Showing 1 - 10 of 102
Transitioning from work to retirement could be either beneficial or harmful for health. We investigated the association … between transition to retirement and risk of stroke and myocardial infarction (MI). We followed US Health and Retirement Study … transition to full retirement and self- or proxy-report of either stroke or MI (CVD; 665 events). We used discrete-time survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042151
retirement status and timing. We assessed the association between caregiving intensity and retirement status for individuals aged … before age 65. Our results highlight the importance of measuring caregiving intensity and multiple paths to retirement, which … are often overlooked in the caregiving and retirement literature. They also indicate that a policy context encouraging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743773
Financial or tangible incentives are a strategy for improving health behaviours. The mechanisms of action of incentives are complex and debated. Using a multidisciplinary integrated mixed methods study, with service-user collaboration throughout, we developed a typology of incentives and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189719
Recent years have seen significant growth in both the size and profile of the humanitarian sector. However, little research has focused upon the constructions of humanitarian practice negotiated by agencies and their workers that serve to sustain engagement in the face personal challenges and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076586
reasons for weak performance seem to be 1) lack of motivation to adhere to IMCI guidelines, stemming partly from a weak belief … in the importance of following the guidelines and partly from weak intrinsic motivation, and 2) a physical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042454
; crowding out of “intrinsic motivation”; a drop in morale where schemes are viewed as unfair; and the undermining of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042570
At the start of the twenty-first century, two arms of U.S. immigration policy shape the lives of families and children. The first, enforcement practices, lead to the involuntary separation of parents and children—or the fears of this outcome—when the United States government detains and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263487
The international migration of parents from the global south raises questions about the health impacts of family separation on those who stay behind. This paper uses data collected in 2008 and 2009 for a project on Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia (CHAMPSEA) to address a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263507
absence were more common among younger than older employees, but no gender differences were observed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263539
Until recently, most studies on social capital and health have been cross-sectional making it difficult to draw causal conclusions. This longitudinal study used data from 33,621 individuals (15,822 men and 17,799 women) from the Västerbotten Intervention Program, to analyse how changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208538