Oncologist who stood up to US insurance companies lost work
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[Occupational accidents: social insurance costs and work days lost].
OBJECTIVE To estimate the proportion of occupational accident benefits granted within the total for health-related social security benefits, viewing the costs according to benefit type and the impact on productivity according to work days lost. METHODS Records of benefit decisions from the National Benefits System of the National Social Security Institute for the State of Bahia in 2000 were u...
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results gained from primary attenders at a tate review clinic after shoulder surgery may not be representative of the outcome: the average self-assessment of the non-attenders was lower by one class. Age differences have been shown to affect the self assessment of health (Idler 1993). In this study, however, with an average age of 5 1.1 years among attenders and 48.8 years in non-attenders, thi...
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This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. To complement this month’s theme of the Bulletin, Elisa Ong and Stanton A. Glantz review the 1981 paper by Takeshi Hirayama on the risk of lung cancer from passive smoking. The original paper is repro...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.325.7356.167/a