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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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2000
... rates increase sharply in communities with fewer than 7000 people. A recent decrease in absolute numbers of rural ... Columbia—too few physicians serving relatively too many people. Inability to attract physicians to rural communities ... consists of communities that had less than 30000 people, at least one physician, and have either a hospital or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terry Curran, MD, FRCP October 2000
... the reins, the next option is the stockbroker. To many people’s surprise, the stockbroker is one of the most ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Steve Adilman, MD November 2000
... improve access to medical services for urban First Nations people. It is a non-profit, provincially funded health centre ... elderly men, immigrants, troubled youth, and Aboriginal people. The community is experiencing epidemics of HIV/AIDS, ... social work, and advocacy for hundreds of HIV-positive people. Individuals are encouraged to attend the drop-in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2000
... directory data, that communities with fewer than 7000 people have the lowest year-to-year physician retention rates ... studied were communities that had fewer than 30,000 people and had either a hospital or diagnostic-and-treatment ... this reflects the fact that looking after Aboriginal people is more stressful than looking after non-native ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Gregory Hislop, MDCM December 2000
... 100 000) have been reported approaching 20 for Chinese people in Hong Kong and Singapore and 12.3 for Chinese people in Los Angeles as compared to 7.2 for non-Hispanic white people in Los Angeles.[ 3 ] Asian-born US Chinese people have ...
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