At the turn of the XXI century, the emergence of new forms of work organization are transforming what had become standard forms of work arrangement in industrialized countries. In this new work environment, new firms, new types of workers and new risk factors are powerfully emerging. Contrary to common belief, we argue that emergent occupational health hazards should not be approached only as "...

Modernizing manufacturing and IT systems are paths industry leaders and regulators believe can result in safe, affordable, and efficacious drugs, but small improvements may not be enough. Biopharmaceutical companies are facing multiple challenges including increasing development costs, shifting outcomes-based economic models, and ever evolving global compliance needs. To combat these challenges...

This review was conducted to inform the scoping and development of the full report. It considers the empirical relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage and suicidal behaviour, highlighting (wherever possible) the evidence relating to the UK (as a whole or its constituent nations) and the Republic of Ireland. Socioeconomic disadvantage will be considered at both individual and aggregate l...

This paper presents a new systematic approach to find a global solution to economic dispatch (ED) with multiple fuel units using a function merger (FM). Currently, no systematic approach has been developed to find a global solution to economic dispatch with multiple fuel units. Various heuristic methods have been proposed, however it is almost impossible to guarantee a global solution by those ...

The excessive wastage of materials, improper management on site and low awareness of the need for waste reduction are common in the local construction sites in India. Today, in most European countries, it is economically feasible to recycle up to 80–90% of the total amount of construction waste and most demolition and recycling technologies are generally easy to implement and control (Lauritzen...

BACKGROUND Poor mental health has large social and economic consequences both for the individual and society. In Sweden, the prevalence of mental health symptoms has increased since the beginning of the 1990 s. There is a need for a better understanding of the area for planning preventive activities and health care. METHODS The study is based on a postal survey questionnaire sent to a random ...

BACKGROUND It is well known that there is a social gradient in mental health, the prevalence of mental disorders stepwise increasing by lower social status. The reason for this, however, is not clear, and the purpose of the present study was to explore possible mediating factors between social status and mental health. METHODS The study has a cross-sectional design, and was based on a nationw...

Article to be published by JAI Press in a volume titled Middle Eastern Women and Work and edited by the Middle East Economic Association The opinions expressed in this paper belong to the author and do not represent any institution. Women for the past three years. Her research and program work have been in the fields of international political economy, institutional economics, and gender and ec...

Subsequent pregnancies in mothers of a birth cohort from Pelotas, Southern Brazil, were studied in relation to maternal and socio-economic factors. Within about 3 1/2 years of the cohort child's birth, 39% of mothers had experienced at least one further pregnancy. This proportion decreased with increasing maternal age, years of schooling and family income. A U-shaped trend was observed with res...

Background: In Vietnam, reports either present general patterns of internal migration or the migration characteristics of specific subgroups. Reports are often based on small numbers and do not examine the relationships between socioeconomic factors and migration. Different reports classify migrant populations differently, presenting difficulties for researchers and policymakers to gain a consi...