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Register Today for the 2023 WSKW Conference – PHE America

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The Fall 2023 Annual Conference for the Western Society for Kinesiology & Wellness (WSKW) will be on Thursday, October 5th – Friday, October 6th in Oakland, CA.

If you haven’t registered yet, don’t delay — register TODAY!

Conference Registration:

  • Faculty: $150
  • Students: $50

Select HERE for payment information and Paypal access

The 2023 program will include presentations from across the breadth of kinesiology and will provide opportunities to engage and learn with colleagues. The conference will incorporate poster presentations, oral presentations, round table discussions, and panel presentations.

Conference Notes:

  • This year’s conference theme is: The Future Is You
  • The conference
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Braid: Smith’s health-care guarantee subverts her basic convictions

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Premier Danielle Smith needs Albertans to believe she didn’t mean many things she said in the past. Her voluble history is a serious danger to the UCP in the coming election campaign.

The question will be whether voters believe what she says now, or what she said before. It’s a toss-up, frankly, because she was so specific and passionate about her earlier prescription for user-pay health care.

On Tuesday, the premier said: “The UCP is committed to all Albertans that under no circumstances will any Albertan ever have to pay out of pocket for access to

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Moncton mobile health unit brings care to the homeless

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Hoping to meet the rising demand, outreach programs in the Moncton area are expanding outside of the clinic walls to help reach clients where they are.

The idea took off during the pandemic when health-care professionals realized how challenging it would be for people living rough or homeless to receive care.

“It could be on the side of the street. It could be in shelters,” said nurse practitioner France Maillet-Gagnon. “So it’s really connecting with the services they are already going to sometimes.”

The Salvus Clinic, a not-for-profit organization, has been providing shelter services for three years. However, a new

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Orillia doc, OMA president concerned about the future of health care

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‘I have never seen our health-care system in a state like this,’ said Orillia-based doctor who is wrapping up one-year terms as OMA president

With her term as the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) president winding down, Rose Zacharias has been traveling Ontario to speak with her peers about cracks in the province’s health-care system.

The Orillia-based physician has served as OMA president for the past year, advocating on behalf of Ontario physicians, residents, and the health-care system, and in recent weeks she has traveled to Queen’s Park, Sudbury, Ottawa, Hamilton, and elsewhere to learn from fellow doctors and meet with

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Racism a major barrier for health care recruitment in Canada, report finds – National

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More Indigenous practitioners are needed to address systemic racism, but that can’t happen without a supportive education system that also envisions them in leadership roles, says a commission report by Health Canada and touted as the first comprehensive review of the health-care workforce.

The report, released Tuesday by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), includes an assessment of 5,000 studies done over the last decade on various issues, such as the retention of nurses and doctors and the impact of technology. Some of the research was from countries with similar care models, including Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany.

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Lack of family doctors leads to pain, frustration for patients in Steinbach area

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Samantha Farrell says the emergency department in Steinbach has effectively become her doctor’s office.

Without a family doctor or the means to travel to Winnipeg, she only gets medical care when she cannot wait any longer.

Since losing her family doctor in 2020, Farrell has gone to the ER in the southeastern Manitoba city three times to cope with ovarian cyst pain, including last month, when a cyst ruptured.

“It really shouldn’t be that way,” she said. “I mean, Steinbach’s considered a city — why don’t we have a doctor, or many?”

There are about 10 physician vacancies in the

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Other programs can help uninsured, the Ontario health minister says as coverage to end

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TORONTO — The decision to end funding for a program that provides care for patients without health insurance will not be reversed, Ontario’s health minister said Monday as she defended the move that’s come under fire from the province’s doctors.

Sylvia Jones said uninsured patients can still receive health care through other programs after the Physician and Hospital Services for Uninsured Persons Program ends this Friday.

“There’s no change in the way that uninsured persons will receive care in the province of Ontario, the only change is how hospitals, community health, and midwifery centers will be reimbursed for ensuring and

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