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The Fall 2023 Annual Conference for the Western Society for Kinesiology & Wellness (WSKW) will be on Thursday, October 5th – Friday, October 6th in Oakland, CA.
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The 2023 program will include presentations from across the breadth of kinesiology and will provide opportunities to engage and learn with colleagues. The conference will incorporate poster presentations, oral presentations, round table discussions, and panel presentations.
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For consumers, health care industry experts say, the shift offers more privacy, but could also make it more difficult to find primary care, mental health and other medical services online.
“Legal and compliance teams … are telling the marketing team that these tools are dead men walking, you need to shut it off immediately,” said Ray Mina, head of marketing at Freshpaint, a San Francisco firm that provides software to health care firms for firms managing customer marketing data.
The backdrop for this new concern is a rising trend of Americans receiving information or services from mental health apps, telehealth
MELBOURNE — Two health care workers have been arrested and charged with abusing an elderly dementia patient at a Melbourne care home and livestreaming the incident on Snapchat, police said Saturday.
Jada Harris, 18, and Shy’Tiona Jazziemysha Bishop, 20, both of Cocoa, were both charged with video voyeurism, abuse of an elderly person and interception/disclosure of wire or oral communications, after Brevard County sheriff’s investigators received an anonymous tip about the incidents recorded April 3, court records show.
Harris and Bishop were arrested Friday and booked into the Brevard County Jail Complex in Sharpes and each held on $4,000 bail.
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As more health care facilities grow to become “medical campuses” and medical meccas for care, they emulate hotels in their quality and delivery of health and wellness (H2H) services. Many build hotels or have partner hotels for medical guests and tourists on their health campuses. An innovative approach to blending hospitality and health care can be found in Orlando, where the RosenCare model could increase lodging revenue by using medical travel to the United States. In fact, in medical centers and hospitals, after the procedure (surgery or other treatment), approximately 75% of the services provided to patients are hospitality/hotel-related services
Attempts to reform Canada’s health-care system — particularly when it comes to primary care — are nothing new.
Ten years ago, dr. Monica Aggarwal, a professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, first listed a series of features she believes should characterize high-performing primary health-care systems in Canada and similar countries.
Some points Aggarwal outlined had been in the works for years before she looked into the subject. But she says actual implementation was spotty at best. By 2022, she told CBC News in a recent interview, that was still the case.
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Ontario now funds our public hospitals at the lowest rate of any province in Canada despite the government’s claims that it pays more for health care than ever before
To the editors:
The decision of the Ford government to privatize some of Ontario’s health care services and hand them over to for-profit clinics and hospitals is a political choice, but doing so is not a necessity.
During the 2022 Spring election campaign, the Ford Cons were repeatedly asked if privatization was on their agenda. They categorically denied that it was…several times in fact. The Ford Cons lied, and they simply
A prominent group of nurses in California slammed a state plan to rollback masking and COVID-19 vaccine requirements in health care settings starting in April, arguing that the decision puts health care workers at risk.
The condemnation came Friday after the California Department of Public Health announced earlier in the day that it will no longer require masks to be worn in indoor high-risk and health care settings nor require health care workers to be vaccinated for COVID-19 starting April 3 .
The department noted that federal rules still ensure most health care workers are vaccinated for COVID-19.
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