This project proposal addresses whether reorganizations in the specialist health care services result in exclusion from the labour market among the employees, and if so, what characterises the groups that are most severely affected? Special attention will be paid to groups with low socioeconomic status, lowand unskilled employees, women, non-western immigrants and people with a record of sickness.

This review determines the characteristics and health-related and economic outcomes of employer-sponsored wellness programs and identifies possible reasons for their success. PubMed, ABI/Inform, and Business Source Premier databases, and Corporate Wellness Magazine were searched. English-language articles published from 2005 to 2011 that reported characteristics of employer-sponsored wellness p...

Emergency departments (EDs) face problems with crowding, delays, cost containment, and patient safety. To address these and other problems, EDs increasingly implement an approach called Lean thinking. This study critically reviewed 18 articles describing the implementation of Lean in 15 EDs in the United States, Australia, and Canada. An analytic framework based on human factors engineering and...

introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. the aim of present study is identifying and selecting key hospitals performance indicators. materials and methods: this is a descriptive and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. literature review and expert panel has been done to identify a...

Evidence of new forms of information tools via the World Wide Web increasingly indicate that business-to-consumers e-commerce models require real-time data that enable users to make informative decisions. Although the Web has provided a variety of e-health sites, these sites have offered little in the way of enabling the human resources (HR) function. This article examines health care consumers...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health relates to the use of medical help and, as a consequence, determines sick leave in the population of employees. The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship between socioeconomic variables, selected forms of positive health behaviour and subjective evaluation of health in employees. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five hundred and 99 subjects were included in the stu...

objectives this study is the first of its kind to determine the framework, advantages, and limitations of bot contracts for health care projects in selected countries. background advantages and limitations of build-operate-transfer (bot) contracts in various forms of public-private partnership (ppp) arrangements have not been studied. conclusions this study suggests that more information transp...

extractcontinuing education is not new for us because there  is emphasis on learning and continuing education  in our culture including literature, religion, and special  traditions in different ways  .as prophet muhammad (pbuh) says: “seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave” that  it is emphasis on continuous learning and continuous. in the holy quran  the word of “alam “repeatedly stated ...

expensive in the United States than in other countries, we have only a hazy picture of what those prices actually are.1 Over the past decade, however, 18 states have embraced a new approach to revealing and clarifying the pricing practices of the health care industry. They have created “all-payer claims databases” in which they compile information on the prices that all insurers, public and pri...

A review is conducted of major studies dealing with the impact of work site health promotion programs on health care costs. Inconsistent results were produced due to measurement, design, and sampling problems. A study of Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Indiana employees provided the best evidence of program-related health care cost reductions. Suggestions are made which, if implemented, should enable...