The first article in this issue of the Bulletin provides information on women and couples who were receiving retired-worker benefits in 1976. This article updates that information, focusing on potential full retired-worker benefits earned by men and women who will be reaching retirement age in the early 1980s. It is estimated that an increasing proportion of married women will become insured fo...

Rationale. During the COVID-19 lockdown in Spain, healthcare workers have experienced productive work overload, as well an increase reproductive work, which has worsened their mental health. Little research been done on nonhealthcare essential although they exposed to similar conditions. Objective. To explore experiences of after first year syndemic Spain work-life balance, considering differen...

ences in benefit amount reflect the lower earnings of the Spanish-surnamed and the differences in size of family (as well as the application of the maximum limit on family benefits). The effect, of limited earnings is modified somewhat, however, by the fact, that the formula for determining the worker’s primary insurance amount (on which the worker’s benefits and those of his dependents are bas...

In several families, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) has been found in association with cutaneous lichen amyloidosis. It has been debated, however, whether the skin amyloidosis found in MEN 2A families, localized exclusively in the interscapular area, represents the same anomaly as that found in autosomal dominant familial cutaneous lichen amyloidosis, which is more generalized. W...

PURPOSE Type of work might be related to insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, scant data are available. We performed this study to investigate whether the prevalence of MetS and insulin resistance differed according to occupation in middle-aged men. MATERIALS AND METHODS In all, 2,348 men in their 40s~50s who had participated in the Korean National Health and Nutriti...

Inequality has social costs: it may engender political divisions, aggravate crime, and lead low-income families into poverty from which they or their children may not emerge. Dramatic shifts in relative well-being therefore demand attention. In the late. 1980s, economists discovered that the earnings of highand low-wage workers were rapidly diverging (Levy and Murnane 1992). Chart 1 plots earni...

This article highlights "disciplined improvisation" as a metaphor for community-based work with multi-stressed families. It introduces Collaborative Helping maps as a tool that both helps workers think their way through complex situations with families and provides a structure to support constructive conversations between workers and families about challenging situations. The article illustrate...