U of Toronto Boosts Seniors’ Health with Social-Kinesiology Link
Two University of Toronto faculties are teaming up on a new pilot project that aims to improve the physical and mental health of local seniors through a combination of exercise and talk therapy.
Partnering with the Jane/Finch Centre in northwest Toronto – a multi-service community centre focusing on poverty reduction – the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education developed the Talk It Out, Work It Out program for the centre’s clients, particularly seniors.
Graduate students from each faculty also contributed to the program’s curriculum.
Kinesiology students focused on the “Work It Out” section…
The Bill to #PassPaidLeave Is Back
Today, on Wednesday, May 17, congressmen and -women from the House and the Senate gathered on Capitol Hill to mark the reintroduction of comprehensive paid family and medical leave legislation—the FAMILY (Family and Medical Insurance Leave) Act—which would finally bring the United States in line with the rest of the world.
The US is one of only six countries on the planet, and the only wealthy nation of those, with no national paid family and medical leave policy. Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, along with…
Pitfalls of analyzing perinatal outcomes by health care providers
The recent study by Stoll and colleagues1 showed a substantial reduction in perinatal death (relative risk [RR] 0.44), low birth weight (RR 0.24), preterm birth (RR 0.39), an Apgar score of less than 7 at 5 minutes (RR 0.63) and cesarean delivery (RR 0.17) when care was provided by midwives. The analyzes were based on the most responsible provider (MRP), and risk stratification was carried out with a risk scoring system. Several potential methodological and analytical errors need consideration before these inferences can be made.
This risk scoring system could not have substantially reduced the selection bias. Many individual risk…