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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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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To participate in the labour market and to have a family are things most people take for granted. Women with functional disabilities are deprived of many opportunities. The explanation may be both functional ability and gender, ...
Mar 26, 2018
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A call for more menopause-friendly workplaces is made in a new Government report prepared by a team from the University of Leicester.
Aug 4, 2017
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Young adults who are employed on zero-hours contracts are less likely to be in good health, and are at higher risk of poor mental health than workers with stable jobs.
Jul 6, 2017
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Female and male workers over 50 years old respond in different ways to severe health problems. If physically recovered, men tend to work more hours, but women prefer to enjoy more free time. And single men and women risk ...
Apr 3, 2017
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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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The economic recession of 2008 – 2010 was followed by increases in rates of suicide, suicide attempts, and mental illness, a PolicyBristol report from a team led by academics at the University of Bristol has found.
Nov 6, 2015
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The higher a patient's income, the better are his or her chances of surviving cardiac surgery in both the short and long term. This is the finding of a new registry study by researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet ...
Oct 19, 2015
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A recent intercontinental study, conducted by the Centre for Public Health, Department of General Medicine of MedUni Vienna using the example of women from sub-Saharan Africa has shown that, on the one hand, there is a shortage ...
Jul 20, 2015
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Uganda's government on Tuesday hit back at mounting criticism of plans to 'export' over 200 health workers to the Caribbean, insisting it was only seeking to regulate an existing labour market and prevent abuses.
Mar 3, 2015
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