Expanding Our Knowledge of Faculty Well-Being

Staff and Faculty Health and Well-being Program

The spectrum of phytoestrogens in nature: our knowledge is expanding.

The classical phytoestrogens, so far known, constitute a group of plant-derived compounds which include mainly isoflavones, lignans, coumestanes, stilbenes and the flavonoids quercetin and kaempherol. The discovery of many more novel estrogen-like compounds in the plant kingdom demonstrates that the spectrum of phytoestrogens in nature is expanding. The classical as well as the novel phytoestro...

Is 'modern culture' bad for our health and well-being?

Evidence is accumulating that well-being in high-income societies may be static or in decline. One influential theory argues that this is because 'modern' societies are influenced by values of materialism, individualism and consumerism. Does this intellectual critique resonate with ordinary people? This article reports on interviews with purposefully selected groups in Scotland, where the relev...

Innovation: from the Creation of Knowledge to National Well-being

Although the NSF has not yet embraced a single definition for innovation, workshop participants generally used the term in a way that suggested a focus on the processes and mechanisms for producing commercial applications of new knowledge rather than on the products or outputs from these processes.1 In fact, there seemed to be broad support in the workshop for the proposition that innovation dr...

Survey the level of well-being and Psychometric characteristics of hospital nurses’ well-being at work

Background and Aims: mental health problems is common among nurses, because they must face to stressors of their workplace which include work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, financial problems, lack of vacation time, pressures of work, patient communication frameworks  and painful experiences of patients. Based on previous researches psychological resiliency can help them to appro...