a ttitude among urmia medical university health workers about patient safety     khalilzadeh h [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, mohaddesi h [3] , zare fazlollahi z [4]     received: 17 jun , 2013 accepted: 14 aug , 2013     abstract   background & aims : today, patient safety is a critical factor in the quality of health care. the main problem of health care providers in improving their quality...

This study uses the HERO database in which 46,026 employees met all inclusion criteria for the analysis. The purpose was to assess the relationship between modifiable health risks and total health care expenditures for a large group of employees. This study is different than Research Project Two which examined individual health care expenditures as the outcome. Here the outcome is the total cos...

M ost businesses would seize an opportunity to attain high-quality health promot ion services that help keep employees healthy and result in fewer days lost to illness or injur)' and reduced medical claims and hospitalizations. Hut four years ago Everett, WA-based Providence Hospital ran into roadblocks when staff approached Pugct Sound businesses about contracting for the hospital's health-rel...

The present study was to describe the input/process and evaluate the effectiveness of Taiwanese Workplace Health Promotion Initiatives based on employees' perspectives. This study employed a cross-sectional design by a structured questionnaire that was completed by 842 employees in 30 workplaces that participated in the Taiwan Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) Initiatives which supported by Mini...

Companies and organizations nationwide struggle to find the best way to address the complex, multifaceted challenges involved in providing their employees with access to necessary--and often expensive--medications. The introduction of new bio-derived medications has compounded these challenges. Biotech medications offer a high level of therapeutic value, but do so at a high monthly cost per pat...

PURPOSE There is debate to what extent employers are entitled to interfere with the lifestyle and health of their workers. In this context, little information is available on the opinion of employees. Within the framework of a workplace health promotion (WHP) program, moral considerations among workers were investigated. METHODS Employees from five companies were invited to participate in a W...

BACKGROUND Although the prevalence of metabolic syndrome has been studied in nationally representative populations, little is known about its prevalence specifically among working adults. Because corporations are often the primary payers of health-care costs in the United States, they have a vested interest in knowing the impact of metabolic syndrome in employed individuals. METHODS A total o...