Iam honored to be included among the recipients of this award, although I find this a bit awkward. I can think of a number of individuals more worthy. In 1993 I accepted a position as a nursing home physician within the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, which included work as the physician for a seven-bed inpatient hospice unit. This unit, established in 1979 was one of the earliest of its kind ...

The title “physical education” (PE) is the traditional taxonomy used to represent the education discipline. Health and physical education (HPE) is regarded to be an all-encompassing health-dimensional title that has been recently embraced by various education systems around the world. Hence, it can be argued that PE and HPE are often used interchangeably by educationalists, portraying a similar...

It is a reality of the discipline of respiratory therapy that most practitioners will be directly involved in the removal of ventilatory support as part of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit. In light of the frequency of this event, the sensitive nature of the process, and the potential for moral distress in caregivers involved in withdrawal of life support, it is appropriate that incr...

BACKGROUND Globally, the high prevalence of overweight and low levels of physical activity among children has serious implications for morbidity and premature mortality in adulthood. Various parental factors are associated with childhood overweight and physical activity. The objective of this paper was to investigate relationships between parental education or overweight, and (i) child overweig...

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