Paul E. Gabriel is professor of economics, School of Business Administration, Loyola University of Chicago; and Susanne Schmitz is professor of economics, Center for Business and Economics, Elmhurst College. E-mail: pgabrie@luc. edu E-mail: susans@ elmhurst.edu Recent analyses of gender employment patterns suggest that occupational differences between men and women are a persistent presence in ...

BACKGROUND Subjective perceptions of everyday occupations are important for the well-being of people with psychiatric disabilities (PD) and are likely to vary with factors such as attending a day centre or not, activity level, self-mastery, sociodemographic and clinical factors. AIM To explore differences in subjective perceptions of occupation and activity level between day centre attendees ...

BACKGROUND Availability of lethal means is a significant risk factor for suicide. This study investigated whether occupations with greater access to lethal means had higher suicide rates than those without access, and further, whether this relationship differed for females versus males. METHODS A retrospective mortality study was conducted across the Australian population over the period 2001...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe and assess changes in participants' experiences of everyday occupations after nature-based vocational rehabilitation (NBVR), to assess changes regarding symptoms of severe stress and the rate of return to work and possible association with experiencing the occupational value of everyday occupations. METHODS The NBVR was carried out by a transdis...

Analyses of entheseal changes (EC) in identified skeletal samples employ a common research strategy based on the comparison between occupations grouped on the basis of shared biomechanical and/or social characteristics. Results from this approach are often ambiguous, with some studies that point to differences in EC between occupational samples and others failing to provide evidence of behavior...

BACKGROUND Modelling studies suggest that workplaces may be important sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in high burden countries today. Contemporary data on tuberculosis by occupation from these settings are scarce. However, historical data on tuberculosis risk in different occupations are available and may provide insight into workplace transmission. We aimed to ascertain whethe...

AIM To identify occupations with excess prevalence of osteoarthritis of the knee, hip, and hand in a nationwide survey and to compare occupations with and without excess prevalence with regard to biomechanical stresses and severity of osteoarthritis. METHODS Patients presenting with osteoarthritis of the knee, hip, or hand were recruited throughout France by their treating physician who colle...

OBJECTIVE AND METHODS Time-use methodologies have been proposed to be established research techniques when exploring aspects of daily occupations. In this study, two graphs illustrating the time arrangement of occupations as they appear in a continuous sequence were used in order to encourage individuals to reflect on their everyday life. The aim was to investigate the usefulness of a time-geog...

We investigate the problems of precondition interactions and eeect cumulations, typically caused by the concurrent execution of actions. Our analysis leads to an integration of property oriented and resource oriented approaches to the representation of action and change. We formalize our ideas by introducing an extension A ORC of the Action Description Language A C 1], and give a sound and comp...

Many who study anti-immigrant sentiment attribute negative attitudes among the native population to objective economic threats that immigrants may pose. In multilevel studies, researchers focus almost exclusively on geographic regions, such as metropolitan areas or countries, as contexts within which to examine the consequences of objective economic threats. Although geographic regions are rele...