Within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF; WHO), participation in work is acknowledged as one of the major areas in life (D8). Difficulties that make it impossible for the person to optimally partake in work result in participation restriction. An increasing number of people with hearing loss are seeking help for occupational problems. Various studies i...

Mary Wakefield, PhD, RNa Improving the health status of the United States is predicated on reducing and eventually eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity. Meaningfully addressing health disparities is complex work and involves considering what are, at times, seemingly unrelated factors. Recognizing this challenge, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recen...

In this paper we examine the work of Mary Parker Follett as it relates to current management practice. Specifically, we focus on her development of the concepts of integration and participation with respect to the employer–employee relationship in the context of the low-skill workforce. At their core, both of these concepts relate to the idea that management should attend to the concerns of wor...

Resource barriers can prevent capable researchers from participating in the speech and language community and can make it difficult to support learning and participation in our field at a wide variety of institutions. Sharing resources, whether software, processed data, experimental methodologies or virtual machines, can reduce the barrier to entry and potentially broaden participation in speec...

Background Immigrants from certain low- and middle-income countries are more prone to cancers attributed to viral infections in early life. Cervical cancer is caused by human papillomavirus but is highly preventable by regular screening. We assessed participation among immigrants in a population-based cervical screening programme and identified factors that predicted non-adherence within differ...

BACKGROUND Australia's health workforce is facing significant challenges now and into the future. Health Workforce Australia (HWA) was established by the Council of Australian Governments as the national agency to progress health workforce reform to address the challenges of providing a skilled, innovative and flexible health workforce in Australia. HWA developed Australia's first major, long-t...

This paper draws on the “human reliability” concept as a structure for gaining insight into the maintenance workforce assessment in a process industry. Human reliability hinges on developing the reliability of humans to a threshold that guides the maintenance workforce to execute accurate decisions within the limits of resources and time allocations. This concept offers a worthwhile point of de...