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Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP
January/February 2009
... by a country hosting the Olympics may have an impact on people already active in a sport that does well, but activity ... Community designation, through which groups of active people seek to promote physical activity in their communities ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Ken Cooper, CPHIC
March 2009
... direct contact exposures, RPEP should also be offered to people awakening to find a bat in their bedroom, even if ... ] The incidence of rabies preventable by providing RPEP to people with unrecognized exposure in the bedroom is thus ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC
March 2009
... is a hands-free or handheld model.[ 3 , 5,6 ] When people have cellphone conversations, they are required to ... we are not aware this is occurring. Large numbers of people use cellphones while driving and the numbers continue ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP,
April 2009
... to acknowledge the leadership and support of the following people, who all ensured the successful completion of this ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC
April 2009
... systems, at a frequency increasing with the number of people served.[ 3 ] Water systems are inspected and operators ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD,
May 2009
... the number of cases was already declining as a result of people leaving the area, Snow managed to reduce the number ... had numerous such organisms in their stools and healthy people did not. He described a “comma-shaped bacillus” ... But these factors are a gigantic challenge for millions of people living in poverty around the world. Thousands of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
May 2009
... the 1990s, crack cocaine has become more prevalent in BC. People who smoke crack may develop oral lesions and burns ... pipes, and HCV has been detected on crack paraphernalia. People who share crack pipes may therefore be at increased ... has hardened on the inside pipe wall. It was reported that people were using the plunger of syringes as push sticks, ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Wilma Arruda, MD,
May 2009
... me and I see new and expensive houses and cars. Many people I know are going on a winter holiday and yet, as a ... of the lives and well-being of children and young people in 21 nations of the industrialized world.[ 1 ] More ... to an economic argument: better health enables more people to participate in the economy, reducing the costs of ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Greg Dines,
May 2009
... this June. “Family physicians treat the vast majority of people who have mental health issues, and these issues are ...