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Manitoba family moving to BC for better health care

sarah14/01/2023 66 Views

A Winnipeg family frustrated over the state of health care in Manitoba is moving to BC in search of better care.

The family’s journey in the health care system started when 56-year-old Devina Gracia Perez needed brain surgery last May. A high risk for the surgery, she had a stroke partially paralyzing her left side and right eye.

A few days later, she was sent from the Health Sciences Center (HSC) to Concordia Hospital for rehab.

Her husband, Donald Perez, wasn’t allowed to be with her due to a COVID-19 outbreak at the hospital but said he noticed she was

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Health Care

Protecting Athlete Wellness in the Hyper-Competitive World of Sports – PHE America

sarah13/01/2023 19 Views

Sport is captivating. Engaging in it elicits strong emotions for many people, like passion, excitement, and love. Sport is so central to many people’s lives that it impacts the choices participants and spectators make about how they live. For example, practice and game schedules often determine how one’s days, weeks, and even vacations are planned. In addition, the great value is placed on the role of sport in our lives. Sport is argued to be a place where people can learn and practice socially valued behaviors such as teamwork, perseverance and hard work; all characteristics are also used to describe

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Health Care

Should You Invest in the Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF (PSCH)?

sarah13/01/2023 19 Views

Looking for broad exposure to the Healthcare – Broad segment of the equity market? You should consider the Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF (PSCH), a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on 04/07/2010.

Retail and institutional investors are increasingly turning to passively managed ETFs because they offer low costs, transparency, flexibility, and tax efficiency; these kinds of funds are also excellent vehicles for long term investors.

Investor-friendly, sector ETFs provide many options to gain low risk and diversify exposure to a broad group of companies in particular sectors. Healthcare – Broad is one of the 16 broad Zacks sectors

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Health Care

A Practical Approach to Confidence – PHE America

sarah10/01/2023 53 Views

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When I study confidence, I always come away with two distinct themes and one troubling thought. First, it is obvious that confidence is important, so important that even when we are tricked into making it, we perform better (Vealey & Chase, 2008). Second, it is almost always described as a feeling (Burton & Raedeke, 2008; Vealey & Chase, 2008; Zinsser, Bunker, & Williams, 2010). The part that always troubled me was why we would leave something so important up to how we feel about it. After all, the only time confidence matters is when it is tested

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Health Care

Premiers talk health, cost of living in New Year’s messages

sarah08/01/2023 22 Views

VANCOUVER –

Premiers across the country used their New Year’s messages to emphasize everything from housing and affordability to healthy lifestyles.

In his first New Year’s message as premier of British Columbia, David Eby says he’s honored to celebrate the successes of 2022 “including the remarkable economic recovery in our province as we came out of the pandemic.” But he acknowledged the challenges related to housing, health care and the cost of living.

He says 2023 will include steps towards building a province where people can afford a good home, feel safe and get access to a family doctor.

Alberta’s

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