key individuals at local and national level. Describes and analyses the changes in health, social work, education and the …

Reviews the past role of regional health authorities in the the British NHS and gives details of the recent changes to …

effectiveness of existing financial governance arrangements in the main providers of health services in the UK. Also considered is …

paper is to review the scientific literature on the effects of lean on the working environment and employee health and well … on both the working environment and employee health and well‐being in cases of manual work with low complexity. However …

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the effect of mobbing in workers’ health. Design … mobbed workers and use two different health indicators: the worker's perception that work affects health, and the presence of … bad health symptoms. The authors analyze the incidence of both indicators in mobbed and not mobbed workers then estimate …

One of the most serious obstacles to the development of effective health services is inadequate supply of trained … health manpower. An overview is presented of the current numbers and types of health personnel, their roles and trends over … geographical distribution of medical personnel is extremely uneven and that there is a need for fundamental changes in health …

employment rates among European older workers, taking into account a key but often neglected determinant: health status. Design …. Agents are heterogeneous according to two attributes: distance to retirement and health. The authors complete this … exhibit lower exit rates from unemployment, an effect that gets enhanced by health problems. The empirical work, based on a …

a large Italian administrative database on careers and health. The study design is based on the balancing of individuals …-term unemployment on health (RR=2.79, p <0.01). Originality/value The very large representative sample ( n =69,937) and the deep … longitudinal dimension of the data (1985-2008) allowed the authors to minimize the risks of health selection and unemployment …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of health promotion interventions in Queensland … competitive tender to renew their service contract. The research therefore provided an opportunity to examine the impact of health … collected using a longitudinal survey of workers’ health, weekly logs recording health behaviour, and a post …