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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Henry Lau, RD January/February 2020
... food choices As the common first point of contact for people accessing the health care system, physicians play an ... approach to addressing food insecurity is to refer people to charitable food outlets such as food banks; ... a number of systems-level changes to support Indigenous people’s access to both healthy food and their traditional ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP March 2020
... of sea level rise, disrupting health services not only for people living near the ocean but those across the province ... Vancouver, which together serve a population of 300 000 people, are vulnerable to a 1-in-500-year storm surge even at ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Alexis Crabtree, MD, MPH, PhD April 2020
... those with a diagnosed illness, the majority (over 80%) of people have mild illness with recovery in about 2 weeks. ... on cruise ships suggested that a substantial proportion of people with infection are asymptomatic. Children and ... increase, as we shift from containment to mitigation. People with mild symptoms consistent with COVID-19 (or with ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... reported in BC.[ 1 ] COVID-19 disproportionately affects people who use substances, including risk of transmission, ... (SARS-CoV-2) infection, and drug overdose risk. How are people who use substances impacted by COVID-19? People who use substances are often socioeconomically ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Michael Otterstatter, MSc, PhD October 2020
... in a population, scientists track over time how many other people are likely to become infected from a single case. This ... each person with COVID-19 was infecting nearly three other people. Through the spring, BC reduced that number down to ... plays a key role in disease control by quickly identifying people who may have been exposed to the virus. These people ...