Physician job satisfaction as a public health issue

Physician job satisfaction as a public health issue

In Hirschman's classic formulation, physicians can signal discontent with their conditions of work by "exiting" (leaving the profession or not entering it in the first place) or by giving "voice" to their concerns (e.g. complaining, protesting, bargaining collectively, or conducting work actions and strikes). This Commentary reviews the findings of a survey of Israeli neonatologists by Moshe et...

Firearm injuries as a public health issue.

I N 2011, FIREARM INJURIES ACCOUNTED FOR 32 163 deaths in the United States, nearly as many as the 34 677 fatalities from motor vehicle traffic accidents. The total includes 19 766 suicides, 11 101 homicides, and 851 deaths from the accidental discharge of firearms. Homicide is 1 of the top 5 causes of death in persons aged 1 to 44 years, and suicide is 1 of the top 5 causes of death in persons...

Illiteracy as a public health issue.

Epidemiology: Residents of Ontario learned recently that 29% of the province's grade 10 students had failed either the reading or writing component of a standardized literacy test, 1 calling into question the quality of high school education in the province as well as the validity of the standardized test used to measure this performance. Undoubtedly , postmortem debate will identify a few fata...

Physician job satisfaction related to actual and preferred job size

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction is essential for physicians' well-being and patient care. The work ethic of long days and hard work that has been advocated for decades is acknowledged as a threat for physicians' job satisfaction, well-being, and patient safety. Our aim was to determine the actual and preferred job size of physicians and to investigate how these and the differences between them infl...

Violence seen as public health issue.