background: occupational stress occurs when job needs do not comply with the abilities, support, and needs of the employee. in addition to negatively affecting the physical and mental health of individuals, occupational stress can reduce their efficiency and productivity in organizations. this paper investigated the rate of job stress and its relation to absenteeism in workers. methods: in this...

BACKGROUND School absenteeism is a common source of data used in syndromic surveillance, which can eventually be used for early outbreak detection. However, the absenteeism reporting system in most schools, especially in developing countries, relies on a paper-based method that limits its use for disease surveillance or outbreak detection. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop ...

OBJECTIVE  To determine which factors influence whether Santa Claus will visit children in hospital on Christmas Day. DESIGN  Retrospective observational study. SETTING  Paediatric wards in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. PARTICIPANTS  186 members of staff who worked on the paediatric wards (n=186) during Christmas 2015. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES  Presence or absence of Sant...

Nursing workers represent a significant proportion of the hospital workforce. In recent times, focus is puton increasing efficacy with reducing concurrent risks in this population. Many researches imply onincluding workplace modifications and various exercises to reduce number absenteeism heightenthe quality work. As low back ache most prevalent, study targets on determining effects ofworkstati...

Organisational commitment is a job attitude frequently linked to employee morale, motivation and behaviour. High organisational has been associated with increased effort productivity, while low absenteeism turnover. There evidence suggest aspects of communication are important in this regard. This article reports the results study that investigated relationships between comprehensive set genera...

Over decades of study, problematic school absenteeism in youths has been associated with diverse terms such as truancy, psychoneurotic truancy, school refusal, school phobia, and separation anxiety. Unfortunately, such disparity has led to lack of consensus regarding definition, assessment, and treatment for this population. This is especially problematic given that school absenteeism and dropo...

OBJECTIVES In the past, evidence on the negative consequences of workplace bullying has been limited to cross sectional studies of self reported bullying. In this study, these consequences were examined prospectively by focusing on sickness absence in hospital staff. METHODS The Poisson regression analyses of medically certified spells (>/=4 days) and self certified spells (1-3 days) of sickn...

BACKGROUND Day care-associated infectious diseases are widely recognized as a public health problem but rarely studied. Insights into their dynamics and their association with the day care setting are important for effective decision making in management of infectious disease control. This paper describes the purpose, design and potential of our national multi-center, day care-based sentinel su...

Highly qualified staff are the key to successful operations management in any organization. In this paper, emphasis is put on problem of planning rotational assignment work tasks a multi-skilled guarantee maintaining their competencies at required level. The aim study propose novel declarative model for proactive allocation whilst taking into account forgetting effect. Sufficient conditions pro...