Health promotion programs in prison: attendance and role in promoting physical activity and subjective health status

IntroductionMaintaining an inmate’s health can serve as a challenge due to unhealthy background, risky behavior, and long imprisonment. This study aimed to analyze the prevalence of participation in health promotion activities among Israeli inmates and its association with their physical activity levels and subjective health status.MethodsA cross-sectional study was designed to examine 522 inmates (429 males, 93 females). The data were collected by trained face-to-face interviewers and self-report questionnaires.ResultsMost of the participants (82.37%) did not meet the recommended physical activity level. Half of the participants reported that their physical activity levels decreased since they were in prison compared with 29.50% who reported that their physical activity levels increased. Physical activity and subjective health status were significantly higher among younger male inmates. Furthermore, participation in health-promoting activities was associated with higher levels of physical activity and subjective health status.DiscussionHealth promotion activities may play an important role in addressing the challenges of maintaining inmate health. Implications of the findings are further discussed

A Chirality-Based Quantum Leap

There is increasing interest in the study of chiral degrees of freedom occurring in matter and in electromagnetic fields. Opportunities in quantum sciences will likely exploit two main areas that are the focus of this Review: (1) recent observations of the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect in chiral molecules and engineered nanomaterials and (2) rapidly evolving nanophotonic strategies designed to amplify chiral light-matter interactions. On the one hand, the CISS effect underpins the observation that charge transport through nanoscopic chiral structures favors a particular electronic spin orientation, resulting in large room-temperature spin polarizations. Observations of the CISS effect suggest opportunities for spin control and for the design and fabrication of room-temperature quantum devices from the bottom up, with atomic-scale precision and molecular modularity. On the other hand, chiral-optical effects that depend on both spin- and orbital-angular momentum of photons could offer key advantages in all-optical and quantum information technologies. In particular, amplification of these chiral light-matter interactions using rationally designed plasmonic and dielectric nanomaterials provide approaches to manipulate light intensity, polarization, and phase in confined nanoscale geometries. Any technology that relies on optimal charge transport, or optical control and readout, including quantum devices for logic, sensing, and storage, may benefit from chiral quantum properties. These properties can be theoretically and experimentally investigated from a quantum information perspective, which has not yet been fully developed. There are uncharted implications for the quantum sciences once chiral couplings can be engineered to control the storage, transduction, and manipulation of quantum information. This forward-looking Review provides a survey of the experimental and theoretical fundamentals of chiral-influenced quantum effects and presents a vision for their possible future roles in enabling room-temperature quantum technologies.ISSN:1936-0851ISSN:1936-086

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Be a Leader, Be Accountable to patient Complaints

Quality of healthcare can be measuredby many ways; today it is a common knowledge thatPatients' satisfaction is a critical variable in anycalculation of quality. Patients' satisfaction is a goalfor all physicians and other medical staff. Patients arenow judging physicians not solely by cost, but also bythe value of quality of care they deliver [1]. Usuallymedical organizations use satisfaction surveys inorder to learn what does the health customer thinksabout their health care delivery, products, attitudeetc. The problem with this method is that most of thetime, these surveys reflect topics that interest theorganization, and this is not always equivalent to thepatients' interests. Another way is to look at patients'dissatisfaction, and learn about the organization frompatients' complaints. The way patient complaints aretreated indicates the organization's accountability tothem. This is especially true in a hierarchicalorganization such as a military unit where the missionis above all, before the soldier's welfare and health. Inthis paper we will describe patients' dissatisfaction;explain what complaints are; describe theircontribution to the organization and theirrelationship with risk assessment and patient safety;review the issues that soldiers are complaining about;and finally discuss who should be accountable fordealing with health issues at the military

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