Can a mother’s stress impact children’s disease development? Environmental health researcher says there is a connection between trauma and DNA mutation — ScienceDaily

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Stress on an expectant mother could affect her baby’s chance of developing disease — perhaps even over the course of the child’s life, UC researchers have found. Psychosocial factors creating stress — such as lack of social support, loneliness, marriage status or bereavement — may be mutating their child’s mitochondrial […]

Children’s National Hospital earns Clean Facility Certificate from the Association for the Health Care Environment

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Children’s National Healthcare facility is among the initially facilities to achieve this distinction Oct 19, 2020 Children’s National Healthcare facility is among the initially facilities to achieve a Clear Facility Certification from the Association for the Wellness Care Natural environment (AHE), the regarded authority in wellbeing care environmental products and […]

Ontario Protects Workers, Volunteers and Organizations Who Make Honest Efforts to Follow COVID-19 Public Health Guidelines and Laws

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TORONTO — The Ontario government is introducing the Supporting Ontario’s Recovery Act, 2020, that if passed, will present legal responsibility protection for staff, volunteers and corporations that make an straightforward effort to follow general public health and fitness suggestions and rules relating to exposure to COVID-19. At the similar time, […]

Heart Attacks, Bloody Noses, and Other “Emotional Problems”: Cultural and Conceptual Issues With the Spanish Translation of Self-Report Emotional Health Items

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This report examines how respondents understood things in the Spanish variations of the Short-Sort 36 (SF-36v2). Cognitive interviews of the SF-36 ended up carried out in 2 phases with 46 Spanish speakers dwelling in the United States. About a person-3rd (seventeen/46) of respondents experienced problems being familiar with the Purpose […]

Promoting Healthier Home Food Environments Through 2-1-1: A… : Family & Community Health

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OVER TWO-THIRDS of adults in the United States (US) are overweight or obese, with 39.8{bf9f37f88ebac789d8dc87fbc534dfd7d7e1a7f067143a484fc5af4e53e0d2c5} classified as obese in 2015-2016 and significant disparities by socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity.1–3Nutrition-focused public health efforts to address the obesity epidemic are wide-ranging, but typically focus on increasing access to healthy foods in a range […]