The Centre for Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing, in conjunction with our campus partners, offers a variety of health screenings and clinics throughout the year to identify and mitigate your risk and protect your health and wellbeing.
Heart Health
Cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) is a leading cause of death for Canadian men and women, so it is important to understand your risk factors and key prevention strategies. This health screening is offered twice a year.
As part of this free heart health screening, participants will receive the following confidential services:
- Blood pressure measurements
- Body Mass Index (BMI- height and weight) and waist measurement
- Cholesterol measurement (a small finger prick)
- Calculation of heart disease risk (Framingham Score)
- Counseling and Interpretation of results
- Recommendations to optimize your heart health
Total Appointment Time: 15 – 20 minutes
Services provided by licensed pharmacists and pharmacy students from the Pharmacist Clinic – UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Mammography Screening
Risk Management Services has been proud to partner with the BC Cancer Agency Screening Mammography Program (SMP) Mobile Services since 2007 to provide on-campus access to FREE screening mammograms to women ages 40 to 79 at The Centre for Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing annually in November.
Benefits of Regular Screening Mammograms
- Regular screening mammograms can find breast cancer early, usually before it has spread.
- Being an aging woman is the strongest risk factor for breast cancer.
- About one in nine women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. One in 28 women is expected to die from the disease.
- A visit takes about 15 minutes and you do not need a doctor’s referral.
For more information or to register, visit http://www.screeningbc.ca/breast or call 604.877.6232.
Physical Fitness Assessment & Personalize Training Program
If you are just getting started, needing guidance or just an update to your current routine, this program is sure to provide you with what you need to get your started. This program will provide you with a Certified Personal Trainer who will assess your current fitness level with a standardize protocol and create an exercise program best suited to your health and wellbeing goals.
Functional Movement Screen
The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a tool used by physicians, physiotherapists, personal trainers and other health care professionals to analyze fundamental movement patterns.
The screen tests 7 movement patterns that will measure the performance of basic loco motor, manipulative and stabilizing movements. By placing an individual in extreme positions where weaknesses and imbalances are more noticeable, health professionals can distinguish what treatment is most appropriate.
At the end of the FMS you will:
- be educated on the results of the screen
- Prescribed basic exercise techniques
- Be given and area to focus improving
The FMS is a tool that has been used on everyone from the working class to high performance athletes. This tool can be used in injury prevention, rehabilitation and strength environments.
FMS are booked by appointment only. To learn more about the screen please visit http://www.functionalmovement.com/site/aboutfms.