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Medicine, Preventive. --- Preventive health services.

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Medicine, Preventive --- Health promotion --- Preventive health services --- Preventive Medicine. --- Health Promotion. --- Preventive Health Services. --- Health promotion. --- Medicine, Preventive. --- Preventive health services. --- Public Health - General

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Medicaid. --- Preventive health services for children --- Child health services --- Utilization --- Evaluation.

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The health service in Norway employs nine percent of the working population. This means that 286,000 people work in the health and caring sector; of that, a total 84 percent are women. In the last three months of 2012, medically prescribed sick leave was 8.6 percent for women and 5 percent for men. The objective of the systematic review was to synthesise research into the effectiveness of interventions designed to prevent sick leave and disability retirement for employees in the health and caring services. We have included twelve randomised controlled trials with a total of more than 2000 participants where the studies reported sick leave as an outcome. The research evidence shows that:1. It is uncertain if either physical fitness training or integrated emotion-oriented care is effective in reducing sick leave for emloyees working in nursing or caring homes2. Influenza vaccination may make little or no difference on sick leave among employees in hospitals3. It is uncertain if physical fitness training alone, physical fitness in combination with transfer technique, physical fitness and back belts, incremental supportive schemes for sick leave, cognitive behavioural therapy or process consultation are effective in reducing sick leave among employees in hospitals. None of the studies reported disability retirement as an outcome. In general, the results from the included studies did not show any statistically significant difference between the differing interventions. One should however, be careful in making the assumption that no documentation of difference equates to documenting that there is no difference. Most of the studies had few participants and large variations.

Medical personnel --- Sick leave. --- Disability evaluation. --- Preventive health services. --- Health and hygiene.

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Each of us is, to a certain extent, dangerous to his or her own health, but how far do we want the government to curb our freedom to be "foolish"? In a look at such highly charged health issues as smoking, alcohol, road safety, and AIDS, Howard Leichter analyzes the efforts of the United States and Great Britain to confront the seemingly constant tension involved with this question. Leichter contends that both governments are now paying less attention to providing access to health care and more to forcing or encouraging people to change their behavior. The result has been a transformation of health politics from a largely consensual to a largely conflictual enterprise: health promotion policies often provoke debate on issues filled with scientific uncertainties, while taking on the quality of a disagreeable moral crusade. A primary concern of this book is to account for the differences, as well as the similarities, between the two countries in their public health policies. Leichter examines, for example, why seat belt regulation flourished in the American states even when federal action was blocked while, in Britain's more concentrated political structure, similar regulation faced a tortuous political path through the Lords and Commons. Finding that the United States is more apt to use formal regulation and that Britain tends toward voluntary agreement, Leichter compares the two approaches. Neither government avoids conflict, he maintains, but regulation, despite its problems, is more effective.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Health promotion --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Government policy --- Political aspects