People Are Taller in Countries With Better Environmental Conditions

Delivering better services for people with long-term conditions

n The house of care model differs from others in two important ways: it encompasses all people with long-term conditions, not just those with a single disease or in high-risk groups; and it assumes an active role for patients, with collaborative personalised care planning at its heart. Implementing the model requires health care professionals to abandon traditional ways of thinking and behaving...

Are Taller Handball Goalkeepers Better? Certain Characteristics and Abilities of Slovenian Male Athletes

Although previous studies have found that body height and body mass are relevant for the selection of handball goalkeepers, there is still a dilemma whether taller goalkeepers actually have any advantage over the shorter goalkeepers in certain performance characteristics. Therefore the purpose of this study was to evaluate the chosen anthropometric characteristics and psycho-motor abilities of ...

Commentary: the long and short of why taller people are healthier and live longer.

Research on life course epidemiology and the fetal and childhood origins of chronic disease has grown steadily during the past two decades. It has long been observed that height, a stable marker of early childhood conditions, has a strong negative association with all-cause mortality but heterogeneous association with cause-specific mortality. In their meta-analysis, the Emerging Risk Factors C...

Barriers to better care for people with AIDS in developing countries.

Better RED than dead: paying the people for environmental services in Amazonia: paying the people for environmental services in Amazonia

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