Be nutrition aware in primary care: making every contact count [PDF]
The role of nutritional status and dietary intake in influencing health and disease cannot be overstated, impacting at all stages of the life cycle. There is unequivocal evidence that risk of non-communicable disease, including cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the UK, is strongly associated with obesity, nutritional status, and ...
Julia Darzi
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This article provides a snapshot of primary prevention activities in hospitals in 20 European high-income countries, based on inputs from experts of the Observatory's Health Systems and Policies Monitor (HSPM) network using a structured questionnaire.
Bernd Rechel
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Online behaviour change technique training to support healthcare staff ‘Make Every Contact Count’ [PDF]
Background National Health Service (NHS) staff support service users to change health-related behaviours such as smoking, alcohol consumption, diet and physical activity.
Anna Chisholm +5 more
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How useful is the Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills approach for supporting people with musculoskeletal conditions? [PDF]
Em Rahman +2 more
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Making Every Contact Count with people with MSK conditions: Exploring physiotherapist acceptability [PDF]
Abstract There are known risk factors that are associated with the onset and exacerbation of musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions and pain. Physiotherapists are uniquely placed to deliver brief interventions with their patients.
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Smoking Cessation Amid the Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic: Making Every Contact Count. [PDF]
Recently, YouGov and the campaign group, Action on Smoking and Health, published the results of their survey on the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the smoking behavior of current adult smokers.1 The study, which interviewed over 1000 adult participants residing in the United Kingdom during April 2020, revealed some positive findings ...
Shahzad Hasan S, Kow CS, Ahmadi K.
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Making every contact count: the role of the clinician in smoking cessation during the perioperative period. [PDF]
Editor – We read the paper by Durrand et al about setting up prehabilitation services with interest and would like to highlight our learning and insight from a local smoking cessation service for perioperative patients.[1][1] Smoking is an independent predictor of postoperative complications ...
Anandanadesan R, Shah M, De Silva AC.
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Optimizing Making Every Contact Count (MECC) interventions: A strategic behavioral analysis. [PDF]
This Strategic Behavioral Analysis aimed to: identify barriers and facilitators to health care professionals' implementation of Making Every Contact Count (MECC); code behavioral components of nationally delivered interventions to improve MECC implementation; assess the extent to which these components are theoretically congruent with identified ...
Catherine Haighton +7 more
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Making every contact count: recognising obesity in paediatric and young adult cardiology [PDF]
AbstractIntroduction:With increased survival, children with CHD are reaching adulthood, however, obesity amongst this cohort is an emerging problem. Making every contact count encourages clinicians to utilise contact to elicit behaviour change. The aim of this work was to identify whether the body habitus of children classified as obese was addressed ...
Aaron E. Smith +2 more
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Background Consistent with the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ UK public health policy, general practitioners (GPs) are expected to provide patients with behaviour change interventions opportunistically. However, there is a belief widely held among GPs that
Chris Keyworth +4 more
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