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(Pearson; now University of Toronto Press, 2005)The chapter examines the health care beliefs of major religious groupings in Canada which are centred around existential issues (birth, procreation, maturation, death). The many ways in which these may come into conflict ...
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(Springer Science, 2004)The NW Coast of N America experienced multiple waves of infection and severe population loss which impacted social structure, and the retention of knowledge by survivors of the epidemics. This chapter traces the impact ...
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(University Press of America, 1990)
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(2010-02-04)The rapid growth in the numbers of medications used by people as they age have increased the risk of lethal adverse reactions (ADRs). These may occur between drugs, with over-the-counter medications and foods. ADRs have ...
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(Department of Geography, University of Victoria, 2009)This book looks at the full sample of the 2007/2008 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 4.1 which combines the two half samples of CCHS 4.1 as it relates to the Health Service Delivery Areas of British Columbia and to ...
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(Department of Geography, University of Victoria, 2009)This book was conceived to demonstrate the use of the 2007 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 4.1 by comparing wellness and well-being factors among Canada's provinces and territories. Another key focus is the ...
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(Department of Geography, University of Victoria, 2008)This Supplement provides a further, more in depth look at the geographic variations in the wellness of seniors (those aged 65 or over) in British Columbia.
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(Western Geographical Press, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, 2007)The BC Atlas of Wellness follows a distinguished tradition in health-related mapping to show variations and inequities in various wellness-related indicators. Topics included in the Atlas cover traditional indicators ...
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(2010-07-09)This report was drafted initially in 2007 as an internal background paper to support The BC Atlas of Wellness by collecting and reviewing the literature related to defining wellness.
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(Edwin Mellen Press, 2010-12-01)The globalization of pandemic disease requires a widespread response in terms of public health care ethics, especially regarding the issues which surround containment measures and their inequitable imposition.
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(Western Geographical Press, 2011)http://www.geog.uvic.ca/wellness/wellness2011/index.html
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(BMC Ecology, 2002-03-19)Background Bi-directional flow of nutrients between marine and terrestrial ecosystems can provide essential resources that structure communities in transitional habitats. On the Pacific coast of North America, anadromous ...
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Nitrogen uptake in riparian plant communities across a sharp ecological boundary of salmon density (BMC Ecology, 2003-05)Background Recent studies of anadromous salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) on the Pacific Coast of North America indicate an important and previously unrecognized role of salmonid nutrients to terrestrial biota. However, the ...
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(University of Victoria, 2013)Presented here are 5 series of restoration walks, initially offered by the Restoration of Natural Systems Program of the University of Victoria, as well as one contributed walk. Demand for the walks was far greater than ...
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Residence, income and cancer hospitalizations in British Columbia during a decade of policy change (BioMed Central - International Journal for Equity in Health, 2004-04-15)Background Through the 1990s, governments across Canada shifted health care funding allocation and organizational foci toward a community-based population health model. Major concerns of reform based on this model include ...
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(Society for the Study of Addiction, 2013-06)
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(Elsevier Ltd., 2013-05)Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of administrative sanctions introduced as part of a new law for drinking drivers in British Columbia, Canada. The new law, known as immediate roadside ...
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(American Journal of Public Health, 2013-04)Objectives. We investigated whether periodic increases in minimum alcohol prices were associated with reduced alcohol-attributable hospital admissions in British Columbia. Methods. The longitudinal panel study (2002–2009) ...
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(American Journal of Public Health, 2012-10)Objectives. We report impacts on alcohol consumption following new and increased minimum alcohol prices in Saskatchewan, Canada. Methods. We conducted autoregressive integrated moving average time series analyses of ...
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(BioMed Central, 2013-03-11)Background: Ensuring access to timely and appropriate primary healthcare for people living in poverty is an issue facing all countries, even those with universal healthcare systems. The transformation of healthcare ...
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