Medical students and residents have shown increasing interest in international health experiences. Before attempting to establish a global health training program in a family medicine residency, program faculty must consider the goals of the international program, whether there are champions to support the program, the resources available, and the specific type of program that best fits with th...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has developed three sets of occupational employment projections for 1978 to 1990 based on varying outlooks of the future economy.' Although the assumptions that differentiate these scenarios result in various rates of growth for most jobs, changes in the occupational composition of total employment during these years are similar for all versions and generally corr...

The aim of this study is to evaluate a possible relationship between the level of anticipated discrimination with severity of symptoms and functionality. We included 103 patients with schizophrenia. Severity of symptoms was measured by PANSS and Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia. Quality of life (QL) and functionality were measured by using QLS, PSP and Functional Remission of General ...

THE OPERATIONS of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program yield, as a byproduct, valuable data for social, economic, and demographic analyses. One important field is the study of the mortality of insured workersboth those with recent covered employment and those without such employment-in relation to the mortality for the Nation’s total population. Many of the differences arisi...

BACKGROUND Since it was anticipated that the need for doctors would increase due to demographic changes, the number of positions for medical specialty training programs has increased from the year 2000 onwards. However, the number of permanent positions for young cardiologists did not follow that trend leading to concerns about future employment. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to a...

We study how 3,534 beneficiaries of PROSPERA, Mexico's cash transfer program, smooth food consumption around the payday, an anticipated and transitory income shock. find that security do not change including for recipients with impatient or time-inconsistent preferences households higher than median dependence. Conversely, health employment shocks (unexpected less changes) reduce security. The ...