Integrating food security into public health and provincial government departments in British Columbia, Canada

Income inequality and health. Coastal communities in British Columbia, Canada.

OBJECTIVE An imbalance in the distribution of economic resources, i.e., income inequality, is a characteristic of a community that may influence the aggregate health of the population. In North America, income inequality seems to be strongly related to mortality rates among American communities such as states and metropolitan areas but largely irrelevant for health at similar levels of geopolit...

Patient perspectives of methadone formulation change in British Columbia, Canada: outcomes of a provincial survey

BACKGROUND In British Columbia, Canada, methadone maintenance treatment formulation transitioned from the oral liquid compound Tang™-flavoured methadone to the ten-times more concentrated cherry-flavoured Methadose™ in February 2014. We quantitatively describe perceptions and reported consequences among a sample of patients on methadone maintenance treatment following this transition. METHODS...

Wolf Control in British Columbia, Canada

The uses of provincial administrative health databases for research on palliative care: Insights from British Columbia, Canada

BACKGROUND: Research indicating that people increasingly prefer to die at home suggests that palliative care is likely to play a more prominent role in the future of Canada's health care system. Unfortunately, at a time when research evidence should be informing policy and service delivery, little is known about health service utilization by Canadians at the end of life. One existing mechanism ...

Integrating e-government public transactional services into public authority workflows

Documents submitted by citizens through electronic services, deployed in the context of e-government, must usually undergo processing by some organisational information system in order to complete the citizens’ requests and for the reply to be returned to the citizen. The integration, however, of the e-service delivery platform and the organisational information system is often hindered for a n...