Presenteeism. (Still more) benefits of sports.
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Posted on July 7, 2015
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- Management professor Gary Johns appears in a CBC television and text report about doctors who admit to treating patients while sick themselves. The story mentions that Johns has conducted research into the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism. Johns' television segment begins at the 1:45 mark.
- U de M Nouvelles, a publication of the Université de Montréal, writes about a study, co-authored by alumna Caroline Fitzpatrick, on the beneficial effects of structured extracurricular sports on children's engagement in the classroom. Fitzpatrick is a post-doctoral fellow at the PERFORM Centre. The study was published in the American Journal of Health Promotion.