Not working alone at night, outside lights can cut workplace homicides, study shows
...micides had not occurred. Detailed interviews with managers of the businesses, police and others -- along with computerized analyses and comparisons of workplace characteristics -- produced evidence of steps promoting worker safety. Among environmental interventions, strong and consistent reductions in the ...HFES releases new multiperspective book on team activities
...hologists, engineers, designers, sociologists, and managers to adapt to the trends and challenges that are forthcoming in this area" (from the Preface). Topics include features of team coordination, team situational awareness, computer support for cooperative supervisory control, shared cognition, use of a k...Extreme precipitation linked to waterborne disease outbreaks
...blic Health. "Such research will be vital to water managers and public health planners."...Parents benefit by accompanying children on ambulance trips between hospitals
...ldren. A companion study, surveying transport team managers throughout the United States, found no consensus among providers on the desirability of allowing parents to accompany their children on such transports. However, neither study found evidence that the parents presence interfered with effective medical...Wake Forest professor to evaluate managed care patient protection laws
...rs, insurance agents, and private lawyers and with managers and lawyers at national, regional and local health plans. These two efforts will occupy much of the study's second year. In the third year, the projects will be analyzed and the results widely disseminated to the news media, public policy an......Soil. As well as tending their vines, vineyard managers must also deal with the 70% of vineyard space that...cultural practice. "In the long term, vineyard managers will need to have alternatives to herbicides in controlling weeds, and for organic growers, a wider ...Scientists declare global warming and human impacts are combining destructive forces on coral reefs
...e coral bleaching and ideas for helping coral reef managers prevent degradation by more local forces such as blast and cyanide fishing. Surprising findings include the partial but rapid recovery of some reefs from the 1997-98 El Nino, in part due to the recently discovered diversity of algae that can live eve...CDC funds will enable UNC-CH to help minimize domestic violence in flood areas
...will be training lay health advisers and workplace managers how to minimize domestic violence at home and in the workplace, Benedict said. Much of the grant money will go directly to local communities in salary support for community coordinators. Most women who will benefit work in factories producing clothi...NIDA clinical toolbox provides the latest information about drug treatment strategies
...nt, up-to-date resource for program counselors and managers contains: Three therapy manuals on treatment of cocaine addiction, which highlight the "cognitive-behaviorial," "community reinforcement plus vouchers," and "individual counseling" approaches. Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling Principles of Dr...AAPS workshop to explore pharmaceutical reference standards
... will also provide more experienced scientists and managers a forum for discussion." The objective of the workshop is to provide an update on current and emerging issues in the development, characterization and use of reference standards. The workshop will be of particular interest to pharmaceutical scientis...UNC-CH study finds N.C. outpatient heart rehabilitation programs mostly under-used
... the possibilities are increased use of nurse case managers who offer counseling and often can monitor heart rhythms over the telephone, she said. Patients need to check with their health maintenance organizations or insurance carriers and doctors to find out whether outpatient cardiac rehabilitation is cover...Chronic disease: the overlooked & understudied epidemic
...nge their own risky behaviors and to become better managers of their own health conditions," he said. Other researchers featured in the issue state that the patient should be the primary manager of chronic disease, guided and coached by a doctor or other practitioner to devise the best therapeutic regimen. B...UCSF Psychiatry Department receives grant to study innovative drug and substance abuse treatments
...opened. The grant will also be used to train case managers on how to treat their client's drug abuse-whilemee...elter, food and making sure they are safe. Thecase managers work in mental health programs run by the City and County of San Francisco. Afterreceiving the train...New study shows abuse homicides more common than records reveal
...team; Sarah Verbiest and Pamela J.Carlson, project managers for the study; Elizabeth G. Hooten, statistician inthe Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; Eleanor Howell, statistician at theN.C. Center for Health Statistics; and Dr. John D. Butts, N.C. chief medicalexaminer and clinical professor of pathology a...Workplace environment can improve eating habits
...d Biener. "For example, they encouraged cafeteria managers and vendingmachine companies to include more low-fat, high-fiber snacks among theirofferings and to put nutritional labels in prominent places. Competitions wereheld in which employees modified traditional family recipes to meet low-fathigh-fiber cr...Information technology is key to decreasing surgery costs, UI researcher finds
...ave developed software that hospital operatingroom managers can use with their existing information systems to identify howmuch down time the staff is experiencing and why. "What the software will do is let you know what the source of the problems isand how much it is costing the operating room," Dexter said...Risk factors for women remain high one year after heart surgery
...ges and manage risk factors," she says."Nurse case managers could be hired as part of group practices to ensure riskfactor modification. Cardiologists, primary care physicians and nursepractitioners need to play a key role in preventing future cardiac problems inpatients." Allen says health care pr...Disabilities Don't Raise Insurance Costs
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A new survey of human resource managers has found thatcompanies' health, life and disability insurance costs rarely rise because ofhiring employees with disabilities, but that attitudinal stereotypes aboutpeople with disabilities are still pervasive in the workplace, causing them tobe hire...Management Academy To Boost Training For Local, State Public Health Departments
...then management skills of 600 senior-and mid-level managers in local and state public health departments acrossGeorgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Participants will study inChapel Hill as well as in their home communities via distance learning and theInternet. Grant funds over four years wil...Fructose Consumption May Accelerate Aging: Skin's Elasticity And Softness May Be Affected
...Techniongraduates, as are most of the founders and managers of its high-tech industries. The university's 11,000 students and 700 faculty study and work in theTechnion's 19 faculties and 30 research centers and institutes in Haifa. The American Technion Society (ATS) is the university's support organization i...