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Aftek Motors Showcased at Auto Expo 2018

Amongst all the action at the Auto Expo 2018 Aftek Motors showcased its entire lineup of motorcycles. This includes the Knight Rider 170cc, Scorpion 200cc, Skipper 125cc, Royal+ 110cc, the Turbo 170cc and the Zontes R-250. The company will launch all the motorcycles in March, with price ranging from Rs 44,000 to Rs 1.75 lakh (all prices ex-showroom). The company also plans on opening dealerships in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra and Gujarat this year.

Starting off with the Turbo, it is powered by a 170cc engine which produces 14.2PS of power at 9000rpm and 13.5Nm of torque at 7500rpm, mated to a 5-speed gearbox. The motorcycle also comes equipped with an LED tail light and turning light. Suspension duties are handled by conventional telescopic forks up front and dual shock absorbers at the rear, while braking is handled by a disc brake at the front and a drum unit at the rear.

The Scorpion Z-200, on the other hand, is powered by a 200cc, single-cylinder, fuel-injected engine that produces 19PS of power at 8000rpm and 18Nm of torque at 6500rpm, mated to a 5-speed gearbox. It too comes with LED taillights and turning lights.

The third entry on our list is the Skipper AF-125. It is powered by a 125cc single-cylinder engine which churns out 10.8PS of power at 9000rpm and 9Nm of torque at 7500rpm. Transmission is taken care of by a 5-speed gearbox. According to the company, the motorcycle can achieve a top speed of 85kmph. Suspension duties are handled by telescopic forks up front and dual shock absorbers at the back. The company has equipped the Skipper with a disc brake up front and a drum unit at the rear.

The Aztek Motors Kight Rider KR-170 is powered by a 170cc single-cylinder engine which churns out 14.27PS of power and 13.5Nm of torque at 7500rpm, mated to a 5-speed gearbox. Just like the Scorpion and the Turbo, it gets LED tail and turning lights. The company has equipped the Knight Rider with telescopic forks up front and dual shock absorbers at the back. Braking is handled by a disc brake at the front and a drum unit at the rear.

The Royal+ is the company’s entry-level motorcycle. It is powered by a 110cc single-cylinder, air-cooled engine which churns out 11.55PS of power and 9Nm of torque, mated to a 5-speed gearbox. Suspension duties are handled by telescopic forks at the front and hydraulic dampers with helical springs at the rear. The company has equipped the motorcycle with drum brakes on both wheels.

The Aftek Zontes R250 is the company’s flagship motorcycle. It gets a bigger 249cc single-cylinder, oil-cooled engine which produces 24.4PS of power and 23Nm of torque, mated to a 6-speed gearbox. The motorcycle gets LED treatment at the front and back. It also gets a digital instrument cluster. The Zontes R250 can achieve a top speed of 145kmph according to the company. Suspension duties are handled by telescopic forks at the front and air bag shock absorbers at the rear, while braking is handled by disc brakes at the front and rear, with ABS coming as standard.

The company so far hasn’t announced any pricing details or when the motorcycles will be launched. However, with the company showcasing its production-ready lineup here, a launch might not be that far off.

Senate Bagged Healthcare aid for Marshallesa

OLYMPIA – For Doresty Daniel, Thursday was “the greatest day of my life.”
The Washington state Senate had just passed a bill to provide health care to Marshall Islanders who are residents of Washington, a measure designed to help the Marshallese who suffer health problems from nuclear tests the United States conducted near their islands in 1940-50. “It means that our people can go out there now, without being afraid of going to the doctor because of (the cost),” said Daniel, a Spokane resident and school district employee.

The bill would allow more people from countries belonging to the Compact of Free Association – an international agreement between the United States and the Pacific Island nations of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau – to receive health insurance.
The Health Care Authority would pay for premiums and out-of-pocket costs of individuals who are citizens of a COFA nation and current Washington residents, with incomes at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level.

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Rebecca Saldana, D-Seattle, said the islanders have experienced negative health impacts from the testing, including cancer.
“We’re making right of a past wrong and making sure they have access to health care for their families, for their children and especially for their elders,” she said.
Sen. Bob Hasegawa, D-Beacon Hill, said Washington has a moral obligation to the islanders, who were used as “human guinea pigs” to test the effects of radiation.
“This case is one of the most egregious examples of where we really need to step up,” he said.
But Sen. Jan Angel, R-Kitsap, said the bill does not address the many other Washington residents who pay insurance premiums that are too high, especially young families and single mothers.

“I’m struggling with taking one group of people and singling them out with these benefits,” she said.
Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, said she supports helping the islanders, but is concerned Washington will become a magnet for financial burdens that are the federal government’s responsibility.

“We’re being the adults in the room, and we’re taking care of these people,” she said. “(But) Washington state can’t fix all of Washington, D.C.’s problems.”
Emtison Nyberg, a Marshallese Spokane resident, said she felt like crying with joy when the bill passed. It especially will help seniors like her mother, who does not have insurance and was previously unable to seek help for a bad leg, she said.
“We’ve been waiting for this for a long time,” Nyberg said.

Healthcare Groups Refined the Single-payer System in California

The focus of the testimony was SB 562, a single-payer bill that was approved last year but then shelved. The bill would establish a system by which the state would pay for all healthcare and essentially cut out insurance companies. Taxes would increase, but supporters maintained that would be offset by the elimination of insurance premiums, copays and other costs.

There are some legal hurdles that would make switching to a single-payer system difficult, according to a report from local public news outlet KPCC. The rules that govern the Affordable Care Act, for example, are all federal, so any changes would require negotiation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

California’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, relies on both state and federal funding, and the feds have the final say. Plus, there’s Medicare: It’s a federal program, so California can’t make changes to eligibility, financing or benefits without a thumbs-up from Washington.

There are also a couple of state laws that would make things thorny — such as Prop 4, a 1979 law that limits how much tax money the state can keep. Above a certain threshold, funds have to be returned to taxpayers, and it would require an amendment to the law to make healthcare exempt.

Supporters of the bill, including the California Physicians Alliance, say it would be worth the effort. One of those supporters, economist Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told the committee Wednesday that the state would have to raise about $100 million in additional funds to cover the cost of single-payer, but that most in the state would end up paying less for healthcare because insurance-related expenses would be eliminated.

Other supporters include Health Access California, the California Immigrant Policy Center, Small Business Majority and the California Labor Federation.
Opponents of the bill — including the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Medical Association — say there’s no responsible way to pay for a single-payer system.

The committee is expected to produce a report by this spring with recommendations on how to proceed.

Billionaire Punjabi Brothers Resigned From Fort is Healthcare Board

Billionaire Malvinder Mohan Singh and his younger brother Shivinder Mohan Singh, founders of Fortis Healthcare, resigned from the company’s board on Thursday. A late night Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) filing announced the stepping down of the promoters.

“…we believe this is in the interest of propriety and good governance. It is intended to free the organization from any encumbrances whatsoever that may be linked to the Promoters,” the brothers wrote in their joint resignation letter to the board of directors.

Their resignation from the Fortis board happens days after the Delhi High Court upheld an international arbitration case award of Rs. 3,500 crore to Japanese company Daiichi Sankyo against them.The brothers said they are resigning to ensure the company is insulated from this ongoing legal fight.
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The Singh brothers were also the founders of the pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy. They sold their stakes to a Japanese drugmaker for $2.4 billion in 2008. Shivinder Mohan Singh founded Fortis Healthcare with his elder brother Malvinder in late 1990s.

Amazon,Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase

The announcement of the healthcare partnership between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase is either the major disruptor everyone in the industry has been awaiting or means little except to the three companies involved. Since the firms have given no indication of what they’re planning, everyone is reading into the collaboration.
Reaction has been like a Rorschach test, Kaiser Health News Chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner said during an America’s Health Insurance Plans forum Tuesday morning. People in the industry are either excited or scared.

“They’re focused on managing cost, also on that patient or employee experience,” said Tracy Watts, a senior partner with Mercer, during Tuesday’s AHIP panel discussion on employer insurance coverage. “Think about how the experience on Amazon is different than how we access healthcare delivery. I look forward to what they come up with. I don’t know if it will be dramatically different.” The Adis Group CEO Lyndean Brick said the whole thing is a mixed bag.
“Some are excited and others think it doesn’t mean anything. I think it’s reasonable to think that payers have to pay attention to this,” Brick added. “There’s the theoretical possibility that this could take insurers out of the system.”

Payers welcome this as an opportunity, according to Miki Kapoor, president and former CEO of the Tea Leaves Health division, which was recently acquired by Welltok.

“Payers are saying ‘it’s a jolt that was needed.’ I believe payers know there is always going to be a role for them. They want to evolve so they remain at the center of care.”
Many in the industry believe Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase will cut out the insurance middleman for coverage for their combined 1 million-plus employees.

Shares of Anthem, Cigna, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Aetna and Aetna’s potential buyer, CVS Health, along with pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, tumbled after the Jan. 30 announcements before the stock market took a general steep drop on Monday.
Analysts have viewed the $69 billion merger between Aetna and CVS Health as a preemptive strike against what many believed would be an announcement by Amazon that it would enter the pharmacy services business.

Toby Cosgrove, former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic who now serves as an executive advisor, said during a precision medicine conference this fall that the industry was concerned about major forces in the supply chain, notably “Amazon coming at us in purchasing.”
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf said that, even short of details at this point, the fact that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan have come together to address employer-related healthcare is intriguing.

“Depending on how this new idea gets positioned and where they go with it, the company could have an impact on a lot of health systems that have their revenue driven by payments in this same space,” Wolf said. “That’s why they have to hurry up and get faster with digital health.”
Wolf also said that he anticipates more companies outside healthcare moving to disrupt the industry in interesting ways.
“I don’t expect it to slow down,” Wolf said. “I think we’ll see more and more combinations in the future.”

JPMorgan Chief Executive James Dimon publicly tried to calm fears, saying the deal would only serve the employees of the three firms, according to The Wall Street Journal. But JPMorgan also confirmed that it welcomes others to get involved after JPMorgan spokesman Brian Marchiony said in the same WSJ report that the bank has “had hundreds of phone calls and emails from client CEOs, doctors and healthcare administrators looking to see how they can get involved.”
On a Thursday earnings call, Cigna CEO David Cordani said the deal is “presenting more opportunities than not.”

Cordani talked about the importance of its U.S. commercial employer business as a “very attractive growth opportunity.”
Should the Amazon partnership go in the direction of taking a million-plus lives out of the commercial insurance market, and should it welcome others to get involved, insurers could find they’re covering more higher risk beneficiaries.

Cordani indicated that Cigna has been thinking for some time about the future direction of the health insurance industry, and it’s not the same old model.
“Clearly the announcement was not lost on us,” Cordani said during the call in response to an analyst question on the Amazon call. “So stepping back I think one way we look at the announcement is, it reinforces something we’ve been talking about for quite some time, which is – it’s a pretty dynamic industry and the older orientation around focusing only on insurance or a fee-for-servicehealthcare delivery model is just fundamentally not sustainable as employers and customers demand more.”

That reinforces the imperative of focusing on transparency, alignment and a demonstrable way to drive healthy productive present employees and making the employer’s business better and more effective, he said.

The main threat, or opportunity, presented by the Amazon deal is the ability of the online giant, backed by data and funding, to fundamentally lower the cost of healthcare, and to target insured employees in a personalized, digital way, better and more effectively than traditional providers and insurers.
“If I bought books on Amazon two years ago, they still know what I like and need. I think Amazon is around changing the dynamic,” Pfizer CMO Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, said at the same precision medicine summit attended by Cosgrove.

She likened the industry’s efforts to delivering Star Wars advancement in a Flintstones’ system.
Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway, however, will have the ability to manage employees as patients outside of the four walls of the healthcare system, Kapoor said. They will be able to influence behavior and measure those choices.

But the bottom line is that they chose to do this because they became frustrated with the cost of healthcare, he said. “Healthcare is breaking our economy,” Kapoor said. “I think these titans of industry have said, ‘we’re going to do something about it.'”
Brick said, “They’ve acknowledged they’d have to bend the cost curve. The way to bend it is to take out the middleman. They have the infrastructure. They can have their own little ecosystem, have Amazon deliver drugs to a person’s doorstep. They can buy providers.” The present system is regulated and fragmented to the point that it can’t really innovate, she said. “If we can innovate in an ecosystem like this, I think there may be some good examples that come out of this that are able to be adopted by the rest of healthcare,” Brick said. “I’m excited about this. It’s a public acknowledgment that employers are going to take charge and try and fix the system.”

Podcast Reaches up 25 years of Soliditary with Education Workers

As Education International (EI) celebrates its 25th anniversary, a new podcast helps us look back to past achievements that have helped thousands of teachers deliver quality education, no matter the circumstances.

EI is the global union federation of more than 32 million education sector workers. With 25 years to look back on, the organisation has many stories to tell: from its co-operation with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in the fight for better working conditions to immediate relief action when schools are hit by natural disasters, and the protection of politically persecuted educators in countries where freedom of speech is more a dream than a reality.

This podcast illustrates some of the above-mentioned examples through the voice of leaders, educators and EI staff who were on the ground, together with affiliates, making the organisation stronger and a strong actor in the international arena

Netherland’s Educator Code Red Continues

Dutch educators are on strike, demanding decent salaries and a normal workload, and urging the government to clearly and firmly address burn out and a shortage in teachers in primary education.

The first regional strike of the planned sequence is held in the provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drente, in the Netherlands, on 14 February.
The flu season makes the shortage of teachers extremely visible

As reported by Education International (EI) affiliate, the Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOb), the current flu season plays into the hands of the Front for primary education (PO-front),in staging the series of protest actions to reduce workload and increase salaries.

“It makes the shortage of teachers extremely visible in the Netherlands. Since the beginning of February, schools report about their struggle to cope with the absence of their colleagues being on sick leave. Among other things, there are no teachers available for replacement, classes are sent home, retired teachers are begged to help out, education personnel employed on a part time basis work extra days, school leaders teach the whole week and not-yet-too-sick continue teaching, even if they shouldn’t,” AOb commented.

Governmental small steps towards meeting educators’ demands
Following earlier protest actions in June 2017, October 2017 and December 2017, the Dutch government started to take small steps. The Minister of Education, Arie Slob, decided at short notice to announce the budget publicly which he had planned to release in 2021. The budget is oriented towards measures to reduce the workload.

The unions and employer organisations in the PO-front welcomed the decision. They see it as a first meaningful step. “Workload can only be reduced effectively when there are enough teachers, and in order to attract more people into the profession, only a substantial salary raise can help. Therefore, the announced series of strikes is to take place as planned,” AOb added.

Susan Flocken, European Director of EI’s European region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), welcomed the agreement reached, stressing that “it is high time for education authorities to seriously commit to quality education and improving the status of the teaching profession. In times of demographic change, retaining and attracting highly qualified teachers into the profession is crucial.”

Indeed, the provision of quality education depends on decent salaries and working conditions for the retention of qualified professionals and the recruitment of young qualified teachers, she noted.

She concluded: “ETUCE supports AOb in this action and is convinced that this action will lead to meaningful and bigger steps forward for teachers in the Netherlands”.

It’s time for SA to embrace a new healthcare model

The National Health Insurance (NHI) is not a radical shift to dismantle a functioning system, but an opportunity to review two poorly functioning ones. The public sector sees very high volumes of patients but gives them bad service and produces very poor outcomes. The private sector is modeled on low-volume, high-cost care — it uses its huge quantities of resources badly, to service very few people.

As the health market inquiry report makes clear, the large, commercial medical schemes are resisting needed reforms which, with better productivity, would lead to the convergence of the two systems. In particular, they persist with an outdated tariff system that pays for services, not outcomes, and doesn’t support team-based delivery models. This is probably because it threatens their claim payment and “managed care” models that justify a very high income. This strategy is

counterproductive for their members.
SA cannot move forward socially or economically without convergence. We need a high functioning universal healthcare system — one that can provide high volumes of quality care at low cost. One that uses all available resources, assigns funding according to need and rewards value (the best outcomes, at the lowest costs) when it is delivered.

The challenge for all stakeholders is how best to transition to such a system, one that places patients at the centre of its model, with service by multi-disciplinary teams providing continual and proactive care. The transition must be compelling and safe for clinicians. It must be an attractive vision, have realistic milestones and pose no threat to clinician income. It must produce a system that is affordable for all South Africans.

No value for money
This is what the NHI proposes to do: it has as its premise the separation of the supply of healthcare from the role of an agency purchasing it, in line with international best practice. Since 2000, medical schemes have been cast the role of purchaser, but none has taken it beyond pursuing good prices from providers. Instead of actively commissioned, new, highly productive models, they have overseen rapidly rising premiums. The health market inquiry report vividly describes how schemes have failed their members by not buying overall value for money, despite the reform road being perfectly clear.

The purchaser role put forward by the NHI is the proper one, however, with providers competing for contracts from a large purchaser based on the value they deliver. It sets out to quickly drive vast improvements in how care is delivered to bring down the cost of comprehensive medical care. It plans for a major shift towards community-based care, instead of today’s hospital plans. And it supports widespread multi-disciplinary teamwork, a much more effective and cost-efficient model.

The NHI is not a move to dismantle the commercial sector, it’s a call to action for much-needed reforms. A commercial sector that offers high-value services will provide them for an NHI purchaser, which has no preference for publicly owned, commercial or not-for-profit providers. Made subject to market competition, public-sector services will need to tremendously improve their delivery of care or face losing their funding.

We need to acknowledge that, as it currently stands, neither system produces good value, essentially because they are badly structured. They are built around the convenience of clinicians — bringing sick patients to multiple hospitals, clinics or private rooms for care. Doctors are paid and work as individuals, which hinders multi-disciplinary input and results in reactive rather than proactive healthcare. Both systems have poor process management, which cannot manage patients with multiple problems. In different ways, both have badly misaligned incentives for the practitioners who work within them.

Healthcare stakeholders must get out of the weeds and stop resisting change by disputing unspecified details of the proposed NHI. Stakeholders should be urged to rather embrace the NHI framework as a step in the right direction, one that will spur the sector to action, and out of its current stasis.

5 Essential Requisites to Surmount within the IT Sector

Information Technology (IT) sector is one in all the foremost competitive however well-paying industries in Republic of India that employs nearly three million professionals associated generates an annual revenue of roughly $150 billion in keeping with the Indian whole Equity Foundation. Despite the business size and revenue, it remains ferociously competitive amongst professionals for top paying positions.

One of the basic qualities of the IT business is that it evolves apace. Considering this, technologies like massive information, Machine Learning and AI has reworked the lives of the many finish users within the past decade. The speedy evolution of technology demands that professionals operating within the IT sector unendingly upgrade their skills to stay valuable to employers and to outmatch the competition.

The necessity of getting domain experience to achieve this sector makes it essential for current IT professionals to re-skill in domains that ar prized by technical school firms. experience in domains like information Science and internet Development can stay of high price to firms and in keeping with business estimates, there’ll be a inadequacy of over seven million qualified information Scientists and internet Developers globally by 2021.

Some essential traits professionals should absorb and learn to outmatch within the IT sector ar elaborate below:

Proficient in Writing
Professionals, United Nations agency need to achieve success within the IT sector, should knowledge to code well. moreover, IT professionals United Nations agency grasp quite one writing language have a foothold over their peers. Programming languages like Javascript are in abundant demand lately by firms, so having an intensive information of it’s priceless for associate IT skilled.

Expertise in Latest Technologies
To be competitive within the job market, skilled developers should frequently upgrade their skills. 2 of the most recent associated most powerful domains to be a skilled in, are information Science and Mean Stack technology.

Data Science helps firms structure and organize Brobdingnagian volumes of unstructured information. Ancient Business Intelligence tools ar unable to assist analyse giant volumes of such information. It’s calculable that inside a pair of years eightieth of the information collected by organizations are going to be unstructured and can got to be strip-mined victimization data science tools. Information science can facilitate organizations gain substantive insights into the strip-mined information. The goal of information Science is to feature business price to a company. the typical associational beginning earnings for information somebody’s within the U.S. is $120 K whereas in Republic of India an information Scientist could earn an annual package of government agency four hundred,000.
MEAN stack is associate signifier for MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js all of that ar a group of JavaScript-based technologies wont to develop internet applications and websites. A bonus of MEAN Stack is that each level of associate application is run employing a single language, JavaScript. The convenience of employing a single language on each level of associate application makes JavaScript economical and fashionable within the eyes of gifted internet developers.
Expertise in each these domains are often crucial for a professional’s success.

Knack for Coming up with and Execution of a Project
One of the key skills that firms rummage around for in probable hires is their ability to execute and handle a project. When it comes to an integral part of any company/organization, it becomes of utmost importance that the professionals have an eye fixed towards numerous stages and aspects concerned in it i.e. planning, ideation, management and execution. Thus each skilled should imbibe this ability to be ready to shine on top of the remainder of the ton.

Readiness to Up-skill for Longer Term
The information that the technology business amendment apace is recent hat. Whether or not one has the ability to vary with it or not, ought to be the priority for each skilled.

The advantage enjoyed by several Indian IT firms is beneath threat within the U.S. They need been idlers in adopting digital technologies. Therefore, Indian IT firms have begun to extend their overseas worker count at the expense of native Indian talent.

To outmatch, Indian IT professionals ought to up-skill and learn new technologies like AI, Blockchain, Machine Learning, and therefore the net of Things. For one to sustain within the IT business, operating professionals should become womb-to-tomb students.

Good Communication and Social Skills
Intelligence is very valued in today’s hyper-competitive company atmosphere. Organizations have completed that sensible communication skills are crucial to having the ability to figure seamlessly with shoppers and peers.

Additionally, firms these days need to rent the “leaders of tomorrow”. To do so, high IT firms look on the far side hiring people that have associate experience in an exceedingly specific technology, they appear for people that will work well with alternative professionals and lead a team once needed.
In order to essentially differentiate oneself and outmatch, one should closely endeavor to hone the ability set system inside ourselves.

What to Expect
As technologies grow a lot of subtle, bigger experience are going to be needed on the part of firms to use these technologies and add price. Professionals United Nations agency work on leading edge technology and have the proper skills are going to be in nice demand and shall command higher salaries than those while not the proper skill-set.

Exercise can help cut depression, schizophrenia symptoms

London, Oct 2 (PTI) Exercising two or three times a week can reduce symptoms of depression and schizophrenia, according to experts who suggest that a structured physical activity regime can complement standard medication and psychotherapy to better treat mental health conditions.

Based on compelling evidence from a meta-review of existing research, the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) has issued new guidelines to promote exercise as a key additional treat for mental health conditions.

A global team of scientists collaborated on the new EPA guidelines published in European Psychiatry, which suggest a regime of structured exercise should be added to standard medication and psychotherapy.

Researchers found that exercise can effectively reduce mental health symptoms, improve cognition, and strengthen cardiovascular fitness among patients with depression and schizophrenia.

Their analysis demonstrates that moderate intensity aerobic exercise, two to three times a week for at least 150 minutes, reduces symptoms of depression and schizophrenia and improves cognition and cardiorespiratory health in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

Evidence also supports combining aerobic with resistance exercise to improve outcomes for individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and major depression.

The EPA guidance was also endorsed by the International Organization of Physical Therapists in Mental Health (IOPTMH).

“Our comprehensive review provides clear evidence that physical activity has a central role in reducing the burden of mental health symptoms in people with depression and schizophrenia. Our guidelines provide direction for future clinical practice,” said Brendon Stubbs, from King’s College London in the UK.

“Specifically, we provide convincing evidence that it is now time for professionally-delivered physical activity interventions to move from the fringes of healthcare and become a core component in the treatment of mental health conditions,” said Stubbs.

Long-term outcomes and full recovery among people with mental illness are often poor, even for those receiving appropriate medications. People with mental illness also experience very poor physical health and drastic physical health inequalities, which lead to this population dying up to twenty years prematurely.

“Signs and symptoms of premature cardiovascular diseases can be identified early in the disease course of mental disorders, when patients are in their thirties to forties,” said Kai G Kahl from Hannover Medical School in Germany.

The study provides evidence that physical activity plays an important role in reducing cardiovascular symptoms and improving physical health and fitness.