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My Health My Community Survey – Field Outreach Representatives
My Health My Community (MHMC) is a partnership project between Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Fraser Health (FH) and the eHealth Strategy Office. My Health My Community (MHMC) aims to develop an interactive web‐based health and wellness survey to collect data on health, lifestyle, environment, and community characteristics. Using online resources to engage community members, participants [...]
Men’s Depression Help Yourself Website Launch
eHealth Strategy Office partners with School of Nursing to raise awareness around men’s mental health using online technologies
iCON at the Vaisakhi Parade
We were delighted to celebrate the 13th Annual Surrey Khalsa Vaisakhi Parade in Surrey with an estimated 150,000 people. The sun was shining and the crowds were buzzing. Thank you to the iCON team and to everyone who came by our resource booth to say hello and to pick up some great health resources on the management and prevention of [...]
iCON Hosts Interactive Healthy Lifestyle Changes Workshop in Richmond
iCON hosted the first skills-focused healthy living workshop for the Chinese speaking community in partnership with the Richmond Public Library this past March. The workshop hosted thirty participants in an intimate setting that facilitated hands-on activities and skill demonstrations by health experts. Conducted in Cantonese, the 3.5-hour workshop was designed to build patient capacity in [...]
Telehealth for Mental Health and Substance Use: A Literature Review
Learn more about the current body of evidence in this area.
Bring In The New Year – Sikh Style with iCON
Come and celebrate the Sikh New Year this Saturday at the Surrey Vaisakhi Parade Look for iCON’s booth along the parade route outside Faredeal Furniture, Unit 101, 8173, 128th Street (opposite Bollywood Banquet Halls). iCON will be handing out a variety of great health resources on the management and prevention of chronic disease. Already considered [...]
April 4th Evidence 2 Excellence Webinar – Mitigating Emergency Department Overcrowding
Evidence 2 Excellence and WEDOC present: Mitigating Emergency Department Overcrowding: A Tale of Three Interventions Speaker: Dr. Brian Rowe (Associate Dean, Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta) Date/Time: Thursday, April 4th; noon – 1:00 PM PST Evidence to Excellence & WEDOC, in partnership with the UBC Faculty of Medicine eHealth Strategy [...]
