health of organization’s employees is dependent on psychosocial factors such as job stress, considerably. job stress is related to the low quality of life, job burnout, increasing the risk of accidents and work–related injuries and cause job change and early retirement of employees. this study aimed to evaluate employees’ job stress in an industry as well as to assess its relationship by person...

We tested the validity of the “Law of Increasing State Activities” or Wagner’s Law using time series for the U.S. state-local government (SLG) real expenditure over the period 1957-2006. This period was characterized by rising SLG total expenditure and several of its sub-categories both in absolute terms and relative to state personal income. Cointegration tests of Johansen (1991) and Pesaran, ...

personal samplers or in general blunt body samplers are widely used in occupational hygiene for collecting air contaminants in the work environments. this work is part of an ongoing research into the performance evaluation of personal samplers, particularly in terms of their aerodynamic properties. velocity profiles have been measured around and within typical cylindrical sampling devices, plac...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the effects of household expenditure survey characteristics on the estimated share of a household's expenditure devoted to health. METHODS A search was conducted for all country surveys reporting data on health expenditure and total household expenditure. Data on total expenditure and health expenditure were extracted from the surveys to generate the health expenditure s...

BACKGROUND There have been no published national studies on the use in Australia of the manipulative therapies, acupuncture, chiropractic or osteopathy, or on matters including the purposes for which these therapies are used, treatment outcomes and the socio-demographic characteristics of users. METHODS This study on the three manipulative therapies was a component of a broader investigation ...