journal of law, medicine & ethics Introduction State health departments are at the core of the United States (U.S.) public health infrastructure. Surveillance to monitor trends in disease and injury; the development, coordination, and delivery of services; and public education are some of the core functions health department employees oversee every day. As such, agencies and their employees are...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this research was to learn about nursing home employees' knowledge and perspectives on mandatory reporting of elder abuse. DESIGN Mailed questionnaire and personal interviews. SETTING Two nursing facilities in Iowa. PARTICIPANTS All employees of the two nursing facilities. MEASUREMENTS A 28-item questionnaire that included questions on demographics, personal ex...

Background: Stigma and discrimination against people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS undermines the effectiveness of national efforts to prevent and control the HIV epidemic. In the context of Tanzania, evidence on the incidence of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination from the perspective of the employees and employers is limited. Objective: To provide an assessment of the pervasiven...

We measure the earnings and welfare losses experienced by displaced employees of the Ecuadorian Central Bank (BCE), and link these losses to individual characteristics such as age, gender, education, seniority and wage in the public sector. Data are from a survey of BCE employees we ran fifteen to eighteen months after separation, including subjective evaluations of well-being in addition to in...

INTRODUCTION Children and their families use a lot of different services, which poses challenges in terms of cooperation between service providers. The purpose of the study was to evaluate and compare the functioning of this cooperation between services for children and families in Finland's mainland municipalities from the viewpoints of employees and managers. METHOD The study was carried ou...

Perceived organizational justice means the degree to which the initiatives of an organization toward employees is perceived to be fair. The main objective of this study was the examination of demographic determinants of organizational perceived justice in a hospital setting. This research was done through cross-sectional method in an educational hospital of Yazd, Iran in 20013. The research pop...

One-on-one interviews and focus-group meetings were held at 20 organizations that had implemented a behavior-based safety (BBS) process in order to find reasons for program successes/failures. A total of 31 focus groups gave 629 answers to six different questions. A content analysis of these responses uncovered critical information for understanding what employees are looking for in a BBS progr...