scholarly journals The impact of health on professionally active people's incomes in Poland. Microeconometric analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Iwona Laskowska
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Health State ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Positive Interaction ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Broad Understanding

In contemporary world human capital is one of the basic elements of development. In a broad understanding it means “the resource of knowledge, skills, health and stamina in the society” (Domański, 1993). Health, besides education, is one of the determinants of its quality. It determines work efficiency, physical and intellectual development, and conditions the average lifespan. It is the resource influencing the functioning of individuals, enterprises - having a connection with their competitiveness - and the whole economy. The impact of health on economic processes may be observed both on macroscale level and on the level of individuals. In the presented research an attempt was made to verify the hypothesis that the state of health is one of the factors determining professionally active people’s incomes. It was assumed, that there is a possibility of the health state impact on decreasing incomes, not only on their complete loss. In the analysis the micro data gathered in the research “Social Diagnosis 2009” were used. The function was estimated basing on Mincerian wage equation with the logarithm of personal income as a dependent variable and respondents characteristics (gender, work experience, practiced profession) as independent variables. Above all, however, variables connected with respondents health were included in the model. The outcome of the research confirms the occurrence of positive interaction between professionally active people’s incomes and the self-assessed state of health. People declaring a bad state of health have incomes by 20% on average lower than people who enjoy good health (assuming that the remaining characteristics of the surveyed person are the same). In case of men, the impact of health state on incomes is slightly greater than in case of women.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF HARMFUL WORKING CONDITIONS AND SMOKING ON THE HEALTH OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 646-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennadiy A. Sorokin ◽  
S. A. Syurin
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Subcutaneous Tissue ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. Currently, the main influence of adverse working conditions is manifested not only by the level of occupational morbidity and injuries but by the general state of health of employed persons. Among the most significant non-occupational exposure is tobacco smoking. The aim of the study was a comparative assessment of the influence of the factor “harmful working conditions” (Fwc) and the factor “Smoking” (Fsmo) on the prevalence and rate of development of the most frequently diagnosed chronic diseases in industrial workers. Material and methods. Working conditions, medical examination data and smoking status of 2810 Apatite-nepheline and copper-Nickel miners were studied (cross section study). Population risk (PR) and its annual increase (GPR) were studied in six classes of diseases: circulatory system (CS), digestive system (DS), genitourinary system (GUS), respiratory system (RS), musculoskeletal system (MSS), skin and subcutaneous tissue (SST), nervous system (NS). Morbidity factors were characterized by the duration of their exposure: harmful working conditions - work experience not related to age and duration of smoking; non - professional factors - age of employees not related to work experience and smoking; smoking-its duration not related to age and work experience. Results. Population rates among non-smokers and smokers, in groups with the same average age and work experience, did not differ statistically, except for CS, the frequency of which is lower in smokers. It can be assumed that these data refer to “paradoxical cases” in which the Fwc effect is masked by employee turnover. In contrast to extensive indices of PR, GPR indices of the majority of classes of diseases-accurately reveal negative influence of smoking on a state of health of miners. Conclusion. 1. For quantitative comparison of negative effects on the health of workers of Fwc and Fsmo it is necessary to use indices PR of dynamics in certain experience and age groups. 2. The impact of the Fwc on the GPR is more pronounced than Fsmo for MSS, RS, NS. The influence of Fsmo exceeds a Fwc for SST, CS and DS. 3. An annual gain in the risk of chronic diseases (except MSS), not differentiated by their classes, s in smokers is by 1.6 times more than in non-smokers.

scholarly journals Investigating the Impact of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Curriculum on Moroccan Graduates’ Career

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
Riham Belkbir
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

Knowledge of a foreign language opens new possibilities of mobility and cooperation for professionals in the contemporary world. Policy makers acknowledge the important role that foreign languages, especially English, play in the professional development of experts and try to present this language at tertiary level. Generally, an ESP course is designed to improve students’ communication skills not merely for the exam, but also for situations in a specific workplace. This paper investigates the impact that English for Specific Purposes (ESP) curriculum has on Moroccan graduates in the career experience. It also explores whether the ESP courses are more expedient in the workplace than traditional English courses, and how ESP curriculum should be reshaped to adapt the needs of the job market. The data are collected through online interviews from 6 participants whose majors were English and who graduated from Moroccan universities and all the participants have at least one year of work experience in English-speaking countries. The results of this research indicate that universities ESP curriculum design, work place, and teachers’ specific field knowledge do have notable influence on participants in the work environment. They show that the current ESP in use fails to capture the learners’ needs and skills in the workplace communication. The study divulges that there is a huge discrepancy of the perceptions of the students’ needs between the ESP teachers and employers in both academic and occupational situations.  Furthermore, the study’s findings recommended that Moroccan universities should re-design or develop their ESP curriculum to allow their students meet the future job requirements as well as supplementing extra materials through teachers’ continual needs analysis.

Public Things

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Honig
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Health State ◽  
Transitional Objects ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
State Bureaucracy ◽  
The Impact

In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and privatization is seen as a magic cure for social ills. This book asks whether democracy is possible in the absence of public services, spaces, and utilities. In other words, if neoliberalism leaves to democracy merely electoral majoritarianism and procedures of deliberation while divesting democratic states of their ownership of public things, what will the impact be? This book suggests that democracy postulates public things—infrastructure, monuments, libraries—that citizens use, care for, repair, and are gathered up by. To be “gathered up” refers to the work of D. W. Winnicott, the object relations psychoanalyst who popularized the idea of “transitional objects”—the toys, teddy bears, or favorite blankets by way of which infants come to understand themselves as unified selves with an inside and an outside in relation to others. The wager of this book is that the work transitional objects do for infants is analogously performed for democratic citizens by public things, which press us into object relations with others and with ourselves. The book attends also to the historically racial character of public things: public lands taken from indigenous peoples, access to public goods restricted to white majorities. The book underlines the material and psychological conditions necessary for object permanence and the reparative work needed for a more egalitarian democracy.

scholarly journals KARAKTERISTIK INDIVIDU, SOSIAL EKONOMI, BUDAYA DAN KESEHATAN TERHADAP PRODUKTIVITAS KERJA KARYAWAN PADA INDUSTRI KECIL DI KOTA MAKASSAR

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-567
Author(s):  
Baharuddin Semmaila
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
Small Industries ◽  
Work Ethos

This research was to identify the working hours and productivity of labors from Bugis, Toraja, and Makassar in the small industries. In detail, the aims of the research were to know: 1) the influence of individual characteristic, health status, work environment and work ethos (spirit) toward the work productivity of the small industry labors; 2) the differences  of the work productivity among ethnics in the small industries; and 3) the variables which have dominant influence toward the labors’ work productivity in the small industries. The population of this  research were  3135 labors from  garment  and furniture ready-made industries, and the samples were 302 labors. The respondents were workers and employers. The data were analyzed using multiple linear regression with SPSS and AMOS programs and then the results were  combined with the qualitative analysis. The research findings are: 1) the independent variables which influence significantly toward the work productivity of the  small industry workers are work experience,  dependency ratio, health status, weekly wages, work environment and work ethos. While the variables which do not influence the productivity  are workers’ age, sex and length of education. The independent variables which influence dominantly  toward the labor productivity are wages and health status. Good health status may indicate the increase of the productivity. And there are the significant differences of work  productivity among  labors from Bugis, Toraja, and Makassar because of their cultural effects.

scholarly journals KARAKTERISTIK INDIVIDU, SOSIAL EKONOMI, BUDAYA DAN KESEHATAN TERHADAP PRODUKTIVITAS KERJA KARYAWAN PADA INDUSTRI KECIL DI KOTA MAKASSAR

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 549
Author(s):  
Baharuddin Semmaila
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
Small Industries ◽  
Work Ethos

This research was to identify the working hours and productivity of labors from Bugis, Toraja, and Makassar in the small industries. In detail, the aims of the research were to know: 1) the influence of individual characteristic, health status, work environment and work ethos (spirit) toward the work productivity of the small industry labors; 2) the differences  of the work productivity among ethnics in the small industries; and 3) the variables which have dominant influence toward the labors’ work productivity in the small industries.The population of this  research were  3135 labors from  garment  and furniture ready-made industries, and the samples were 302 labors. The respondents were workers and employers. The data were analyzed using multiple linear regression with SPSS and AMOS programs and then the results were  combined with the qualitative analysis. The research findings are: 1) the independent variables which influence significantly toward the work productivity of the  small industry workers are work experience,  dependency ratio, health status, weekly wages, work environment and work ethos. While the variables which do not influence the productivity  are workers’ age, sex and length of education. The independent variables which influence dominantly  toward the labor productivity are wages and health status. Good health status may indicate the increase of the productivity. And there are the significant differences of work  productivity among  labors from Bugis, Toraja, and Makassar because of their cultural effects.

scholarly journals SANITARY-HYGIENIC CHARACTERISTIC OF WORKING CONDITIONS AND STATE OF HEALTH OF TEACHERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
I.V. Savushina
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Clinical Method ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Vocal Apparatus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Voice

Relevance. The main causes, which cause voice disruption in teachers can be divided into biological, professional, everyday, psychological. Combinations of two or more factors are possible. Objective. To carry out an analysis of working conditions and the state of health of teachers of general educational institutions in the city of Krivoy Rog.Materials and methods. The analysis of working conditions is carried out sanitary-hygienic method. The state of health of teachers is investigated by a clinical method. Results. The working conditions of teachers are characterized as tense and heavy, and in terms of labor intensity indicators belong to class 3.3, microclimate and equivalent noise level to class 3.1. Chronic catarrhal laryngitis is 131,00±15,07 cases, hypertrophic laryngitis – 190,20±22,61 cases. The critical work experience under the conditions of the impact of the voice load is 10-19 years, accounting for 60 % of cases of professional laryngitis. Conclusions. Analysis of working conditions, the duration of the voice load and the levels of the pathology of the vocal apparatus open up prospects for determining the risk of developing professional laryngitis in teachers and developing modern methods of treatment and prevention.

scholarly journals SANITARY-HYGIENIC CHARACTERISTIC OF WORKING CONDITIONS AND STATE OF HEALTH OF TEACHERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
I.V. Savushina
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Clinical Method ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Vocal Apparatus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Voice

Relevance. The main causes, which cause voice disruption in teachers can be divided into biological, professional, everyday, psychological. Combinations of two or more factors are possible. Objective. To carry out an analysis of working conditions and the state of health of teachers of general educational institutions in the city of Krivoy Rog.Materials and methods. The analysis of working conditions is carried out sanitary-hygienic method. The state of health of teachers is investigated by a clinical method. Results. The working conditions of teachers are characterized as tense and heavy, and in terms of labor intensity indicators belong to class 3.3, microclimate and equivalent noise level to class 3.1. Chronic catarrhal laryngitis is 131,00±15,07 cases, hypertrophic laryngitis – 190,20±22,61 cases. The critical work experience under the conditions of the impact of the voice load is 10-19 years, accounting for 60 % of cases of professional laryngitis. Conclusions. Analysis of working conditions, the duration of the voice load and the levels of the pathology of the vocal apparatus open up prospects for determining the risk of developing professional laryngitis in teachers and developing modern methods of treatment and prevention.

The Need to Belong and the Relationship Between Loneliness and Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freda-Marie Hartung ◽  
Britta Renner
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Health State ◽  
Need To Belong ◽  
First Year University ◽  
Perceived Social Isolation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Humans are social animals; consequently, a lack of social ties affects individuals’ health negatively. However, the desire to belong differs between individuals, raising the question of whether individual differences in the need to belong moderate the impact of perceived social isolation on health. In the present study, 77 first-year university students rated their loneliness and health every 6 weeks for 18 weeks. Individual differences in the need to belong were found to moderate the relationship between loneliness and current health state. Specifically, lonely students with a high need to belong reported more days of illness than those with a low need to belong. In contrast, the strength of the need to belong had no effect on students who did not feel lonely. Thus, people who have a strong need to belong appear to suffer from loneliness and become ill more often, whereas people with a weak need to belong appear to stand loneliness better and are comparatively healthy. The study implies that social isolation does not impact all individuals identically; instead, the fit between the social situation and an individual’s need appears to be crucial for an individual’s functioning.

Analisis Pengaruh Penerimaan Pajak Daerah Dan Retribusi Daerah Terhadap Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kabupaten/Kota Di Jawa Tengah

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Beta Asteria
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Government Budget ◽  
Multiple Regressions ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Fiscal Balance ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Local Government Budget ◽  
The Impact

This research deals with the impact of Local Tax and Retribution Receipt to Local Government Original Receipt of Regency/City in Central Java from 2008 to 2012. This research utilizes the data of actual of local government budget from Directorate General of Fiscal Balance (Direktorat Jendral Perimbangan Keuangan). Methods of collecting data through census. The number of Regency/City in Central Java are 35. But the data consists of 33 of Regency/City In Central Java from 2008 to 2012. Total of samples are 165. Karanganyar Regency and Sukoharjo Regency were not included as samples of this research because they didn’t report the data of actual of local government budget to Directorate General of Fiscal Balance in 2009.The model used in this research is multiple regressions. The independent variables are Local Tax and Retribution Receipt, the dependent variable is Local Government Original Receipt. The research findings show that Local Tax and Retribution give the significant impact partially and simultaneusly on Local Government Original Receipt at real level 5 percent. All independent variables explain 91,90 percent of the revenue variability while the rest 8,10 percent is explained by other variables.Keywords: Local Tax, Retribution, and Local Government Original Receipt

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