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Quality and safety in patient care requires managers and clinicians who are equipped to lead organizational efforts.

Modern managers need to understand the government-business relationship in order to help their organizations anticipate and react to government interventions.

Health care professionals and administrators alike benefit from an understanding of the Canadian legal system as it relates to clinical practice and policy making.

A basic understanding of balance sheets and budgets are a must for managers to fully consider the impacts of their decisions.

Leadership requires having an appreciation and greater understanding of different leadership styles, tools and approaches to be successful in today’s complex health care environment.

Statistics is the subject that allows us to explore any topic with a quantitative glee, and health care is no exception.

More and more healthcare organizations are relying on the expertise of individuals trained in health informatics

The capacity to implement health care services relies on people working together for patients, making human resources strategies a key management concept.

Being a leader requires knowing how to apply specific tools, criteria and strategies to set priorities and make decisions about needs, problems and goals.

Economic evaluation of health interventions provides a powerful tool to address questions on cost effectiveness.

Paul wishes to continually improve his abilities to work collaboratively with the numerous players that comprise the increasingly complex Canadian healthcare system.

Providing HIV care at local health clinics in South Africa has led to a massive increase in the number of people there receiving vital treatment. Photo credit: Angeli Rawat

Dr. Werb was also one of six researchers recently named an inaugural recipient of the Avenir Award, a prestigious US$1.5 million research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Strategies to support healthier diets among seniors need to take into account differences between elderly men and women, according to UBC research. Credit: Lucas Richter/Flickr

Misdiagnosis and misinformation about Lyme disease can be a problem, says Dr. David Patrick.
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Dr. Chris Richardson describes how online health messages can be more effective when communicating with young people.

The study examined more than 42,000 hospitalization records of patients 60 years and older, who had been discharged after admission for hip fracture surgery between 1990 and 2005 in British Columbia, Canada.

New research from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study shows that exposure to outdoor air pollution during the first year of life increases the risk of developing allergies to food, mould, pets and pests.

Dr. Mitton is a professor and Director of the UBC Master of Health Administration (MHA) program. In 2012 he received SPPH’s CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Women who had a parent who attended a residential school were 2.35 times more likely to be sexually assaulted.

Dr. Teschke looked at cycling crash circumstances and injury severity, based on data from Vancouver and Toronto. Photo: John Luton / Flickr

The MDI is a unique tool that not only gives children a voice, it gives adults insight into areas that have great significance in children’s lives but are not typically evaluated by other forms of assessments.