Are interventions to reduce sitting at workplace effective?
Clinical Scenario It is common for family physicians in developing nations like India to encounter patients whose profession demands sedentary lifestyle. Such patients present with back problems, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes and ask doctors for advice on how to decrease sitting. Wo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2015;volume=4;issue=3;spage=331;epage=332;aulast=Shrestha |
| Summary: | Clinical Scenario
It is common for family physicians in developing nations like India to encounter patients whose profession demands sedentary lifestyle. Such patients present with back problems, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes and ask doctors for advice on how to decrease sitting. Workplaces need to address this issue by inculcating strategies to decrease sitting and improve health of their employees. Occupational physicians too need to suggest evidence-based strategies to employers. This article provides an evidence based summary about what interventions are actually effective for decreasing sitting at workplace. |
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| ISSN: | 2249-4863 |