Effect of employers' concerns about cancer countermeasures on the implementation of cancer screening and support for balancing cancer treatment and work in small and medium-sized Japanese enterprises
CONCLUSION: Our findings suggested that employers' interest was a powerful predictor of implementing cancer control in SMEs. Educational intervention targeted toward the employer could play a critical role in improving SMEs.PMID:35989472 | PMC:PMC9393347 | DOI:10.1002/1348-9585.12352 (Source: Journal of Occupational Health)
Source: Journal of Occupational Health - August 22, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Masanari Minamitani Masayuki Tatemichi Tomoya Mukai Atsuto Katano Keiichi Nakagawa Source Type: research
Effect of employers' concerns about cancer countermeasures on the implementation of cancer screening and support for balancing cancer treatment and work in small and medium-sized Japanese enterprises
CONCLUSION: Our findings suggested that employers' interest was a powerful predictor of implementing cancer control in SMEs. Educational intervention targeted toward the employer could play a critical role in improving SMEs.PMID:35989472 | DOI:10.1002/1348-9585.12352 (Source: Journal of Occupational Health)
Source: Journal of Occupational Health - August 22, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Masanari Minamitani Masayuki Tatemichi Tomoya Mukai Atsuto Katano Keiichi Nakagawa Source Type: research
Health professionals’ views and experiences of the Australian moratorium on genetic testing and life insurance: A qualitative study
European Journal of Human Genetics, Published online: 28 July 2022; doi:10.1038/s41431-022-01150-6Health professionals’ views and experiences of the Australian moratorium on genetic testing and life insurance: A qualitative study (Source: European Journal of Human Genetics)
Source: European Journal of Human Genetics - July 28, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Grace Dowling Jane Tiller Aideen McInerney-Leo Andrea Belcher Casey Haining Kristine Barlow-Stewart Tiffany Boughtwood Penny Gleeson Martin B. Delatycki Ingrid Winship Margaret Otlowski Chris Jacobs Louise Keogh Paul Lacaze Source Type: research
A step forward, but still inadequate: Australian health professionals views on the genetics and life insurance moratorium
Conclusion
While the current Australian moratorium is considered a step forward, most HPs believe it falls short of an adequate long-term regulatory solution to GD in life insurance. (Source: Journal of Medical Genetics)
Source: Journal of Medical Genetics - July 21, 2022 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Tiller, J. M., Keogh, L. A., McInerney-Leo, A. M., Belcher, A., Barlow-Stewart, K., Boughtwood, T., Gleeson, P., Dowling, G., Prince, A., Bombard, Y., Joly, Y., Delatycki, M., Winship, I. M., Otlowski, M., Lacaze, P. Tags: Ethics and policy Source Type: research
Smallpox
Like a volcano which rumbles and smokes long before it explodes, smallpox gives the world a timely warning. Within the last five years, local epidemics have occurred in Scotland, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, Burmah, the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo, Canada, and in several of our own states, in one of which an epidemic exists at present. There is evidence in these outbreaks to indicate that smallpox is becoming more virulent as well as more common. The mortality rate in some instances has been as high as 40 per cent. The number of cases in 1921 in ninety-three American citie...
Source: JAMA - July 19, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 2166: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Life Insurance Denial Due to Cancer among Cancer Survivors
This study examined racial/ethnic differences in health/life insurance denial due to cancer among cancer survivors after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data were obtained from 2012–2020. The dependent variable asked: “Were you ever denied health insurance or life insurance coverage because of your cancer?” Cancer survivors were included if they were diagnosed with cancer after the Affordable Care Act (N = 14,815). Unadjusted and adjusted logistic regressions for age, sex, income, and employment provided odds ratios of insura...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - February 15, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Adrienne B. Lent Carlos O. Garrido Emily H. Baird Ruta Viela Robin B. Harris Tags: Article Source Type: research
Suicide and Life Insurance
Much has been written about the history of suicide and, notably, about societies that condemned both the act and the actor, resulting in a perpetuation of suicide being stigmatized in many cultures. One aspect of this perceived stigmatization involves exclusionary clauses in life insurance policies that reject paying benefits to survivor-beneficiaries of the decedent if the decedent has died by suicide within a prescribed time frame. From the perspective of the individual, life insurance is designed to protect the estate of a decedent from a significant financial burden. From the insurer’s perspective, there are essentia...
Source: Journal of Psychiatric Practice - January 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Columns Source Type: research
The Social Survey, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Beginnings of the US Public Health Service's Sickness Surveys
Am J Public Health. 2021 Oct 28:e1-e9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306454. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe earliest sickness survey of the US Public Health Service, which started in 1915, was the Service's first socioeconomic study of an industrial community. It was also the first to define illness as a person's inability to work. The survey incorporated the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's definition of illness, which, instead of sickness rates, focused on duration of illness as a proxy of time lost from work. This kind of survey took place in the broader context of the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the so...
Source: Am J Public Health - October 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M ónica García Source Type: research
The Social Survey, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Beginnings of the US Public Health Service's Sickness Surveys
Am J Public Health. 2021 Oct 28:e1-e9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306454. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe earliest sickness survey of the US Public Health Service, which started in 1915, was the Service's first socioeconomic study of an industrial community. It was also the first to define illness as a person's inability to work. The survey incorporated the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's definition of illness, which, instead of sickness rates, focused on duration of illness as a proxy of time lost from work. This kind of survey took place in the broader context of the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the so...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M ónica García Source Type: research
The Social Survey, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Beginnings of the US Public Health Service's Sickness Surveys
Am J Public Health. 2021 Oct 28:e1-e9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306454. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe earliest sickness survey of the US Public Health Service, which started in 1915, was the Service's first socioeconomic study of an industrial community. It was also the first to define illness as a person's inability to work. The survey incorporated the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's definition of illness, which, instead of sickness rates, focused on duration of illness as a proxy of time lost from work. This kind of survey took place in the broader context of the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the so...
Source: Am J Public Health - October 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M ónica García Source Type: research
The Social Survey, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Beginnings of the US Public Health Service's Sickness Surveys
Am J Public Health. 2021 Oct 28:e1-e9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306454. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe earliest sickness survey of the US Public Health Service, which started in 1915, was the Service's first socioeconomic study of an industrial community. It was also the first to define illness as a person's inability to work. The survey incorporated the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's definition of illness, which, instead of sickness rates, focused on duration of illness as a proxy of time lost from work. This kind of survey took place in the broader context of the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the so...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M ónica García Source Type: research
The Social Survey, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Beginnings of the US Public Health Service's Sickness Surveys
Am J Public Health. 2021 Oct 28:e1-e9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306454. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe earliest sickness survey of the US Public Health Service, which started in 1915, was the Service's first socioeconomic study of an industrial community. It was also the first to define illness as a person's inability to work. The survey incorporated the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's definition of illness, which, instead of sickness rates, focused on duration of illness as a proxy of time lost from work. This kind of survey took place in the broader context of the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the so...
Source: Am J Public Health - October 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M ónica García Source Type: research
The Social Survey, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Beginnings of the US Public Health Service's Sickness Surveys
Am J Public Health. 2021 Oct 28:e1-e9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306454. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe earliest sickness survey of the US Public Health Service, which started in 1915, was the Service's first socioeconomic study of an industrial community. It was also the first to define illness as a person's inability to work. The survey incorporated the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's definition of illness, which, instead of sickness rates, focused on duration of illness as a proxy of time lost from work. This kind of survey took place in the broader context of the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the so...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M ónica García Source Type: research
