BACKGROUND Workforce participation is a key feature of public mental health and social inclusion policies across the globe, and often a therapeutic goal in treatment settings. Understanding the reciprocal relationship between participation and mental health has been limited by inadequate research methods. This is the first study to simultaneously examine and contrast the relative effects of une...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether completing a year of the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA) program is associated with entering the rural medical workforce. DESIGN AND SETTING Cohort study of graduates from the University of Western Australia who completed Year 5 of medical school between 2002 and 2009, comparing work location (identified from the Australian Health Practitioner...

BACKGROUND Co-morbid major depressive disorder (MDD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is associated with poor clinical and psychological outcomes. However, the full extent of the burden of, and interaction between, this co-morbidity on important vocational outcomes remains less clear, particularly at the population level. We examine the association of co-morbid MDD with work outcomes in persons...

As populations in the United States and around world continue to age, it has become increasingly important understand how organizations can create working conditions that attract, support, retain workers across lifespan. In this paper, we provide a primer on current theory research age workplace. We briefly describe lifespan theories have guided recent advances field, discuss implications of th...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to present our assessment of the impact of resident participation on operative duration and outcomes after hemithyroidectomy, which may identify opportunities for optimization of educational programs, reduction in cost of healthcare delivery, and maximizing patient safety, while continuing to train a competent physician workforce for the future. METHOD...

1 Michelle Johnson, Ph.D., Stanford University, Center for Design Research, 560 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94306, [email protected] 2 Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Stanford University, [email protected] Abstract-Recent data suggest that the United States is unable to meet the demand for individuals well prepared to contribute to science, math, and engineering w...

The Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) are local labor market data produced and released every quarter by the United States Census Bureau. Unlike any other local labor market series produced in the U.S. or the rest of the world, QWI measure employment flows for workers (accession and separations), jobs (creations and destructions) and earnings for demographic subgroups (age and gender), econo...