BACKGROUND Although ageing workers face specific health and safety concerns, conflicting evidence exists regarding the effects of age on workplace injury rates and workers' compensation claims. AIMS To examine injury and workers' compensation claim rates by age and injury type in an aluminium smelter over a 9-year period. METHODS Routinely collected data for workplace injuries and workers' ...

In order to compete in a financially sensitive health care system, family systems-based treatments must demonstrate effective clinical results as well as cost-effectiveness. Cost-effectiveness research can demonstrate to health care insurers and policy makers which treatments are viable options for implementation. The present literature review identified eight cost-effectiveness family-based su...

OBJECTIVE To identify and quantify attributes that lead to unanticipated cost escalation in workers' compensation claims. METHODS We constructed four claim categories: low initial reserve/low cost, migrated catastrophic (low initial reserve/high cost), high initial reserve/low cost, and catastrophic (high initial reserve/high cost). To assess the attributes associated with the increased cost ...

We study how a manufacturer’s recycled content claim decision is impacted by demand for recycled content through environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) programs and supply uncertainty. We model a manufacturer making a recycled content commitment that can commit to a minimum recycled content that holds for every period (product specific claim), or an average recycled content across periods ...

INTRODUCTION Care farms, where all or part of the farm is used for therapeutic purposes, show much potential for improving the health and well-being of a range of disadvantaged groups. Studies to date have been qualitative or observational, with limited empirical evidence of the effectiveness of care farms in improving health and well-being. Understanding the underlying mechanisms that lead to ...

It is standardpractice to use log-linear and log-log regression models in the analysis of workers compensation claim costs. While useful for the investigation of-proportional cost relationships, those transformed models are not well suited for predicting individual or even average claim costs. There is, however, enormous potential for using regression equations as a computational device for gen...

BACKGROUND Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) causes substantial clinical and economic burden. While several studies have reported the cost to treat CAP, there is little information on the cost to treat by age, risk profile, and hospitalization in US adults aged ≥50 years. OBJECTIVE To quantify the cost, from a payer perspective, of treating CAP at the episode level, stratified by age, risk p...

the purpose of this report is to present the results of analysis of actual glucosamine and/or chondroitin contents of several such products in the market place and to determine if they significantly deviate from their label claim. a total of fourteen products containing glucosamine sulfate and nine products containing chondroitin sulfate were evaluated. the amounts of glucosamine and chondroiti...

OBJECTIVE To establish trends in whiplash-related health service use and cost in Victoria, Australia. DESIGN Administrative data analysis. SUBJECTS Whiplash patients claiming Transport Accident Commission (TAC) compensation for accidents dating between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2009 (n = 51,263). METHODS Injury-related health service use during one year following the accident was det...