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This paper examines the effects of sports and exercise on hospital stays for males and females by various chronic conditions using a panel data set from Canada. The results suggest that moderately active and active individuals have shorter hospital stays than inactive individuals. On average,...
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The impacts of exercise and physical activity on healthcare utilization of older adults have been studied using either (1) clinical trials or retrospective cohort studies focusing on older people who participated in various exercise intervention programs, or (2) survey data. This review focuses...
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Team physicians for professional sports franchises face a conflict of interest created by the competing loyalties they owe to the team that employs them and to the athlete patient they must treat. Marketing agreements under which physicians pay significant sums of money to be designated as the...
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For almost two decades, a sexual predator groomed and abused hundreds of young, female athletes. All the while, he held an esteemed position as the national team doctor for USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for the sport of U.S. gymnastics, and served on the faculty at Michigan State...
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Objectives: To estimate the impact of increased physical activity on utilization of hospital services among older adults in Canada. Methods: The paper uses the Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 2.1, and count data regression models. The study sample includes 18,196 adults aged 65 and above....
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girls can sometimes be awful. There is growing evidence to suggest that violent girls are not fighting back against boys … far too many cases, girls are trying to attract boys at the expense of other girls. I examine the current status of Title … explain why girls are attacking girls, nor do they account for the motive behind the violence that these girls themselves …
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Sport zur Gesundheitsbeeinflussung ist in westlichen Industriegesellschaften ein gesellschaftlich akzeptiertes Mittel. Da jedoch die meisten existierenden Studien auf Querschnittdaten beruhen, lassen sich auf der Grundlage dieser Studien keine kausalen Aussagen zur komplexen Wechselwirkung von...
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