BACKGROUND Amateur sporting clubs represent an attractive setting for health promotion. This study assesses the impact of a multi-component intervention on the availability, promotion and purchase of fruit and vegetable and non sugar -sweetened drink products from community sporting club canteens. We also assessed the impact the intervention on sporting club revenue from the sale of food and be...

Learning and practicing evidence-based medicine (EBM) is vital for all healthcare professionals throughout their careers and requires expert medical knowledge, effective communication skills to uncover patient values, as well as critical thinking skills in appraisal of the scientific literature.1 Integrating EBM training and critical thinking skills into undergraduate medical education programs...

The FTCs action against Toys "R" Us centers on the implementation by Toys "R" Us of a policy in which it reserved the right not to carry the same toy items sold by a manufacturer to warehouse clubs. The FTC alleges that the Toys "R" Us policy reflects an attempt to exercise market power by impeding competition from warehouse clubs. Toys "R" Us defends its policy as an efficiency-enhancing verti...

With the industrialization of football, not only sporting success clubs, but also their financial performance has become subjects discussion. The aim this study is to compare five major football clubs in UEFA by comparing liquidity, leverage and profitability ratios for 2015-2019 period. data obtained from clubs' websites annual reports. It concluded that Manchester City FC highest while Juvent...

BACKGROUND Critical appraisal skills allow surgeons to evaluate the literature in an objective and structured manner, with emphasis on the validity of the evidence. The development of skills in critical acquisition and appraisal of the literature is crucial to delivering quality surgical care. It is also widely accepted that journal clubs are a time-honored educational paradigm for teaching and...

BACKGROUND The numbers of women initiating lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) during pregnancy and postpartum is increasing rapidly, presenting a burden on health systems and an urgent need for scalable models of care for this population. In a pilot project, we referred postpartum women who initiated ART during pregnancy to a community-based model of differentiated ART services. METHODS El...

tv broadcasting right is one of the main sources of financial income for football clubs in the world. however, this right has not been legalized in iran yet and has caused many serious problems for iranian football clubs. the aim of this study was to investigate legal gaps and obstacles and to provide strategies to improve the relationships between football clubs and islamic republic of iran br...

In a questionnaire study of 1,559 English professional footballers, the incidence of cigarette smoking was found to be much lower than the national average. Of those surveyed only 5% admitted to cigarette smoking. Smoking was much lower in First Division Clubs (3.2%), and higher in Fourth Division Clubs (6.9%). It is suggested that these figures could be used in a national campaign to promote n...

In this paper, we give a novel abstract description of Szabo’s polycategories. We use the theory of double clubs – a generalisation of Kelly’s theory of clubs to ‘pseudo’ (or ‘weak’) double categories – to construct a pseudo-distributive law of the free symmetric strict monoidal category pseudocomonad onMod over itself qua pseudomonad, and show that monads in the ‘two-sided Kleisli bicategory’ ...

BACKGROUND EuroFIT is a gender-sensitised, health and lifestyle program targeting physical activity, sedentary time and dietary behaviours in men. The delivery of the program in football clubs, led by the clubs' community coaches, is designed to both attract and engage men in lifestyle change through an interest in football or loyalty to the club they support. The EuroFIT program will be evalua...