Working Health Services Scotland: a 4-year evaluation.
Summary of "Working Health Services Scotland: a 4-year evaluation."
Working Health Service Scotland (WHSS) supports the self-employed and employees of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland with a health condition affecting their ability to work, who are either absent or at risk of becoming absent due to it.
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Name: Occupational medicine (Oxford, England)
ISSN: 1471-8405
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- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29390161
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqx186
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Health Services Research
The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Health Personnel
Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
Working Poor
People who are in the labor force either working or looking for work for 27 weeks or more in a year, but whose income fall below a given poverty line.
Rural Health Services
Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.
Urban Health Services
Health services, public or private, in urban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.
