, the 2017 meta-analysis cited by Dr Clement and colleagues did not ...
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 ... Transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Accessed 1 April 2017. ... Plan. Building a heart healthy Canada, 2009. Accessed 1 November 2016. ...
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 ... with the College and was a real firebrand on the issue of medical ethics. The ideals of the Hippocratic oath ... will hold a memorial gathering in his honor on 8 April 2017 at the Kimberley Elks Club. Donations in his memory may ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2017
3 June 2017, Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, BC To kick off the ... 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 ...
... elsewhere. Several times a year, the BCMJ presents a theme issue devoted to a particular discipline or disease entity. ... and Thrombosis. Philadelphia, PA: JB Lippincott Co; 2017. pp. 1367-1372.  Health Canada. Canadian STD ... H.E. Marmon, director, BC Centre for Disease Control, 12 November 2021). Material submitted for publication but not ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... a medicine bottle. A recent Lancet editorial comments on a November 2022 WHO report on health literacy. The report calls ... making sensible, healthy decisions more difficult.  In 2017, the Health System Improvement Unit at Deakin ... reading ABC Life Literacy Canada. Health literacy still an issue in Canada. Accessed 4 January 2023. ...