Search

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 ...
Letters March 2009
... competency to drive the vehicle, and that such testing in people over the age of 75 would save lives [ BCMJ 2008;50:550 ... Superintendant of Motor Vehicles’ job is to assure that people are competent to drive. Doctors should not have to ...
Letters / BY: Lorne Brandt, MD, March 2009
... Mackie’s listed benefits to using public transit. Many people decline using public transit because of time, saying ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... effect. The placebo effect has been proven to make some people feel better, decreasing their anxiety, pain, and ...
Letters / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, April 2009
The Faculty of Medicine, now numbering 3600 people across the pro­vince, includes those who are ...
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 ...