Publications by authors named "C Bodini"

The first 1000 days of human life start from conception until the child turns 2 years of age. This is a unique period in which the foundations of a child's lifelong health are built. Disadvantaged socioeconomic circumstances and limited access to health care services can globally affect a child's health outcomes and educational and vocational potential.

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  • * Findings revealed that while 100% of cyclists were in a state of low energy availability (LEA) at baseline, using individual nutritional interventions significantly reduced this to 14%, unlike the carbohydrate supplementation which had minimal impact.
  • * Overall, factors like training load and body composition affected LEA, but the hot environment did not have a significant effect, highlighting the need for better nutritional education for young athletes.
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In his recent article, titled "Ensuring Global Health Equity in a Post-pandemic Economy," Ronald Labonté addresses a key challenge the world is facing, trying to 'build back' after the global crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic. He explores and critically examines different policy options, from a more inclusive 'stakeholder model' of capitalism, to a greater role of states in shaping markets and investing in the protection of health and the environment, to more radical options that propose to reframe the capitalist mantra of growth and look at different ways to value and center our societies around what really matters most to protect life. Social movements are key players in such transformation, however the political space they move in is progressively shrinking.

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Background: As coronavirus infection spread across the world, the dramatic consequences of Sars-CoV-2 and confinement measures highlighted the disparities within our society, impacting more severely on the wellbeing of the most disadvantaged groups of people, such as migrants. The structural characteristics of reception centres create many challenges in the implementation of measures to contrast the diffusion of the virus, putting refugees and asylum seekers (RAS) even more at risk. For these reasons, we carried out a qualitative study to analyze the impact of the syndemic on the health of RAS who reside in reception facilities in Bologna (one of the cities with the highest number of migrants in Italy) and the measures that were introduced to contrast the diffusion of Sars-CoV-2.

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Objectives: to characterize healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers.

Design: a quali-quantitative study with semi-structured interviews was carried out with key informants of the regional clinics which provide health assistance to refugees and asylum seekers during the first phases of arrival.

Setting And Participants: key informants of 14 health centres were interviewed across the 9 provinces of the region.

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