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Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than "like" employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a model...
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CEP research highlights the potential role of improving the quality of hospital management for raising productivity in the UK healthcare sector
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can provide better health knowledge and general education to parents, a private healthcare sector can arise to meet demand … treatment services, we find that public and private health systems are "equally unequal", that is, both tend to favor children … facts contrast with a common view that a much-expanded public health sector is necessary to reduce child mortality. Instead …
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At present six million people are suffering from clinical depression or anxiety disorders, but only a quarter of them are in treatment. NICE Guidelines prescribe the offer of evidence-based psychological therapy, but they are not implemented, due to lack of therapists within the NHS. We...
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Personal Social Health and Economic (PSHE) education is a non-statutory school subject designed to facilitate the … delivery of a number of key competencies relevant to health, safety and wellbeing. As well as contributing to learning … classroom relating to physical, mental, sexual and emotional health and safety. This paper reviews a programme of research aimed …
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This paper evaluates the effect of smoking bans in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers and contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes. Exploiting data on cotinine - a metabolite of nicotine - as well as state and time variation in anti-smoking policies across US...
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's pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …
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All the UK's major parties agree on ring-fencing foreign aid spending at current levels, even while the country's dire financial situation requires sharp cuts to other budgets. Peter Boone draws on the evidence on aid effectiveness to argue that our focus should not be on the amount we spend but...
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Most estimates of the cost of crime focus on victims. Yet it is plausible that an even larger cost of crime occurs via its indirect impact on the mental wellbeing of non-victims. To test how crime affects individuals' mental outcomes, we exploit detailed panel data on mental wellbeing, allowing...
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Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth assess the long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the people of Ukraine.
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