Reminder: The extended deadline for submissions of oral presentations is 28th February and for posters is 31st March, 2016. The 4th Annual Weight Stigma Conference will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada April 29 and 30, 2016. For more information about this conference please see: http://stigmaconference.com/abstract-submission/

Registration is now available: https://ubc.eventsair.com/in9543/registration/Site/Register Course Description Diabetes is an emerging epidemic. No matter what area of healthcare you work in, you will encounter people affected by diabetes. New approaches to diabetes management are continuously appearing. This comprehensive course is for health professionals from a variety of disciplines who face diabetes in practice. The goal...

Children and young people (ages: 7-18) have need support in staying healthy. This is especially true when it comes to how they understand health information and when they think about what it means to be “healthy”. We call this their “health literacy”. Health literacy means their ability to understand and use information about their health....