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A trade union (or labor union) is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, achieving higher pay and benefits such as health care and retirement, increasing the number of employees an employer assigns to complete the work, and better ...
A community health worker in Korail Basti, a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Public health has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease", prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations (public and private), communities and individuals. [2]
A social enterprises can be structured as a business, a partnership for profit or non-profit, and may take the form (depending on in which country the entity exists and the legal forms available) of a co-operative, mutual organisation, a disregarded entity (a form of business classification for income tax purposes in the United States), [5] a social business, a benefit corporation, a community ...
Self-funded health care, also known as Administrative Services Only (ASO), is a self insurance arrangement in the United States whereby an employer provides health or disability benefits to employees using the company's own funds. [1]
Poor health outcomes appear to be an effect of economic inequality across a population. Nations and regions with greater economic inequality show poorer outcomes in life expectancy, [29]: Figure 1.1 mental health, [29]: Figure 5.1 drug abuse, [29]: Figure 5.3 obesity, [29]: Figure 7.1 educational performance, teenage birthrates, and ill health due to violence.
The term can encompass a range of services or systems that are at the edge of medicine/healthcare and information technology, including: Electronic health record: enabling the communication of patient data between different healthcare professionals (GPs, specialists etc.);
Nensi Dojaka’s designs have always been informed by sensuality, so it made sense that in her return to London Fashion Week—her first show there in two seasons—she debuted a collaboration ...
Companies most commonly subsidize workplace wellness programs in the hope they will reduce costs on employee health benefits like health insurance in the long run. [2] Existing research has failed to establish a clinically significant difference in health outcomes, proof of a return on investment, or demonstration of causal effects of ...