Employees' attitudes towards workplace health promotion activities in a selected company
Social Participation and Functional Decline: A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Older People, Using Japan Gerontolog...
This study compared the relationship between social participation, including work, and incidence of functional decline in rural and urban older people in Japan, by focusing on the number and types of organizations older people participated in. The longitudinal data of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES) that followed 55,243 individual...
Working life trajectories with hearing impairment.
Published in Disability and rehabilitation
Purpose: The aim was to identify and explore factors, which facilitate or hinder work participation for people with hearing impairment.Materials and methods: In-depth interviews with 21 hearing impaired individuals of 32-67 years of age with a present or recent vocational affiliation were conducted. The analysis was conducted using a grounded theor...
Life Strategies, Work and Health in People with Usher Syndrome
Introduction: People with Usher syndrome (USH) have an inherited disorder causing congenital deafness or hearing loss combined with progressive vision loss and, in some cases, balance problems. Previous research has shown that people with USH have poor physical and psychological health. Research has, however, demonstrated that there are in-group he...
Living a Healthy Life in Australia: Exploring Influences on Health for Refugees from Myanmar
Background: Humanitarian migrants from Myanmar represent a significant refugee group in Australia / however, knowledge of their health needs and priorities is limited. This study aims to explore the meaning and influencers of health from the perspectives of refugees from Myanmar. Method: Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) design,...
Influence of Health Literacy on the Physical Activity of Working Adults: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the TRISEARCH Tri...
Studies show that high health literacy (HL) can support the promotion and maintenance of healthy behavior such as physical activity (PA). However, most studies rely on subjective data. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between HL and PA, not only with subjectively but also with objectively measured PA data. The present...
Development of the Daily Time Management Scale for Use by Working People with Type 2 Diabetes.
...Published in Japan journal of nursing science : JJNS
The purpose of this study was to develop a scale to assess daily time management capabilities among working patients with diabetes and to test this scale's reliability and validity. A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted among 277 diabetes outpatients, and data from 220 participants (mean age = 54.3 ± 10.2 years, 76.8% male) were an...
The Measurement and Role of Ecological Resilience Systems Theory Across Domain-Specific Outcomes: The Domain-Specific Re...
Published in Assessment
Research suggests that trait resilience may be best understood within an ecological resilient systems theory, comprising engineering, ecological, and adaptive capacity resilience. However, there is no evidence as to how this theory translates to specific life domains. Data from two samples (the United States, n = 1,278; the United Kingdom, n = 211)...
Occupational heat stress management: Does one size fit all?
Published in American journal of industrial medicine
Heat stress is a deadly occupational hazard that is projected to increase in severity with global warming. While upper limits for heat stress designed to protect all workers have been recommended by occupational safety institutes for some time, heat stress continues to compromise health and productivity. In our view, this is largely explained by th...
Professional Work of Women in State Agricultural Farms (1949–1989) — an Overview
Published in Studia Historiae Oeconomicae
Women employed in State Agricultural Farms (SAF) were blue- and white-collar workers, the former group being more numerous. However, the blue-collar workers mainly worked seasonally, during the period of intensive field work. When it comes to fulltime work, it was usually related to animal production. The demand for this type of work decreased with...
