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January / February 2012

VOLUME 8-1

IN THIS ISSUE

Considering the Full Cost of Absence

Are PBMs Ahead or Behind Employers?

Targeting Drug Adherence

Evolving to a Healthy Organization

Advertising Junk Food to Kids

Fall 2011

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Dr. D. Scott Ernst, MD, FRCPC - Doctor On Call
Dr. Ernst’s clinical interest has been genito-urinal malignancies and melanoma. His research has focused on new drug development and bone metastases. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and is founding co-chair for the Canadian Melanoma Conference.

Employers and Elections - Editorial
Canadians in four provinces and one territory face elections in October. While voting is an act of citizenship for individuals, many organizations seek to understand and sometimes influence issues that are important to them as well. But for most employers, health hardly ever makes the A-list of mission-critical policy and program issues. Organizations might need to get more political and more strategic about their very large role in our health care system.

Interview with Ross Clark, BA, CA, MTS, ICD.D. - View from the Top
L.V. Lomas is a distributor of industrial and fine chemicals. They have 216 employees located in four locations around Toronto, and additional sites in Vancouver and Montreal. Sales totaled $250 million in their latest fiscal year. Generating a profit every year since they were founded in 1961, the company has a long history of building and supporting a strong workplace culture and has been recognized in each of the past three years as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces.

The Skinny on Skin Cancer - Disease Management
Probably because of our cooler and often cloudier climate - especially on weekends! - Canadians don’t pay as much attention to skin cancers as we should. But skin cancer accounts for about half of all cancer diagnoses. Most are relatively benign and can be easily treated with surgery, but some can progress to become dangerous. The most lethal form is melanoma, which accounts for about 4% of all skin cancers, but almost 80% of all deaths. Melanoma is a cancer of younger people and can start in childhood and adolescence. UV rays from the sun or artificial light sources can also cause eye problems such as cataracts. The number of melanoma cases is increasing and this is expected to continue over the next twenty years.

Two sides of the same coin - Bottom Line
Grant Thornton LLP has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work Institute for the past four years. Focused on being a bold and positive leader in its chosen markets, the accounting and advisory firm is committed to its core values of collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect and responsibility. Clients say they do business with Grant Thornton because of the quality of its people. Investing in those people and creating a great workplace culture – even through tough economic times – delivers bottom line results.

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