Countries in transition, such as Serbia, have been going through obligatory system reforms, including the reform of the healthcare system. As a rule, occupational health becomes marginalized by the authorities who decide on medical care. In spite of the fact that this branch of medicine cares for working population that mostly carries the burden of transition, when material situation equals the...

was introduced in the late 1970s as a new approach to providing rehabilitation services at community level. Over the years, the concept of CBR has widened to include much more than just medical rehabilitation. These days, organisations providing CBR aim to empower people with disabilities to enjoy education, health, and wellbeing, and to participate fully in social, cultural, civil, and politic...

Understanding the impact of the environment on the participation of people with aphasia depends on one’s perspective. A long-term perspective provides a unique insight into the myriad of ways in which the environment can influence the participation of people living with aphasia over decades. In this article, the authors present the real-life story of “Hank,” who has lived with aphasia for more ...

An ability to understand and predict financial wellbeing for individuals is of interest to economists, policy designers, financial institutions, and the individuals themselves. According to the Nilson reports, there were more than 3 billion credit cards in use in 2013, accounting for purchases exceeding US$ 2.2 trillion, and according to the Federal Reserve report, 39% of American households we...

Widespread use of incarceration in the US, coupled with high rates of inmate fatherhood, has raised concerns for the wellbeing of more than two million affected children. The deleterious and long term effects of incarceration on men's financial and relationship stability are well-established. Incarceration also compromises family material wellbeing, and partners are at risk of hardship and stre...

CSHP is visionary in planning its future and that of hospital pharmacy practice. Two CSHP representatives participated in the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI) Summit jointly sponsored by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the ASHP Foundation in late 2010 (www.ashp.org/PPMI). The goal of this initiative is to significantly advance the health and well-being of p...

OBJECTIVES Recently, a model of reminiscence and well-being has emerged in which reminiscence functions have been shown to predict both the mental and physical health of middle-aged and older adults. Yet this model has thus far been verified only with North American, Western European, and Australian participants. This study was undertaken to compare the latent structure of responses between Can...

The Mexican banking crisis of 1994]1995 has widely been interpreted as the victim of the balance-of-payments crisis, rather than its cause. After all, Mexican banks had been enjoying high capitalization ratios, deemed to be more than sufficient to deal with the increased risk of non-performing loans. This paper, however, suggests that to a large extent Mexican accounting practices } rather than...

This study follows 40 older single-mother families created with the aid of sperm donation using either insemination or in vitro fertilization. The study is based on qualitative data obtained from the mothers 3 years after a previous study with these families. The mean age of the mothers at this time was about 47 years and of the children 7 years. The findings provide insights into the mothers' ...