Background: Unemployment among health professionals in Serbia has risen in the recent past and continues to increase. This highlights the need to understand how to change policies to meet real and projected needs. This study identifies variables that were significantly related to physician and nurse employment rates in the public healthcare sector in Serbia from 1961 to 2008 and used these to d...

The Effect of Educational Expenditures on Added Value in Industrial Sector K. Shahbaazi, Ph.D. M. Hassani, Ph.D. N. Shahbaazi Since 78% of the work force in Iranian industries consists of those holding a high school diploma or less, any investment in increasing this level of education could lead to an increase in the added value in the industrial sector. Analyses of the availabl...

In this research we consider the impact of export-driven, soybean agriculture in Mato Grosso on regional economic growth. Here we argue that the soybean sector has served as a motor to the state's economy by increasing the demand for services, housing, and goods, and by providing a source of investment capital to the non-agricultural sector. Specifically, we show that each square kilometer of s...

BACKGROUND In the United Kingdom, The Health and Occupation Reporting network (THOR) collects incidence data on work-related illness. THOR data show that the health and social work sector generates a high proportion of case reports. This study analyses the most recent data for the health and social work sector, from 2002 to 2003. METHODS Cases returned to the Occupational Physicians Reporting...

Labor law implementation has a basic role in increasing employment stability, decreasing turnover, and managing the employer-employee relation, which increases the productivity levels in any organization. In this paper, the importance of implementing the labor law in the Lebanese pharmaceutical sector, in the two main divisions, sales (medical representative) and community pharmacies is discuss...

OBJECTIVES Glucocorticoid (GC) use is widespread and associated with many adverse effects. Thus, it is important to ascertain GC utilisation patterns. In this study, we examined the annual prevalence of prescription users and amount of use of systemic GCs. DESIGN Population-wide prevalence study. SETTING The primary healthcare and hospital sectors in Denmark from 1999 to 2015. RESULTS App...

Data from the 1997 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Employer Health Insurance Survey provide new information comparing public- and private-sector employee health benefits. The federal government is ahead of other employers in adopting managed competition principles using financial incentives and consumer information to promote choosing efficient plans. Federal employees experience a $200 annual c...

The realization of sustainable development depends on the efficient use of energy resources. Energy consumption productivity and efficiency are among important indices that play a critical role in explaining the behavior of energy consumption structure of different economic sectors, which in turn, plays a key role in policy making. From among economic sectors, the agriculture sector, as an impo...

PURPOSE To determine changes in cataract surgical rate (CSR) in Fars Province from 2006 to 2010 and identify the contributions of public and private sectors. METHODS This descriptive report is part of the Iranian Cataract Surgery Survey. To determine the provincial CSR, weights of major (>3000 annual surgeries) and minor (≤3000) centers were calculated based on the number of centers chosen fo...

Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa face severe unemployment problems. These problems are due to high population growth rates and declining economic performance (Charmes, 1990). In Kenya, the population grew at an average rate of four percent annually in the 1970s and started to decline in the 1980s following concerted family planning efforts. By 1991, the annual population growth fell to 3.5%...