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Information - The Bone and Joint Decade Nears the Half Way Mark |
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The Bone and Joint Decade Nears the Half Way Mark
James P. Waddell, MD, FRCSC
Coordinator, Canadian National Action Network
For the Bone and Joint Decade
Toronto, ON
We are now moving up to the five year mark of the Bone and Joint Decade. We are fortunate that Canada will be able to host the Bone and Joint Decade Conference in 2005 – marking the half way point of the Decade. The decision has been made to now hold this meeting in the last week of October. The venue has changed from Toronto to Ottawa in order to allow more participation by a wider variety of individuals.
ACAP (Alliance for Canadian Arthritis Programme) is holding a Standards of Care Conference which will involve members of all disciplines involved in delivering musculoskeletal care; they are going to partner with the Bone and Joint Decade International Steering Committee (ISC) and coordinators from National Action Networks from around the world to work on standards of care for a number of conditions in countries outside of Canada.
We will be requesting participation in this meeting from individual members of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association (COA) with expertise in different aspects of health care delivery both at home and abroad.
The 2004 Bone and Joint Decade ISC meeting was recently held in Beijing. At that time, it was felt that the first four years of the Decade had been spent providing necessary information to governments, third party payers and health policy makers regarding the importance of musculoskeletal health. It was the conclusion of the ISC and those National Action Network Coordinators participating in this meeting, that this period of education had fulfilled its objective and now it was time to move ahead with implementation of an action plan to bring about fundamental changes in the delivery of musculoskeletal care.
The challenge to such delivery is related to the widely differing health care structures and financial situations of the countries participating in the Bone and Joint Decade. The challenge for us at the 2005 meeting in Ottawa will be to develop standards of care for a number of common musculoskeletal conditions or injuries which are applicable to all countries.
We are excited about the upcoming meeting as we feel that this event will in fact be the start of that half of the Decade which will see a number of changes taking place in every aspect of musculoskeletal health.
You can read more about this on the Bone and Joint Decade Canada web site (http://www.bjdcanada.org) or in our most recent newsletter.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 March 2007 )
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