Perceived stigma and organizational barriers to care (stigma/BTC) can influence the decision to seek help for military personnel when they are suffering from mental health problems. We examined the relationship between stigmatizing beliefs, perceived BTC, and probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 23,101 UK military personnel deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq both during and after dep...

This is the first paper on suicidal ideation and attempts among ambulance personnel. This study aimed to investigate levels of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among ambulance personnel, and to identify important correlates and the factors to which ambulance personnel attribute their serious suicidal ideation. A comprehensive nationwide questionnaire survey of 1,180 operational ambulance ...

BACKGROUND In many countries occupational health care system is in change. Occupational health studies are mainly focused on occupational health substance and content. This study offers new perspectives on municipal OHS and its operations from management perspective. AIM The aim of this study is to analyse how New Public Management (NPM) doctrines are applied in the Finnish occupational healt...

Abstract The service of specialized and special forces the Federal Armed Forces police is characterized by complex situations. Such personnel often face numerous difficulties extreme danger experience periods high stress when fulfilling their tasks. In context social technological changes, it necessary to explore individual components management in further detail, i.e., prevention, control, cop...

introduction: hospitals as important sector of health care system has special location in health economic science. increasing of the operational costs in hospital and limitation in financing cause that hospital as an economic firm use cost analysis and prepare effective using of resource and boost productivity. therefore this study was conducted to calculate daily- patient hotel cost in hospita...

Training personnel to operate extremely complex and expensive equipment requires a large monetary investment and takes lengthy periods of time. It goes without saying that careful planning is of the outmost importance. Such is the case for military pilots. The Pilot Production, Absorption, Retention Simulation (PARSim) model that was developed by the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis...

Although internal control systems in firms aim to provide reasonable assurance regarding objectives related operations, reporting, and compliance, research focusing on operational efficiency is limited. This study investigates the impact of both quantitative qualitative investments personnel a firm’s efficiency. Utilizing fixed-effect regression model, Heckman (1979) two-stage least squares pro...

Risk management provides the most important single framework for both strategic and tactical decision making across the US Military. The annual statement of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Congress now uses notions of likelihood and consequence to assess the nation’s military preparedness. At the same time, pressure from the US General Accounting Office and the Quadrennial Defense ...