Health Caring Chair

Health-Chair Reform

In the 1 h before work, a person can use more than 50 labor devices. At work, between logging-on to logging-off, a person can remain nearly continuously in their chair. At the end of the work-day, if the home is the castle, the chair is its throne. From their throne, a person can order food, purchase a car, find a new lifepartner, and play war; all this—and more—without ever getting up. With cr...

Health and Caring – from a European perspective

As a Guest Editor of International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being’s special edition on health and caring, it is my pleasure to present four original papers that cover a broad range of caring science: from philosophy of care to its empirical practice. The origin of the papers is the authors’ engagement in the European Academy of Caring Science (EACS). EACS is a network o...

Health care, health caring, and the culture of medicine.

strategic planning in a health leadership sector: a report from unesco chair in health education, iran

strategic planning defines the formal decision of a company for its future. like all organizations, health care sectors need to prepare their strategic planning and act according to it. unesco chair in health edu­cation as a leader health sector, describes the course and steps for preparing its strategic planning based on swot analysis technique.

Caring for mom and neglecting yourself? The health effects of caring for an elderly parent.

We examine the physical and mental health effects of providing care to an elderly mother on the adult child caregiver. We address the endogeneity of the selection in and out of caregiving using an instrumental variable approach, using the death of the care recipient and sibling characteristics. We also carefully control for baseline health and work status of the adult child. We explore flexible...