OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to estimate the socioeconomic cost of injuries in South Korea. METHODS We matched claims data from national health insurance, automobile insurance and industrial accident compensation insurance (IACI), and mortality data obtained from the national statistical office from 2001 to 2003 by patients' unique identifier. Socioeconomic cost included both direct co...

1Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Administrative Science, Semnan university, Semnan, Iran, 2 Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected], [email protected] ABSTRACT:The aim of this study was to measure and analyze the strategic agility of insurance companies through t...

MATline is a tool that can be used to predict which industrial processes can be expected to involve the use of a substance that is considered carcinogenic as documented in the literature. The database includes agents carrying risk phrases R45, R49 and R40 according to the method of classification adopted by the EU and/or agents in categories 1, 2A and 2B as classified by the International Agenc...

Health insurance, as we generally think of it in the United States, began with the Great Depression in the 1930s. In this chapter, we review the history of health insurance and demonstrate how that history is linked to current health insurance developments. Predating private health insurance were efforts at government-sponsored coverage for workplace injury and a tradition of industrial sicknes...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to identify high-risk groups for industrial accidents by setting up 2003 as the base year and conducting an in-depth analysis of the trends of major industrial accident indexes the index of industrial accident rate, the index of occupational injury rate, the index of occupational illness and disease rate per 10,000 people, and the index of occupational ...

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Research Assistant, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, (1968-1969) • Faculty, Department of Economics, Stanford University, (1969present) • Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, (1966-1967) • Fellow, Econometric Society, (1993-1993) • Fellow, University College, University of London, (2001-2001) • Fellow, Society of Labor Econom...

Workflow Management (WfM) is evolving quickly and expolited increasingly by businesses in a variety of industries. Its primary characteristic is the automation of processes involving combinations of human and machinebased activities, particularly those involving interaction with IT applications and tools. Although its most prevalent use is within the office environment in staff intensive operat...

The EIP definition proposed by the Indigo Development Team in 1993 has been widely accepted, which is “An eco-industrial park or estate is a community of manufacturing and service businesses located together on a common property” (Lowe, 2001). Cote & Hall (1995) suggested that an eco-industrial park, an industrial system could conserve natural and economic resources, reduce costs and debts incu...