However, one habit that provides lifelong health benefits seldom makes the list: sleep. Sleep is often overlooked as an important lifestyle factor that greatly contributes to our overall health and well-being. The CDC shares that sleep holds with it many health benefits that can include: ...
Ideally, such policies must have a population-based, upstream perspective that recognizes that risks and strengths emerge during sensitive periods of development. Additionally the policies must recognize that, once the period has passed, risks are harder to reverse and strengths are harder to develop...
Items to assess the establishment of meaningful connections with others include: “I often find it easy to establish friendships with others,”“I don’t think most people have more friends than I do,”“I feel particularly happy to be with my family members,” and “I seldom find it ...
causal influences may interact across levels—for example, “education to be physically active may work better when policies support active living through physician counseling, insurance discounts for engaging in regular activity, and sidewalks on all streets” (Sallis & Owen,2015, p. 48; see also ...
Despite the apparent agreement on this diagnosis, the means to produce change are seldom clear, even when the turn to health and well-being requires sizable shifts in our understandings of public health and research practices. This paper sets out a platform from which research approaches, methods...
US sanctions are killing Cubans, encouraging people to emigrate, destroying families, and causing trauma. Plus, they’ve shown they don’t work. Biden has 90 days to make good on his campaign promises (grrrr) to revert to Obama-era policies – he can achieve this with the stroke of a pe...
Regulatory functions are those based on the legal authority of a public health agency to set and enforce standards. Setting health targets, policies and financing, and national or state standards is important in promoting new program initiatives. Health promotion includes not only direct and formal ...
The explanation for this may be that IoMT trials or observations about how to use IoMT in healthcare settings are seldom useful. This explains why the connections between trialability and motivation, as well as observability and motivation, were found to be statistically insignificant (this explains...
To achieve this, robust, culturally grounded, and First Nations-determined principles and practices to guide co-design approaches are required. Aims: This project aimed to develop a set of key principles and best practices for co-design in health with First Nations Australians. Methods: A First ...
data shows. And the back-and-forth about where the fault lies in such cases is actually part of the problem: The systems are often so confusing (and training on them seldom sufficient) that errors frequently fall into a nether zone of responsibility. It can be hard to tell where human er...