In January 2001, the CFPC Executive Committee recommended that a Task Force be established to examine the future of Family Medicine Research in Canada, in particular to define the roles and relationships of the CFPC (including its Chapters) and the University Departments of Family Medicine in relation to family medicine research.
2002
WHO and UNICEF jointly developed the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding to revitalize world attention to the impact that feeding practices have on the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children.
2003
Endorsed Practice Resource
Child & Adolescent Health Care,
Maternity & Newborn Care
This book offers busy clinicians practical, accessible, and evidence-based information to help in the care of gay and lesbian patients.
2003
Endorsed Practice Resource
This discussion paper has been written for family doctors, health professionals with whom they work, hospital administrators and managers, medical school leaders, the patients whom family doctors serve, and other public audiences interested in the value and importance of family doctors working in various health care environments.
2003
Hospitalists,
Health Care Delivery
The benefits of breastfeeding have been well documented. Recognizing that breastfeeding plays an uniquely important role in the healthy development of infants and young children, The College of Family Physicians of Canada endorses The WHO Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.
2004
Child & Adolescent Health Care
Canada is facing a crisis. Timely access to health care services is getting progressively worse for Canadians. The single biggest reason for this is a severe shortage of health professionals. High on the list of those in short supply are family doctors. More than 4 million Canadians cannot find family physicians.
2004
Neisseria meningitidis causes sporadic cases and outbreaks of meningococcal disease (invasive) in Canada at a rate of approximately one per 100,000 population per year with the greatest disease burden in children < 5 years of age. This Gram negative diplococcus is surrounded by a polysaccharide capsule, the chemical composition of which defines the serogroup of the organism.
2004
Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is the leading cause of invasive bacterial infections, bacterial pneumonia and acute otitis media in young children. In Canada, there are an estimated sixty-five (65) cases of meningitis, 700 cases of bacteremia, 2,200 cases of hospitalized pneumonia, 9,000 cases of non-hospitalized pneumonia and an average of fifteen (15) deaths per year due to S. pneumoniae in children < 5 years of age. NACI previously recommended 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (PPV23) for use in persons ≥ 2 years of age who are at high risk of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), but these vaccines are poorly immunogenic in younger children.
2004
The Statement was developed by a national coalition of organizations facilitated by the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). Based on an extensive review of research, the Joint Statement provides an overview of the developmental outcomes associated with the use of physical punishment.
2004
Child & Adolescent Health Care
This report presents education, funding and admissions process recommended strategies to increase the number of rural origin students in Canadian medical schools.
2004
Endorsed Document,
Education Document/Report
Rural Practice,
Medical Education