Active work, passive leisure? Associations between occupational and non-occupational physical activity on weekdays.

Research from recent years reports that physical inactivity is a major risk factor for global mortality. Several societal trends in the last decades are likely to have contributed to the increasing prevalence of sedentary lifestyles. Physical activity throughout the day has become much less self-evident and much more a matter of personal effort.

Labelling of end-of-life decisions by physicians.

Objectives: Potentially life-shortening medical end-of-life practices (end-of-life decisions (ELDs)) remain subject to conceptual vagueness. This study evaluates how physicians label these practices by examining which of their own practices (described according to the precise act, the intention, the presence of an explicit patient request and the self-estimated degree of life shortening)they label as euthanasia or sedation.

Methods: We conducted a large stratified random sample of death certificates from 2007 (N=6927).