Population aging, physical inactivity, and the increased occurrence of chronic diseases drive up public health care expenditures around the globe ( Chief Medical Officer Annual Report, 2009 ; Davis et al., 2014 ). Despite well-documented evidence on the significant health benefits of physical
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Sports Participation and Health Care Costs in Older Adults Aged 50 Years or Older
Jamile S. Codogno, Henrique L. Monteiro, Bruna C. Turi-Lynch, Romulo A. Fernandes, Subhash Pokhrel, and Nana Anokye
Associations Between Physical Activity Vital Sign in Patients and Health Care Utilization in a Health Care System, 2018–2020
Cindy Y. Lin, Trever J. Ball, Nicole L. Gentile, Valerie F. McDonald, and Andrew T. Humbert
Insufficient physical activity (PA) is one of the leading risk factors for all-cause mortality and common chronic diseases. Insufficient PA presents significant economic costs to countries and their health care systems globally. 1 , 2 Recent work found that physical inactivity presents a higher
Does Having a Culturally Competent Health Care Provider Affect the Patients’ Experience or Satisfaction? A Critically Appraised Topic
Miranda Brunett and René Revis Shingles
Clinical Scenario People from different cultures, races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, and other social locations have different beliefs about illness and different needs and preferences when it comes to receiving health care. Cultural competence in health care can generally be defined as the
Associations Between Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, and Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure: Evidence From Chinese Older Adults
Hongjun Yu and Andiara Schwingel
As life expectancy increases, population aging has become an important focus of global health. Aging is associated with increased burden of chronic diseases and increased health care costs. This is an important challenge to global economic stability in the 21st century ( Prince et al., 2015 ). Both
Perceived Health Care Climate of Older People Attending an Exercise Program: Validation of the German Short Version of the Health Care Climate Questionnaire
Andreas Heissel, Anou Pietrek, Michael A. Rapp, Stephan Heinzel, and Geoffrey Williams
incentives undermines autonomy and motivation and is to be avoided ( Ryan & Deci, 2017 ). In the context of health care counseling, need support is seen as a core ingredient in the relationship between the health care provider and patient, supporting inner motivational resources and the autonomous self
Beyond the List of Traits: Addressing and Assessing Cultural Needs of Patients in Health Care Settings
René Revis Shingles
Cultural competence is considered a foundational behavior of professional practice that “should be incorporated into instruction” ( National Athletic Trainers’ Association, 2011 , p. 3). Health care professionals are expected to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities to understand customs
Exercise With Unstable Objects: A Descriptive Survey Among Health Care and Fitness Professionals
Scott W. Cheatham, Russell T. Baker, Wendy Batts, Tony Ambler-Wright, and Brian Sutton
Unstable objects are popular devices used by health care and fitness professionals for variety of purposes such as sport performance, injury or fall prevention, fitness, and rehabilitation. 1 – 3 Common unstable objects used included, but are not limited to the “both sides utilized” (BOSU) ball
Quantifying Lumbar Movement Patterns of Allied Health Professionals in an Australian Health Care Facility
Georde Vuillermin, Kelly-Ann Bowles, Ross Iles, and Cylie Williams
aim of this study, we have demonstrated that recruitment and objective movement monitoring for occupational groups is feasible within health care settings. Limited comparisons may be made with previous research as only one study has utilized this technology for full-day movement recording. 9 Wartski
A Digital Twin Framework for Precision Neuromusculoskeletal Health Care: Extension Upon Industrial Standards
David J. Saxby, Claudio Pizzolato, and Laura E. Diamond
operate specific machinery, etc) as many industrial applications do not require faithful representation of human form, function, and state beyond availability and suitability for industrial tasks. In contrast, precision neuromusculoskeletal health care requires a digital twin highly personalized to the
Comparison of Health Care Expenditures Among U.S. Older Adults With Pain Who Reported Frequent Exercise Versus Nonfrequent Exercise
David R. Axon, Jonathan Chien, and Hanh Dinh
on Advancing Pain Research, Care, and Education, 2011 ). Pain may lead to poor outcomes (e.g., greater pain severity and disability, longer pain duration, multiple pain sites, anxiety, depression, maladaptive coping strategies, greater use of the health care system, more workdays lost, and
