DrP needed to take a short break. Please be kind enough to fill out the survey
on the future of the website. The
uinderwhelming response to date speaks loudly.
Summertime tends to be when either nothing happens, or
important but potentially politically embarrassing information is discretely posted
without fanfare in the hopes it flies under the radar. Be sure to send any tidbits to drphealth@gmail.com
A few quickies to get back on track:
With heat waves hitting, it is the earlier in the year heat
that is most fatal as we struggle to acclimatize to the ever changing heat environment. Heat kills up to 1000 Canadians each year –
check out Weather
that kills
Apparently a slight budget on the refugee health issue, but
realistically a political clarification.
Why would the government not provide health care to those that it
sponsors? Kudos to all the health care
professionals that have and continue to apply the heat, this is one of Canada’s
most disgraceful civil society moments.
Posting from
Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care
Parenting programs
continue to garner considerable interest, with a good review on the impact on
psychosocial wellbeing of parents to be found at Review article on
psychosocial health of parents in parenting programs
How little we really know about preventing outdoor injuries
to children comes across in this review Injury prevention for
children. It is one of those areas
that there is a sense that we have to do something – but little sense of what
is effective.
Colorectal cancers area
leading cause of both incident cancers and mortality. The fecal occult blood test has had lots of
proponents and opponents, but this review notes a 25% reduction in colorectal
cancer mortality from its use. Colorectal cancer
screening. Now that’s something we
all should get behind.
Expect postings over teh summer to be somewhat less
frequent. Ideas, suggestions and
submissions are ever welcomed drphealth@gmail.com
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