Attitude health

Baldwin PJ, Dodd M, Wrate RW. Young doctors health—I. How do working conditions affect attitudes, health and performance Soc Sci Med 1997 45(1) 35—40. 

Capability is defined in ERA as the employee s capability assessed by reference to skill, attitude, health or other physical or mental quality and such qualifications as any degree, diploma or other academic, technical or professional qualification relevant to the position the employee held. The two main classes of capability, or lack of it, are ill-health and die inability of the employee to carry out his duties in a reasonable and acceptable manner. 

There is a role in regulatoiy law and a role for government action. But these roles should be predominantly concerned not with detailed prescription for innumerable day to day circumstances but with influencing attitudes and creating a framework for better health and safety organisation and action by industry itself ... 

The Japanese regulatory authority is the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) and the Pharmaceutical and Medical Safety Bureau (PSMB) is responsible for the promulgation of national and international guidelines in the form of Notifications. Guidelines are available on the Internet web-site of the National Institute of Health and Science (http //www.nihs.go.jp). The MHW has not issued specific guidance on the development of chiral drugs, but has nonetheless responded to the enantiomer-versus-racemate scientific debate. The attitude of the MHW and its advisory body, the Central Pharmaceutical Affairs Council (CPAC) is discussed in two articles by Shindo and Caldwell published in 1991 and 1995 [17, 18]. The latter paper analyzes the results of a survey of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry which sought responses on chirality issues. 

The affective domain includes the patient/caregiver s attitudes, feelings, beliefs, and opinions. Health care providers often ignore these aspects of patient teaching. 

In the near future new drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer s disease are expected to be licensed, and it would be extremely valuable to be able to compare them in a clear and well-defined framework. In addition, if economic evaluation is to inform health and social care providers and policy-makers about the potential impact of new interventions in practice, estimation of the value for money of these new interventions requires consideration of (a) the perceived and objective risks and benefits of care (b) attitudes of people with... 

Sociocultural, illness, and biological factors affect individual attitudes towards psychotropic medications. Health beliefs or explanatory models, particularly causal attributions regarding the illness and the treatment options afforded within such models, exert a profound influence on patients attitudes and behavior regarding medications (Smith, Lin Mendoza, 1993). Such effects can be subtle and can occur during the course of treatment even if there has been initial successful negotiation about the nature of the illness and treatment. In psychiatric illness little research has been leveled at the personal meaning that patients bring to treatment practices such as electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), oral medications, and depot injections, or to the transition between different administrative routes and types of medications. 

The availability of medications that are effective in the treatment of mental disorders, and safe even after extended use, is essential for the success of programs directed to the improvement of mental health care. It is essential but not sufficient because such programs must - if they are to be successful - also include efforts to improve knowledge, skills, and attitudes of health workers involved in the provision of mental health care additional investment into mental health programs and a... 

But in addition to considering the federal viewpoint, food manufacturers must also follow state and municipal regulations. To determine the attitude of such agencies, 244 questionnaires were sent to all state health departments and to health departments of cities whose population exceeds 50,000. The inquiries were ... 

The implementation of SFA for the tracing of hazardous substance in international informal e-waste treatment has occurred to be a useful method. As the quality of results heavily depends on the quality of input data uncertainties restrict the relevance of results. Thus the results show a direct connection between the attitude towards the treatment of e-waste in developed countries and health and environmental consequences in the receiving countries. The e-waste subject in developing... 

In prescription, as in the other areas of clinical management, doctors - key decision-makers in the health system - are to be provided with the necessary incentives, information and infrastructure to take clinical decisions in a cost-effective way. When possible, appropriate personnel selection, valuing not only skills but also attitudes, can compensate for the characteristic weakness of incentives in the health sector. This focus on selection as an organizational... 

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In communicating information about a food scare, there is recent evidence that the media might be more influential than one-on-one interactions. Empirical research conducted in April 1998 indicated that mass media had a negative impact on consumer risk perceptions, health concerns, and attitude and behavior toward meat. Compared to alarming reports of the press, personal communication (through butchers for meat products, for example) had only a small effect on consumer decision making (Verbeke et al., 1999). 

The way marketers respond to food crises should take into account whether a country s food consumption is influenced more by risk perceptions or by risk attitudes. The relative influence of risk perception and risk attitude on consumption depends, among others, on the accuracy of knowing the probability that negative health side effects could occur from eating food products. 

The following passage is an excerpt from a recent introduction to the momentous 1964 Report on Smoking and Health issued by the United States Surgeon General. It discusses the inspiration behind the report and the report s effect on public attitudes toward smoking. 

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