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Between November 2018 and January 2019, five Members of the Board of the SS Community Health Society conducted semi-structured interviews with 28 residents of SSI selected because they are well connected within the community and were felt to have a pulse on health and wellness issues on the island. The interviews ranged …

This is the first of a series of columns about health. But even though I trained as a physician, I will not be writing much about health care, because the evidence suggests that it is not all that important as a determinant of our overall health, compared to broader environmental, social, economic and behavioural factors…

A recent Times Colonist editorial on the importance of prevention in improving health and reducing health care costs is on target (“Prevention key to health costs,” Nov. 9). But in focusing on prevention in primary care, its prescription did not go far enough …

Difficult times lie ahead for our health-care system. Every province but one is either planning to reduce health funding or has already done so. (Nova Scotia is the exception.)According to a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information …

Last week, in response to a commentary by Leah Hollins, the chair of the board of Island Health (“Health care means more than hospitals,” Jan. 2), I looked at the first of two “taps” that have to be turned off if we are to reduce the size and cost of our health-care system: Reducing the…

A pilot project in Vancouver is being expanded across British Columbia after more than double the number of drug-addicted people stayed in treatment to prevent them from fatally overdosing.The initiative led by the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Vancouver Coastal Health uses the same strategy that helped drive down the province’s HIV and…

Esquimalt is far from alone in dealing with a critical shortage of family doctors, says the president of Doctors of B.C.Dr. Eric Cadesky said communities across the province are struggling with issues similar to those highlighted by Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins, who says her community is facing a “medical crisis” …

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins says a doctor shortage in her township and neighbouring Vic West constitutes a medical “crisis” that requires urgent attention …

“I’m at a loss to understand why we would be seeing these decreases in clients and numbers of hours in a health authority where the senior population is growing,” said B.C. seniors advocate Isobel Mackenzie …

In my response I wrote that: “In focusing on prevention in primary care, its prescription did not go far enough.” Fast forward four years to a commentary from Leah Hollins, chair of the board of Island Health …