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This study provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of adult cycle training in delivering changes in cycling and …-administered questionnaires completed pre-intervention (before the first training session) and again 3 months after the first training session …. Just under half of those responding to both surveys (47%) reported cycling more frequently after the training than …
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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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This article describes the Canadian Hospital Executive Simulation System (CHESS), which has been developed by two of the authors, Knotts and Parrish, in co‐operation with the Canadian College of Health Service Executives; the key features of CHESS are then outlined. The article also describes...
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Addresses the workplace issues posed by HIV/AIDS within the hotel and catering industry. In particular, examines the theoretical risks which may be peculiar to organizations in this industrial sector. Suggests that the “objective” risk assessment provided by “experts” is not necessarily...
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surveys; maintaining employees' good health and sense of well‐being; wide opportunities for training and development; and …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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