Occupational medicine
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Occupational medicine · Dec 2014
Comparative StudyCross-national comparison of job satisfaction in doctors during economic recession.
Job satisfaction in doctors is related to migration, burnout, turnover and health service quality. However, little is known about their job satisfaction during economic recessions. Iceland and Norway have similar health care systems, but only Iceland was affected severely by the 2008 economic crisis. ⋯ Job satisfaction in doctors was lower in Iceland than in Norway, which may have been attributable partly to the current economic recession.
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Occupational medicine · Oct 2014
Biography Historical Article Classical ArticleFifty years ago: 'General practice and industrial medicine in the United States'. 1964.
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Occupational medicine · Sep 2014
Review Historical ArticleFactors influencing return to work after hip and knee replacement.
Return to employment is one of the key goals of joint replacement surgery in the working-age population. There is limited quantitative and qualitative research focusing on return to work after hip and knee replacement. It remains unclear why certain groups of patients are not able to achieve sufficient functional improvement to allow productive return to work while others can. Very little is known about the individual patient and employer perspectives in this regard. ⋯ There is a need for further qualitative work on how and why these factors influence employment outcomes.
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Studies examining pain catastrophizing and employment have had mixed findings. No study of pain catastrophizing has examined its relationship to lifetime employment status in a general clinical population. ⋯ In this clinical sample, pain catastrophizing demonstrated varying relationships with different aspects of lifetime employment, rather than exerting an overall global effect on employment.
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Occupational medicine · Jun 2014
Factors influencing early retirement intentions in Australian rural general practitioners.
The Australian general practice workforce is ageing. This and a trend towards higher exit intentions and earlier retirement make it increasingly important to identify those work and personal factors affecting intention to leave, which are amenable to change. ⋯ From a health policy reform perspective, the greatest impact on reducing early retirement intentions among ageing GPs could potentially be made by intervening in areas of working hours, burnout and work-related sleep issues, followed by job satisfaction, psychological distress, health, general workability and mental and physical work ability.