OBJECTIVE This study explores the contribution of deprivation, immigration and Aboriginal status to survival in various parts of Canada. It is hypothesized that differences in the magnitude of survival inequalities according to deprivation across Canada are attenuated when immigration and Aboriginal status are accounted for. METHODS The study is based on a file linking the 1991 census and a f...

Based on data from a national residential radon survey performed in 18 cities in Canada in the 1970s, an annual effective dose to the Canadian population due to indoor radon exposure was estimated at 0.71 mSv. An updated estimate of radon exposure in Canada has been made using additional indoor radon data from recent surveys in Ontario and Nova Scotia, and in 28 communities of British Columbia ...

         According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mercury is among one of ten substances that represent a significant health problem. Contamination environment with and its compounds possible through natural artificial ways from ill-conceived or deliberate actions. These include human consumption mercury-contaminated seafood fumes released during...

(1) Rhabdoderma elegans (Newberry, 1856) (‘Coelacanthus watsoni’) from the ‘Namurian’ to ‘Westphalian C’ of the Ruhr Region (Aldinger 1931; Keller 1934; Forey 1981) and from the ‘Namurian A (E1)’ of Rosenhof near Niederhemer, northern Rhenish Mountains, Germany (Horn 1960, pl. 5, fig. 4). This taxon was also documented in the ‘Namurian’ to ‘Westphalian C’ of the British Isles, northern France, ...

We compared travel histories of case-patients with Cryptococcus gattii infection during 1999-2006 to travel destinations of the general public on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Findings validated and refined estimates of risk on the basis of place of residence and showed no spatial progression of risk areas on this island over time.

This paper presents findings from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) prison study - an experimental case study that examined the consequences of randomly dividing men into groups of prisoners and guards within a specially constructed institution over a period of 8 days. Unlike the prisoners, the guards failed to identify with their role. This made the guards reluctant to impose their au...

Balsamorhiza sagittata, a species of ethnopharmacological interest in British Columbia, is reported to have antibacterial and antifungal properties. An antibacterial compound isolated from this species was identified as 7,10-epithio-7,9-tridecadiene-3,5,11-triyne-1,2-diol based on the HMQC and HMBC experiments.

Center for Healthcare Studies, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Transplant Outcomes Research Collaborative (NUTORC), Medical Humanities & Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL University of British Columbia, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Corresponding author: John S. Gill, jgi...

Cryptococcus gattii, emergent on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC), Canada, in 1999, was detected during 2003-2005 in 3 persons and 8 animals that did not travel to Vancouver Island during the incubation period; positive environmental samples were detected in areas outside Vancouver Island. All clinical and environmental isolates found in BC were genotypically consistent with Vancouver Is...