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Home health aides’ experiences of their occupational health: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 2020
Home health aides (HHA) have high sickness absence while the need for home care services is rapidly growing. The aim of this study was to derive new conceptual understandings by identifying, describing and interpreting key concepts across qualitative ...
Sunniva Grønoset Grasmo, Ingeborg Frostad Liaset, S. Redzovic   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental health nurses’ encounters with occupational health services [PDF]

Occupational Medicine, 2018
Staff well-being is vital to the functioning of the UK National Health Service (NHS). Mental health nurses (MHNs) with personal experience of mental illness can offer a professionally and personally informed insight into the occupational health (OH) service offered by their employer.To investigate MHNs' views of OH provision in the NHS, based on their ...
Oates, J., Jones, J., Drey, N.
openaire   +6 more sources

Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Luis A. Millán‐Tudela   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiological and performance indicators for occupational health services: a feasibility study in Belgium

BMC Health Services Research, 2014
BackgroundIn many European countries, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) providers report their activities and results annually. Ideally, this report should offer an overview of their activities and of the outcome regarding occupational health and ...
L. Godderis, K. Johannik, G. Mylle, S. Bulterys, G. Moens   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Analysis of hospital costs for robotic and open pancreatectomy incurred during the implementation of a robotic pancreatectomy program at a cancer center

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
In this matched cohort study, total costs associated with robotic pancreatectomy were significantly lower than those associated with open pancreatectomy. High intraoperative costs associated with robotic pancreatectomies can be mitigated by other hospital related factors such as length of stay, number of medication prescriptions, and standardization of
Heather G. Lyu, Yuki Hirata, Pamela W. Lu, Jess E. Maxwell, Rebecca A. Snyder, Michael P. Kim, Hop Tran Cao, Ching‐Wei D. Tzeng, Matthew H. G. Katz, Naruhiko Ikoma   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Fuzzy Risk Assessment Approach Based on Z‐Numbers for Enhancing Safety and Human‐Robot Collaboration in Automotive Sector

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A novel risk assessment approach that integrates the fuzzy set theory and Z‐numbers with multicriteria decision‐making techniques (Delphi, decision‐making trial and evaluation laboratory, analytic network process, and VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) to manage uncertainty and prioritize human–robot collaboration risks. A real‐world
Emine Bozkus, İhsan Kaya
wiley   +1 more source

Telemedical Coaching Improves Long-Term Weight Loss in Overweight Persons: A Randomized Controlled Trial

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, 2018
Background. Lifestyle interventions have shown to be effective when continuous personal support was provided. However, there is lack of knowledge whether a telemedical-approach with personal coaching contributes to long-term weight losses in overweight ...
Kerstin Kempf, Martin Röhling, Monika Stichert, Gabriele Fischer, Elke Boschem, Jürgen Könner, Stephan Martin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Active and passive work breaks during simulated laparoscopy among laparoscopic surgeons: study protocol for a controlled, randomised cross-over laboratory trial

BMJ Open, 2020
Introduction Laparoscopy has partially replaced open surgery due to the lower infection rate for the patient and hence better and shorter recovery. However, the surgeon’s physical load is higher due to longer duration static and awkward body postures ...
Monika A Rieger, Benjamin Steinhilber, Tessy Luger, Rosina Bonsch, Bernhard Krämer, Robert Seibt   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

[Current status of occupational health activities and the way that occupational health services should be offered to small- and medium-scale enterprises].

Journal of UOEH, 2013
Activating occupational safety and health activities among Small- and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs) is a major issue because more than 80% of Japanese workers belong to these enterprises, in which the number of workers are less than 300 people. However,
Kotaro Kayashima
semanticscholar   +1 more source