background: according to the important role of health care apprentice program on medical students’ performance, especially in relation with social accountability of medical education, it is attempted to assess efficacy of health care apprentice program on the level of medical students’ knowledge and skills in the context of primary health care at babol university of medial sciences    methods: ...

The first challenge in developing an effective health promotion program for employees is the performance of a health needs assessment on the target population. In an effort to meet this challenge, 600 corporate employees were surveyed and compared with respect to the allotment of time to work, leisure, and self/family care activities; health risk factors; perceived health; and activity satisfac...

Some employers are implementing reference-pricing benefit designs, which establish limits on the amount they will pay for some procedures covered by employer-sponsored insurance. Employees are required to pay the difference between the employer’s contribution limit and the actual price received by the hospital. These initiatives encourage patients to select low-price facilities and indirectly e...

challenges that occur during planning, development, implementation, and evaluation efforts. In this commentary, we focus on implementation challenges faced by employers— issues that must be addressed after an organization has made a commitment to offering a worksite health promotion program. Of course, initial support from top management must be secured. But evidence suggests that management su...

After the Japanese government initiated the Total Health Promotion Plan in 1988, which included psychological consultations at worksites, the actual number of such consultations carried out was extremely low. In 1997, the Ministry of Labour found that only 26.5 % of companies performed mental health care programs, and that where programs did exist, they consisted of sport/recreation (52.6%), in...

OBJECTIVE To study the impact of cost of treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) on the preference of men with urethritis to seek care in the informal sector. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A random sample of young men from the general population of Yaoundé and Douala, Cameroon, and of employees of a Yaoundé factory underwent a structured interview on the occurrence of STD-related complaints...

Provision for grievance arbitration has been found in the majority of union contracts in the health care industry. While experience with arbitration is limited in health care compared to the private sector, interest in the process has been growing (perhaps along with the parallel growth of unionization). Arbitration is the terminal step in the grievance procedure, as arbitration awards are enfo...

Low back injuries are frequent among employees in the health-care sector. The combined effect of sudden unexpected trunk loading (SL) and accumulated fatigue of the erector spinae muscles (ES) has been suggested as a risk factor for low back injuries. SL incidents such as slips and falls are common among employees in the health care sector who handles patients (Radebold et al, 2000). Andersen e...

objective: this study aims at conducting a systematic review of the researches performed to determine case finding rates throughout the integration of mental health services into phc over recent twenty years . method : through electronic search, major national and international databases including pubmed, psychinfo, and embase were investigated. all original studies and researches in persian or...