How do Social Determinants of Health Affect Patient Wellness – Sarah Heath
How do Social Determinants of Health Affect Patient Wellness.Different social determinants of health affect patient wellness by limiting patient access to key health and lifestyle resources By Sara Heath – October 09, 2020 [Excerpts] The social determinants of health garnered a lot of attention once it became evident they can impact value-based care success. As […]
Citizen-Patient-Community Participation in Health Care Planning, Decision-Making, and Delivery through Rural Health Councils
Academic Position Statement BACKGROUND The importance of involving patients in health care activities is widely recognized and prioritized through British Columbia’s Patient-Centred Care Framework. This includes facilitating patient involvement in quality improvement and health care redesign. The disbandment of the hospital boards in the 2000s alongside further health care restructuring that resulted in the […]
FIRST NATIONS
February 2022
Some highlights: My Doctor Dumped Me. Here’s Why That’s So Common Fee-for-service model is deterring aspiring family doctors from setting up practice (Fee for Service not working) The Urgent Obligation to Stabilize Canada’s Health Care System – A path forward Four Ways to Fix Canada’s Long-Term Care System Two-Eyed Seeing: Current approaches, and discussion of […]
Local lack of doctors and walk-ins gets worse with View Royal clinic closure
View Royal’s Eagle Creek Medical walk-in announced it will be closing its doors on April 15, due to the departure of family doctors George Zabakolas and Chelsie Velikovsky. While the clinic says it has put out job postings for the vacant positions, they don’t expect them to be filled in time for the April 15 […]
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Bereavement Survey – BC Centre for Palliative Care – Survey runs until March 25 2022
New research study seeking participants for a survey study looking at bereavement experiences in British Columbia We are conducting a study looking at bereavement experiences and supports in British Columbia. The findings of the study will inform the development of priority actions and strategies to make effective supports accessible to more British Columbians with bereavement […]
Response to IH – January 24, 2022
Journal of Rural and Community Development – COVID-19 and Rural Canada
Vol. 16 No. 4 (2021): COVID-19 and Rural Canada: Rural Impacts and Resilience The COVID-19 Vulnerability Landscape: Susceptibility to COVID-19 Across Rural Versus Urban Health Regions of Canada Rural communities are often portrayed in the research literature and popular media as being disadvantaged and ‘vulnerable’. This paper examines the extent to which rural health regions […]
Two-Eyed Seeing: Current approaches, and discussion of medical applications
Issue: BCMJ, vol. 63 , No. 8 , October 2021 By: Tristan Jeffery, BScDonna L.M. Kurtz, RN, PhDCharlotte Ann Jones, PhD, MD, FRCPC ABSTRACT: Two-Eyed Seeing is an approach of inquiry and solutions in which people come together to view the world through an Indigenous lens with one eye (perspective), while the other eye sees through a […]