There is increasing recognition that disadvantaged work and employment conditions over the life course, including psychosocial stress at work, have negative long-term effects on health at older ages. Yet, the question whether stress at work additionally influences the likelihood of participating in voluntary work during retirement still needs to be explored. This paper studies long-term influen...

" To the '60s radical, 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' was a mantra. In these Web-happy days it could be, "Boot up, log on, download."

Background Workplace smoking cessation (SC) intervention is effective in increasing quit rate but little was known about the factors associated with voluntary SC promotion. Comprehensive smoke-free legislation, including banning smoking in all indoor area of workplaces, has been enforced in Hong Kong. This survey investigated the prevalence of company's compliance with smoke-free legislation an...

This paper presents a model in which some consumers shop on the basis of price alone, without attention to product quality. A firm may “cheat” (i.e., cut quality) to exploit these inattentive consumers. In the unique symmetric equilibrium, firms follow a mixed strategy involving both price and quality dispersion. Firms are less likely to cheat when there are fewer inattentive consumers, which i...

Using 1988 and 1991 data from nonprofit voluntary hospitals in California, we find that the vast majority of nonprofit hospitals provide community dividends in excess of the tax subsidies they receive. However, nearly 20 percent of nonprofit hospitals do not meet this standard. Further, those hospitals that do not meet the standard tend to not meet the standard over time. We recommend more expl...

1,2JESSICA E SCAIFE, MSc, FRCR, 1,3SIMON J THOMAS, PhD, FIPEM, 1,4KARL HARRISON, MSc, 1,3MARINA ROMANCHIKOVA, PhD, 1,5MICHAEL P F SUTCLIFFE, PhD, MIMechE, 1,6JULIA R FORMAN, PhD, 1,2AMY M BATES, MSc, 1,2RAJ JENA, MD, FRCR, 1,4M ANDREW PARKER, MA(Oxon), PhD and 1,2NEIL G BURNET, MD, FRCR Cancer Research UK VoxTox Research Group, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hosp...