BACKGROUND Nursing is an emotionally demanding profession and deficiencies in nurses' mental wellbeing, characterised by low vitality and common mental disorders, have been linked to low productivity, absenteeism and presenteeism. Part of a larger study of nurses' health, the aim of this paper was to describe the mental health status and related characteristics of nurses working in two acute me...

BACKGROUND Although light and moderate alcohol drinkers are likely to have better subjective health, the sub-scales for subjective health have not been well documented. METHODS We studied 4,521 male workers aged 25 yr and older with no history of cancer or cardiovascular disease, in 12 occupational groups in Japan. Data were from the High-risk and Population Strategy for Occupational Health P...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test a multicomponent intervention to prevent and treat osteoporosis in breast cancer survivors. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational. SETTING Midwestern urban and rural sites. SAMPLE 27 postmenopausal breast cancer survivors between the ages of 42-65 who had completed treatment, except for tamoxifen, and were not candidates for hormone replacement therapy. METHODS Bo...

-Forest health, vitality, and productivity are interrelated and are maintained by using sound forest management. There are some standard indicators that are measured to assess the extent and severity of damage inflicted by biotic and abiotic agents. Assessment of these indicators using affordable methods is a subjective process. A video rangefinder instrument is presented here as an advance tow...

At baseline, subjects with gynecomastia scored statistically significantly less favorably than controls in five SF-36 domains (general health, vitality, social functioning, role-emotional, and mental health), the RSES, and the EAT-26 (p<0.05 for all). By 6 months follow-up, postoperative subjects were scoring similarly to controls in four of the aforementioned SF-36 domains (vitality, social fu...