Agriculture is known to be a dangerous industry in which to work.1 In fact, in the late 1980s, the National Coalition for Agricultural Safety and Health stated, “America’s most productive work force is being systematically liquidated by an epidemic of occupational disease and traumatic death and injury in the face of diminishing local and Federal resources.”2 Researchers have found agricultural...

Most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which provides them with group health coverage even if they retire before Medicare eligibility. We study the impact of retiree health coverage on the labor supply of public sector workers between the ages of 55 and 64. We find that retiree health coverage raises the probability of stopping full time work by 4.3 percentage points ...

background advances in burn care over the past 50 years have brought about remarkable improvement in mortality rates such that survival has become an expected outcome even in patients with extensive injuries. although these improvements have occurred in all age groups, survival in older adults still lags far behind that in younger cohorts. this study determines the outcomes of older adults with...

P UBLIC interest and attention have recently been focused on the provision of disability retirement as well as age retirement benefits in industrial pension plans as a result of the series of collective bargaining agreements concluded in a number of major industries in the fall of 1949. The first of these agreements was signed on September 28, 1949, by the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to survey human resources personnel about how their northeastern Ontario workplaces assist employees with cancer. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING This cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2007 to April 2008. Surveys were sent to 255 workplaces in northeastern Ontario with 25 or more employees, and 101 workplaces responded (39.6% response rate)....