"British Columbia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)
| Descriptor ID |
D001955
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567.176.160
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "British Columbia" by people in Profiles.
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A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk Factors and Experiences of Health Care Workers Tested for the Novel Coronavirus in Canada. J Occup Environ Med. 2022 09 01; 64(9):e559-e566.
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Sexual HIV risk among gay, bisexual and queer transgender men: findings from interviews in Vancouver, Canada. Cult Health Sex. 2017 Nov; 19(11):1197-1209.
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Changes in mortality rates and causes of death in a population-based cohort of persons living with and without HIV from 1996 to 2012. BMC Infect Dis. 2017 02 27; 17(1):174.
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Cohort Profile: HAART Observational Medical Evaluation and Research (HOMER) cohort. Int J Epidemiol. 2015 Feb; 44(1):58-67.