aim: smoking is the first factor of diseases, and death, and one of the major health problems all over the world.the aim of this study was validating the persian version of short-form decisional balance scale to smoke cessation in iranian workers.method: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 218 workers from automobile manufactory in bam city (iran) in 2016 using convenient sampling.fi...

OBJECTIVE To compare 12-month healthcare costs between employees with versus without diagnosed opioid abuse within 12 months after an injury-related workers' compensation (WC) or short-term disability (STD) claim. METHODS Retrospective study using 2003 to 2014 US insurance claims linked to administrative data on WC/STD claims. Multivariable models compared healthcare costs between employees w...

Despite the popularity of financial compensation as a means for addressing trust violations, the question whether (more) money can indeed buy trust back remains largely unexplored. In the present research, we focus on the role of violation type and compensation size. The results of a scenario study and a laboratory experiment show that financial compensation can effectively promote the restorat...

Pseudohypacusis or the intentional feigning of hearing loss is a challenging situation in the medicolegal evaluation of hearing levels. Few studies have been performed on predisposing factors that make compensation claims susceptible to malingering. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between educational level and frequency of pseudohypacusis in a group of medico-legal cl...

" Any ' Insured Person' who may be a patient in this Institution has only to apply to the Sister of the Ward in which he is being treated, for a certificate (which is granted free), as often as his Approved Society requires it. This certificate is quite sufficient under Memorandum No. 211, paras. 38 and 39, issued by the Insurance Commissioners, to enable any Approved Society to pay sick benefi...

Kartini's Orthodontic Practice is a company engaged in the specialized services field of dental health. Service that offered by Kartini to correct position teeth irregular, monitor development and growth gums, as well interpreting results examinations existing diagnoses,dental care, such scaling, overcoming cavities,tooth extraction, others. The problem occurs this clinic doctors often experien...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have completed an estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. The amendment discussed in this letter (hereafter called “the reconciliation proposal”) is the one that was made public on March 18, 2010, as ...

Helioseismology has allowed us to infer the rotation in the greater part of the solar interior with high precision and resolution. The results show interesting conflicts with earlier theoretical expectations, indicating that the the Sun is host to complex dynamical phenomena, so far hardly understood. This has important consequences for our ideas about the evolution of stellar rotation, as well...