The Swiss health-care system (the second most expensive worldwide) is fragmented into 26 cantonal authorities for a population of 7.5 million. Cantons differ in policy, legislation and structure. Health insurance is compulsory although contributions vary greatly between cantons. A recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) pointed out that weak governance ...

BACKGROUND This study compares differences in quality-adjusted life expectancy across the eight original National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) industry sectors. METHODS Data from the 1997 to 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were used to estimate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for all workers and by NORA sector. Differences in QALYs were calculated and translated into e...

There is considerable evidence that the goal of health care has moved beyond mere survival to positive health. The surgeon general's report emphasized the necessity to modify social environments by reducing risk-taking behaviors and life-styles. The increased attention the American people now pay to exercise, nutrition, environmental health, and occupational safety reveals the interest and conc...

objective: oxidative stress that damages proteins result in aging and age related diseases. the aim of this study is to determine the effect of tocotrienol rich fraction (trf) on the expression of proteins in oxidative stress-induced caenohabditis elegans (c.elegans) which has homologous genes to humans. methods: the worms were treated with trf prior to, after and continuously in separate group...

Although economic models of training decisions are framed in terms of a company's calculation of the costs and benefits of such training, empirical work hss never been able to test this model directly on company behavior. This paper utilizes a unique database to analyze the determinants of the variation in formal training across businesses and the impact of such training on labor productivity. ...

This paper explores conceptions of rural-tourist landscapes in late nineteenth century Vermont. Traditionally, scholarly and popular discourse about rural tourism have identified nostalgia and the tourist’s search for harmonious pastoral landscapes as dominant themes in tourist promotions, and as dominant motivations for tourist travel. This paper adds alternative perspectives to this discourse...

In recent decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) as part of socially sustainable business organizations operations has become a common practice across developed and developing countries. The objective of this mini review is to reflect on the potential role that CSR might have on the health of stakeholders (employees and society in general). We suggest that there is an opportunity for bu...

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants. This is done by strengthening individual skills and capabilities and the capacity of groups to change the many conditions, particularly the social and economic causes, that affect health (1–3). The value of health promotion has recently been reaffirmed (4, 5). It is a core function of ...