Health and Work Productivity: Making the Business Case for Quality Health Care (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De) Reviews

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Release: 2006-04-01
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0226432122
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A recent study of productivity in the workplace revealed that workers spend on average eight percent of their workday doing nothing. This statistic takes on greater significance when we find that health problems impact employee productivity loss by an even greater percentage. In light of this discovery, a group of leading experts from the emerging field of health and productivity research argues that the expansion of health care benefits represents a substantial investment opportunity for employers.
 
Health and Work Productivity presents state-of-the-art health and productivity research that suggests interventions aimed at prevention, early detection, and best-practice treatment of workers along with an informed allocation strategy can produce significant cost-benefits for employers. Contributors cover all the major aspects of this new area of research: approaches to studying the effects of health on productivity, ways for employers to estimate the costs of productivity loss, Download Health and Work Productivity for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence Pdf

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Release: 2001-01-15
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195138821
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The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for three decades research has shown that clinicians' unaided assessments of "dangerousness" are barely better than chance. Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence. The authors of this massive project -- the largest ever undertaken on the topic -- demonstrate how clinicians can use a "decision tree" to identify groups of patients at very low and very high risk for violence. This dramatic new finding, and its implications for the every da Download Rethinking Risk Assessment for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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How Healthy Are We?: A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De) Pdf

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Release: 2005-11-15
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0226074773
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How physically and psychologically healthy are Americans at midlife? And why do some experience greater well-being than others? The MacArthur Foundation addressed these questions head-on by funding a landmark study known as "Midlife in the U.S." (MIDUS). How Healthy Are We? presents the key findings from the survey in three sections: physical health, quality of life and psychological well-being, and the contexts of midlife. This wide-ranging study measures not only health—the absence of illness—but also reports on the presence of wellness in middle-aged Americans. Researchers, policymakers, and others concerned with the quality of midlife will welcome its insights.

"A decade of innovative research by an all-star scientific team yields this insightful description of strategies we use to navigate challenges over the life course. How Healthy Are We? redefines 'middle age' for scientists and for the rest of our society by debunking the myth of the midlife crisis and revealing th Download How Healthy Are We? for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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