Vaccinating Health Care Employees In vaccinating low-risk employees early, leaders of some U.S. health care organizations violated their duty to promote public and contributed the narrati...

In recent years, employees have been shouldering an increasing share of the costs of employee-provided health care. At the same time, more and more employers have been allowing employees to pay their out-of-pocket health care costs using pre-tax earnings, through tax-subsidized ‡exible spending accounts (FSAs). We use a cross-section of …rm-level data from 1993 to show empirically that these FS...

BACKGROUND This study sought to identify the extent to which employee level and work stressors were associated with mental health problems experienced by Australian government employees, and with their use of primary care services. METHODS 806 government employees aged between 40 and 44 years were surveyed as part of an epidemiological study conducted in Australia. Data collected from partici...

INTRODUCTION Children and their families use a lot of different services, which poses challenges in terms of cooperation between service providers. The purpose of the study was to evaluate and compare the functioning of this cooperation between services for children and families in Finland's mainland municipalities from the viewpoints of employees and managers. METHOD The study was carried ou...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, § 307 (MMA) requires the establishment of a pilot program for background checks of new employees of long-term care (LTC) facilities. Michigan was the only participating state to single out psychiatric facilities and employees under laws designed to comply with the program specified in § 307. The program was a demonstrat...

BACKGROUND Rising health insurance premiums represent a rapidly increasing burden on employer-sponsors of health insurance and their employees. Some employers have become proactive in managing health care costs by providing tools to encourage employees to directly manage their health and prevent disease. One example of such a tool is DASH for Health, an Internet-based nutrition and exercise beh...

introduction: health care industry consists of an unexpected and confusing environment in which quality events play the important role. in such conditions, the necessary changes should be made. excellence models are general oriented frameworks that are able to achieve the above intention. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. data gathered by a standard checkli...

BACKGROUND The economy is being lifted by the new concept of robotics, but we cannot be sure of all the possible benefits. At this early stage, it therefore becomes important to find out the possible benefits/limitations associated with robotics, so that the positives can be capitalized, established, and developed further for the employment and motivation of employees in the health care sector,...

In the US, typically employers choose a basket of health insurance plan providers and their health plans, out of which their employees can choose. Although this appears to give the employees a choice, yet it may not meet their personal benefit preferences. Therefore, a question arises: whether the health insurance provided by the employers satisfies the health insurance benefit preferences of t...

One of the clearest findings of Mercer's annual National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans is that more companies are thinking of adopting a consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) approach, and more employees are enrolling in CDHPs at the companies that offer them. The authors discuss the advantages for organizations that offer CDHPs, as well as outline key considerations for companies lo...