In this study we investigate some aspects of top management pay in China’s listed firms. While China has embraced many capitalist practices it still retains some vestiges of socialism and this has an impact on the way business executives are rewarded. In particular, the Chinese government wants to maintain social harmony and it believes that differences in pay between managers and workers shoul...

This paper explores the implications of Home Based Care on women‟s workload in the context of high HIV and AIDS prevalence rates in Zimbabwe as the country has experienced serious health worker migration since 2000. Health worker migration in Zimbabwe as a result of the weak performance of the economy over the years has inadvertently increased women‟s workload as more and more people adopt Home...

AIM To analyze worker burnout and the prevalence of psychiatric illness among primary care physicians, and to determine how burnout is related with sociodemographic and work-related factors. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. SETTING Primary care centers in Area 8, Madrid (central Spain).Subjects. All 244 physicians (family medicine and pediatrics) who provided care at centers in Ar...

Asthma accounts for an estimated 3 million workdays lost each year in the United States in addition to reduced worker productivity. Although asthma disease management programs are relatively common in managed care organizations, they have generally not been offered at the workplace. Seventy-six employees participated in a five-session worksite-based asthma education program. A total of 47 of 76...

This paper identifies the effect of health insurance on workers' compensation (WC) filing for young adults by implementing a regression discontinuity design using WC medical claims data from Texas. The results suggest health insurance factors into the decision to have WC pay for discretionary care. The implied instrumental variables estimates suggest a ten-percentage-point decrease in health in...

O ccupational Health Care is concerned with the prevention and, if necessary, the m anagement of diseases or injuries to which any worker, because o f his work, may be exposed. It goes even further for it deals with injuries or disease conditions which may not be directly caused by the type of work itself, but which may prevent the worker from carrying out his work satisfac­ torily. This is a v...

Objective In this Lesson from the Field, we examine changes in burden experienced by caregivers of persons who experience homelessness associated with lack employment, employability or education, and mental health challenges when care recipient receives support an outreach professional known as a social street worker (herein identified worker). addition, focus on caregivers' perception change q...

This study aimed to identify and analyze aspects regarding the preparation for the worker-user relationship in a primary health care unit in a city in the state of São Paulo-Brazil, from the perspective of welcoming. The health work process is the theoretical basis of the study; participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection techniques, and thematic analysis...