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Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... work days lost and 50,000 hospitalizations. More than 1200 people in BC die each year from pneumonia and influenza--a ... occur in the elderly, yet fewer than half of elderly people avail themselves of a free vaccine that is up to 80% ... of 1918-19. This pandemic killed 40 million to 50 million people worldwide; the often-quoted figure of 20 million ...
Editorials / BY: Ralph Klein, MLA, Premier of Alberta June 2000
... Association for a century of dedicated service to the people of your province. In BC, in my home province of ... health system and is working hard to ensure it serves people as well in the new century as it did in the previous ... at ways to make the system better—to help it serve people better. We believe that the foundation of the ...
Editorials / BY: Lorraine Gillespie, RN June 2000
... determinants of health—factors that determine why some people are healthy and others are not. Improvement of primary ... system bringing health care as close as possible to where people live and work, and constitutes the first element of a ... health professionals to provide telephone support to help people make decisions regarding their health care and to ...
Editorials / BY: David Doty, MD June 2000
... during the Dirty Thirties and the Second World War. These people, our parents, recognized that medical care must be ...
Editorials / BY: Bill Cavers, MD June 2000
... expense, plus the increase in the total number of older people will dramatically impact total health-care costs. ... our jobs in a system that promises all things to all people, refuses to adequately fund the needs of these people, and yet legislates against the provisal of any other ...