Health
For millennials, employment is a public health challenge
Millennials now make up the largest share of the Canadian workforce and many are facing precarious working conditions.
Sep 7, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New program helps children with Down syndrome learn English
Cristina Cunha, teacher at Universidad Católica de Valencia (UCV), has designed a computer application that helps children with Down syndrome to learn English. The online program, based on intelligent tutoring systems, can ...
Jan 17, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New study on the impostor phenomenon in the workplace shows how it affects career prospects and productivity
Have you ever felt that you are not good enough and that someday soon someone will see through your façade of competence and expose you a fraud in your job? If so, you are not alone.
Nov 21, 2016
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Health
A change of job could help people on long-term sick leave
A change of job could be a means of prolonging labour market participation for people on long-term sick leave, according to a thesis by Karin Nordström at Karolinska Institutet. The thesis also looks at differences in sick ...
Apr 26, 2016
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Job market lures more physician assistants to specialties over primary care
The job market is luring more physician assistants, or PAs, to jobs in specialty care rather than primary care practices such as family medicine and general pediatrics, according to new research from Duke Health.
Mar 2, 2016
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Health
White deaths increase: drugs, alcohol, suicide, but in US only. Why?
There's a big puzzle growing out of that startling new research showing that the death rate among white Americans age 45-54, especially the less-educated, has been rising since 1999. This even though the death rate among ...
Nov 9, 2015
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New ASN-GWU report examines key challenges for kidney health workforce
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) released the latest in series of analyses of the nephrology workforce, which outlines current and future challenges to the specialty. Authored by researchers from the George Washington ...
Oct 26, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
One in five suicides is associated with unemployment
Every year, around 45,000 people take their own lives because they are out of work or someone close to them is affected by unemployment, as a study by the University of Zurich now reveals. It includes data of 63 countries ...
Feb 10, 2015
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Alcohol taxes may give boost to public health, economy
(HealthDay)—Some may believe that raising taxes on alcohol products will cost jobs in the service sector, but a new study suggests that's made up for by job creation elsewhere.
Nov 18, 2014
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Nearly one in five new nurses leave first job within a year
Turnover of registered nurses (RNs) is an important and widely used measure in analyzing the health care workforce. It's used to project the job market for nurses (based on availability of jobs) and can also be considered ...
Sep 9, 2014
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