Iran J Public Health
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Iran J Public Health · Apr 2018
Assessing Pain among Chinese Elderly-Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.
Body pain is an important issue among elderly. The objective of this study was to access the association between the socioeconomic status and pain among elderly Chinese. ⋯ Socioeconomic variables such as education, occupation and health conditions are associated with both moderate severe pains.
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Iran J Public Health · Dec 2017
Knowledge Management Orientation: An Innovative Perspective to Hospital Management.
By considering innovation as a new project in hospitals, all the project management's standard steps should be followed in execution. This study investigated the validation of a new set of measures in terms of providing a procedure for knowledge management-oriented innovation that enriches the hospital management system. ⋯ The developed items seem to have a potential to help hospital managers and subsequently delivering new products/services successfully based on the standard procedures in their organization. In all innovation processes, the knowledge management areas and their standard steps help hospital managers by a new tool as questionnaire format.
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Iran J Public Health · Oct 2017
Investigation of the Relationship between Work Ability and Work-related Quality of Life in Nurses.
Work ability of nurses is an index of their job satisfaction and is a crucial factor in job quality and security. This study aimed to investigate the association between work ability and quality of working life and to determine the effective demographic and background variables, among nurses. ⋯ Overall, results support the association between nurses work ability and WRQoL. Monitoring the WRQoL and work ability of employees would help organizations to know their status and take measures to ameliorate the working conditions.