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. “Movement is health,” I noted under Drew’s LinkedIn announcement : there is a growing evidence-base proving that physical activity has direct positive impacts on peoples’ chronic diseases and other conditions — including mentalhealth and well-being.
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.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primarycare, bundling in mentalhealth, health coaches and nutritionists.
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