Hospitals, Health Care Professionals, and Aids: the Right to Know the Health Status of Professionals and Patients

This article addresses why patients and health care professionals (HCPs) with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) should have autonomy and privacy rights to choose whether to consent to an HIV test and to disclose their serologic status. It also demonstrates that the risk of HIV transmission in health care settings is exceedingly low, that it is probably lower than other well-accepted risks taken by patients and professionals, and that there are other less intrusive ways to further reduce the risk. The article concludes that knowledge of a patient\u27s serologic status is unlikely to reduce risk, since no effective action could be taken with the information. Balanced against the negligible public health benefit of a right to know are significant personal, financial, and social costs of screening programs

Reflections on the Connections Between Work and Health

Describes approaches that TCWF is using to improve health through employment-related strategies, and identifies some of the challenges the foundation has experienced in the cross-disciplinary endeavor. Part of TCWF's Reflections series

The earnings losses of injured men: Accounting for injuries outside the Workers' Compensation system

Using individual reports of workplace injuries, I estimate the effect of injuries on the labor market earnings of men. Injured workers suffer large and persistent annual earnings losses, an average of $2,200 per year following injury. Moreover, data restrictions on previous studies resulted in earnings losses 1.2 to 3 times larger than those found when all injured workers are compared to uninjured workers. Largest losses occur when a work limiting disability follows injury, with average losses from$4,000 to $8,000. The findings suggest a more nuanced picture than previously presented, and suggest focusing on injuries resulting in a disability.Workers' Compensation; injuries; earnings;

Workplace Violence and Security: Are there Lessons for Peacemaking?

Workplace violence has captured the attention of commentators, employers, and the public at large. Although statistically the incidents of workplace homicide and assault are decreasing, public awareness of the problem has heightened, largely through media reports of violent incidents. Employers are exhorted to address the problem of workplace violence and are offered a variety of programs and processes to prevent its occurrence. Many techniques, however, conflict with values that are critical to achieving sustainable peace. We focus on types of workplace violence that are triggered by organizational factors. From among the plethora of recommendations, we identify those responses that are most and least consistent with positive peace. We find that processes that promote privacy, transparency, and employee rights hold the most promise for peacemaking. We submit that such structures and processes can be transportable beyond the workplace to promote peace locally, nationally, and globally.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39920/3/wp535.pd

Workplace Violence and Security: Are there Lessons for Peacemaking?

Workplace violence has captured the attention of commentators, employers, and the public at large. Although statistically the incidents of workplace homicide and assault are decreasing, public awareness of the problem has heightened, largely through media reports of violent incidents. Employers are exhorted to address the problem of workplace violence and are offered a variety of programs and processes to prevent its occurrence. Many techniques, however, conflict with values that are critical to achieving sustainable peace. We focus on types of workplace violence that are triggered by organizational factors. From among the plethora of recommendations, we identify those responses that are most and least consistent with positive peace. We find that processes that promote privacy, transparency, and employee rights hold the most promise for peacemaking. We submit that such structures and processes can be transportable beyond the workplace to promote peace locally, nationally, and globally.workplace violence, employee rights, sustainable peace, and corporate governance

Am J Ind Med

BackgroundLittle is known about the work-related injury and illnesses experienced by certified athletic trainers (AT).MethodsThe incidence and characteristics of injury/illness claims filed in two workers\u2019 compensation systems were described from 2001 to 2011. Yearly populations at risk were estimated from National Athletic Trainers\u2019 Association membership statistics. Incidence rate ratios (IRR) were reported by job setting.ResultsClaims were predominantly for traumatic injuries and disorders (82.7%: 45.7% sprains/strains, 12.0% open wounds, 6.5% bruises) and at these body sites (back 17.2%, fingers 12.3%, and knee 9.6%) and over half were caused by body motion and overexertion (51.5%). Compared with school settings, clinic/hospital settings had modestly higher claim rates (IRR = 1.29, 95% CI: 1.06\u20131.52) while other settings (e.g., professional or youth sport, nursing home) had lower claim rates (IRR = 0.63, 95% CI: 0.44\u20130.70).ConclusionsThese first known estimates of work-related injuries/illnesses among a growing healthcare profession help identify occupational tasks and settings imposing injury risk for ATs.K01 OH009713/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States2018-01-02T00:00:00Z27779316PMC57492277184vault:2317

Aldi’s Clothing Bargains- Discount buys discounting standards?

CCC_2007_12_Aldi_s_clothing_bargains.pdf: 1435 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020