We searched databases and used various online resources to identify and systematically review all articles on occupational psychiatric disorders among Korean workers published in English and Korean before 2009. Three kinds of occupational psychiatric disorders were studied: disorders related to job stress and mental illness, psychiatric symptoms emerging in victims of industrial injuries, and o...

themselves and with industry is worthy of consideration. Compulsion by meticulous enforcement of legislation may lead to reticence on the part of certain managements to provide welfare measures. This may also lead in certain instances to failure to cooperate with official agencies. An important approach is to stimulate the concept of promotion of industrial welfare and health, irrespective of l...

During the last few years, researchers in Arti cial Intelligence have become increasingly concerned with the problem of designing architectures for intelligent systems that are required to operate in complex dynamic environments. The potential applications are both diverse and economically important|for example, the management of air tra c and other transport services; the control of telecommun...

themselves and with industry is worthy of consideration. Compulsion by meticulous enforcement of legislation may lead to reticence on the part of certain managements to provide welfare measures. This may also lead in certain instances to failure to cooperate with official agencies. An important approach is to stimulate the concept of promotion of industrial welfare and health, irrespective of l...

目的．中皮腫患者は労災保険制度の申請ができる．しかし職業ばく露の評価は医師の負担になっており，石綿ばく露調査の体制において現場の医師の対応は明らかにされていない．方法．中皮腫患者90名に対して質問紙調査を行い，労災保険制度の申請（認定）を目的変数とし，「医師の対応」3項目と「労災保険制度の申請理由」5項目を説明変数としてステップワイズ法による回帰分析を行った．結果．患者は医師からの相談窓口への紹介が増加した場合，労災保険制度申請の増加がみいだされた（b=0.276，t［88］=2.336，p=0.021，β=0.242）．また患者会からの助言・指摘が増加した場合も労災保険制度申請の増加がみいだされた（b=0.569，t［88］=5.373，p＜0.05，β=0.497）．結論．労災保険制度の申請には医師が患者に対して相談窓口に紹介することが重要であり，医療機関における相談支援体制を整...

During the late 70's and early 80's in Mexico, as in the rest of Latin-America, sanitary policies were directed to support the growth of the private sector of health care at the expense of the public sector. This work analyzes the evolution of the health insurance market as a part of the privatization process of health care. The analysis based on economic data, provides the political profile be...

IT is a pleasure to have the opportunity of reviewing a Government Publication which is a report to the Minister of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland, by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of Queen's University of Belfast. It is the story, clearly and succinctly narrated, of a scientific survey into an important industrial hazard by Professor Pemberton and members of...

introductions: due to versatility and wide range of health care services, the social care insurance organizations can not afford undertaking all health care services for the insured. this is why additional services are taken over by private or commercial health care insurance companies. such services are known as complementary insurance. in this study , it was decided to investigate the satisfa...