participation is to increase people's awareness and such these programs have brought success for iranian society. for example, the mobilization of the global polio eradication, healthy city project, healthy village project, mobilization of rural sanitation projects and health project. in this regard the partnership program has been successful experience of health volunteers, and provide a ...

Impediments to worker mobility serve to mitigate the attrition of healthy individuals from employer-sponsored insurance pools, thereby creating a de facto commitment mechanism that allows for more complete insurance of health risks than would be possible in the absence of such frictions. Using data on health insurance contracts obtained from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, we find...

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O ccupational Health Care is concerned with the prevention and, if necessary, the m anagement of diseases or injuries to which any worker, because o f his work, may be exposed. It goes even further for it deals with injuries or disease conditions which may not be directly caused by the type of work itself, but which may prevent the worker from carrying out his work satisfac­ torily. This is a v...

This paper investigates the impact of a corporate wellness program on worker productivity using a panel of objective health and productivity data from 111 workers in five laundry plants. Although almost 90% of companies use wellness programs, existing research has focused on cost savings from insurance and absenteeism. We find productivity improvements based both on program participation and po...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to translate the original Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to be age and culturally specific for American Indian (AI) youth. METHODS Tribally enrolled members on 2 Montana Indian reservations conducted focus groups and interviews to discuss community members' perspectives of factors that enc...

This paper mathematically analyses the varying magnitude of production loss, which may occur due to idle time (inprocess waiting time and traveling time) on a linear walking worker assembly line. Within this flexible and reconfigurable assembly system, each worker travels down the line carrying out each assembly task at each station; and each worker accomplishes the assembly of a unit from star...