Health

Aged care overhaul must consider informal carers

Productivity Commission recommendations to keep Australia's ageing population at home instead of in aged care facilities will put further pressure on informal, unpaid and mostly female carers, a University of Sydney professor ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Men suffer from long-lasting atypical employment

Men who experience more spells of atypical employment during their first six years of labor market participation report worse self-rated health, new research has shown.

Medical economics

Employment of nurses decreased early in COVID-19 pandemic

(HealthDay)—Employment of nurses decreased early in the COVID-19 pandemic, then rebounded in most sectors, apart from nursing homes, according to a study published in the January issue of Health Affairs.

Health

Employer-sponsored wellness programs on the rise

Organizations in the Chicago area report an increase of health-improvement and wellness programs according to a survey conducted in September 2011 by Aon Hewitt in partnership with Rush Health. The survey results will be ...

Health

Number of nurse practitioners more than doubled 2010 to 2017

(HealthDay)—From 2010 to 2017, there was a substantial increase in the number of nurse practitioners in the United States, with a corresponding reduction in the size of the registered nurse workforce, according to a report ...

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