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New England Journal of Medicine, 2011
Of the $2.6 trillion spent in 2010 on U.S. health care, 56% consisted of wages for health care workers. Health care, as currently designed and delivered, is very labor-intensive. Yet unlike other sectors, health care has seen no recent gains in labor productivity.
Robert, Kocher, Nikhil R, Sahni
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Of the $2.6 trillion spent in 2010 on U.S. health care, 56% consisted of wages for health care workers. Health care, as currently designed and delivered, is very labor-intensive. Yet unlike other sectors, health care has seen no recent gains in labor productivity.
Robert, Kocher, Nikhil R, Sahni
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Health and Child Labor in Agriculture
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2007Background Seventy percent of child laborers—more than 150 million girls and boys under 18—are agricultural workers. They are harshly exploited, toiling in poor to appalling conditions, performing dangerous jobs with little or no pay, and are deprived of an education.
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The Division Of Laborers: Allied Health Professions
International Journal of Health Services, 1973As health services have become hospital-centered, many specialized health occupations have been created. The author maintains that these allied health occupations conflict with the medical profession for occupational territory, and that the development of these subordinate occupations has been controlled by the medical profession to its own benefit ...
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Child Labor and Health: Problems and Perspectives
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2000Child labor remains a widespread problem. Although it can have positive effects, in some situations it has negative effects on health and development of the children. Although mainly a problem in developing countries, it is also possible to find child workers, some working in hazardous activities, in developed countries.
A G, Fassa +3 more
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Labor Markets and Health: An Integrated Life Course Perspective
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 2016 Current work and health research is fragmented, focusing on jobs, exposures, specific worker groups, work organization, or employment contracts. An emphasis on the labor market in framing the work and health relationship conceptualizes work not only as an exposure that increases or lessens health risk but also as a life course experience that is ...
Christopher McLeod +2 more
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Health care reform and the labor market
Social Science & Medicine, 1996Reform is probably the most frequently used term when discussing health care systems. The literature is broad and general, with topics ranging from reasons for carrying out reform, through discussion and the meaning of the reform, to discussions of methods for reform in developing countries.
L, Durán-Arenas, M, López-Cervantes
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Husband's health and wife's labor supply
Journal of Health Economics, 1984This paper examines the labor supply response of the wife to deterioration in the husband's health. Unlike past cross-sectional studies, responses over time are directly examined through the use of longitudinal data. The empirical results suggest that the magnitude and direction of the response depend crucially on the attractiveness of transfers which ...
M C, Berger, B M, Fleisher
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Dynamics of health and labor market risks
Journal of Health Economics, 2009While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labor market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labor market instability is not well understood.
Peter, Haan, Michal, Myck
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Gender Hierarchies in the Health Labor Force
International Journal of Health Services, 1987Rapid growth and increasing diversity characterize trends of the U.S. health labor force in recent decades. While these trends have promoted change on many different fronts of the health system, hierarchical organization of the health work force remains intact. Workers continue to be stratified by class and race.
I H, Butter +3 more
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Journal of Public Health, 2019
Objective To summarize current evidence on the impacts of child labor on physical and mental health.Methods We searched PubMed and ScienceDirect for studies that included participants aged 18 years or less, conducted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and reported quantitative data.
Ibrahim, Abdalla +4 more
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Objective To summarize current evidence on the impacts of child labor on physical and mental health.Methods We searched PubMed and ScienceDirect for studies that included participants aged 18 years or less, conducted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and reported quantitative data.
Ibrahim, Abdalla +4 more
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