Every year more than 350,000 women in the UK may be missing out on key formal health and wellbeing check-ups following the birth of a child, reveals the largest study of its kind, published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Nov 23, 2020
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Many children are now enrolled in some type of childcare while their parents work, many for multiple hours a day, several days a week.
Nov 20, 2019
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A recent study indicates that certain physicians who care for patients with cancer do not often promote healthy lifestyle changes to cancer survivors, and they may fear that providing such advice would distress or overwhelm ...
Aug 26, 2019
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Children may have a better chance of avoiding unhealthy habits linked to obesity and cardiovascular disease later in life if they are taught properly about healthy behaviors in preschool, Mount Sinai researchers have shown ...
Apr 22, 2019
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Workplace health promotion programs are increasing in the U.S., according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
Apr 22, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Couch Potato Nation: Nearly half of Americans sit for far too many hours a day and don't get any exercise at all, a new study finds.
Nov 20, 2018
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A new study led by American Cancer Society researchers in collaboration with leading experts concludes that physical activity should be routinely assessed during the doctor-patient encounter, and that clinicians should design ...
Feb 16, 2017
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Integrating physical activity counseling in Mexico's primary care settings and providing referrals to community-based programming appear to be effective strategies to help patients increase their physical activity levels, ...
Jan 30, 2017
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A little more than half of family health teams in Ontario offer physical activity services such as classes or counselling to encourage exercise among patients, and new research finds that standardizing access could help reduce ...
Feb 12, 2015
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To better understand the current use of physical activity as medicine among Family Health Teams (FHTs) in Ontario, researchers at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo and the Centre for Family Medicine ...
Feb 2, 2015
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