India, April 4 -- Monash University researchers have unlocked the blueprint of how Australia's health system can make better use of antenatal lifestyle coaching to improve patient outcomes and dismantle entrenched health inequality.
The study, published in the journal Value in Health, found focusing resources on women above the healthy weight range offers the greatest health gains, and delivering programs routinely through public hospitals is the most powerful way to close the health inequality gap.
Diet and physical activity coaching is already a proven evidence tool for preventing conditions like gestational diabetes and, consequently, type 2 diabetes. This research is the first to show how delivery of these programs should be prioritis...