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Emergency Medicine News
Violence — verbal and physical — is an everyday occurrence in America's emergency departments, so commonplace that those who experience it tend to downplay it. "There isn't a single individual within the ED that I think is immune to it," said Terry Kowalenko, M.D., the chair of emergency medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in Rochester, MI, who has written multiple articles on workplace violence in emergency medicine, including an analysis in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. "No matter your gender, your job title, or any other factor, you're not immune to it. And studies have shown that it's not related to the type of ED you work in. You are at risk for violence in a rural or urban ED and everything else in between."
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University of Utah
Suicidal behavior among active-duty service members can be reduced for up to six months with a relatively simple intervention that gives them concrete steps to follow during an emotional crisis, according to a new study from the University of Utah's National Center for Veterans Studies.
The study's findings show there was a 75 percent reduction in suicide attempts among participants who engaged in crisis response planning versus a contract for safety. Crisis response planning also was associated with a significantly faster decline in suicidal thoughts and fewer inpatient hospitalization days.
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Health Affairs
Much of the recent attention on the future of the Affordable Care Act has focused on the fate of the 22.5 million people likely to lose insurance through a repeal of Medicaid expansion and the loss of protections and subsidies in the individual insurance market. Overlooked in the declarations of who stands to lose under plans to "repeal and replace" the ACA are those enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans — the primary source of coverage for people under 65.
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Harvard Business Review
Unlimited leave. Executive coaches for new mothers. Food takeout vouchers. "Flying nannies" who join their executive employers on business trips. In their efforts to do the right thing and woo talent, organizations of all kinds are reaching for headline-grabbing solutions. But what if your organization can't offer glossy, cutting-edge benefits? What if they're too costly, don't work structurally, fly in the face of your corporate culture — or don't have senior management's support?
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Corporate Wellness Magazine
One of the most prevalent concerns of today is the world's population aging at an unprecedented rate. According to the United Nations WPA 2015 report, 617 million people i.e. 8.5 percent of individuals worldwide are aged over 65. This percentage will increase to 17 percent (1.6 billion) by 2050. A major problem encountered by the aging population is that they are more prone to diseases like Dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Unlike Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Dementia is not a single disease but a host of mental illnesses that include symptoms like memory loss, difficulty in thinking, problem-solving, and loss of motor skills, personality changes, hallucinations, and paranoia.
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Mic
The average U.S. work week of 47 hours could be harmful to mental health — especially for women, at least according to a new report from researchers in Australia who studied the effects of long hours in the office.
That's because after 39 hours of weekly work mental health starts to decline, the researchers found after analyzing responses from about 8,000 workers in a survey of household income labor dynamics.
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Yale News
A new Yale-led study of adolescents and young adults at high risk of taking their own lives — those suffering from bipolar disorder — implicates specific differences in the brains of those who attempt suicide and those who do not, researchers report Jan. 31 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
"Suicide is a leading cause of death of adolescents and young adults, and we can't move on this issue fast enough," said Hilary Blumberg, the John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience, professor in psychiatry, radiology, and biomedical imaging and in the Yale Child Study Center, and senior author of the study.
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FedSmith.com
Most of us associate bullying with children and schools. Rarely do we think of adults at a professional workplace. However, approximately 27 percent of American adults have past or current experience with bullying in the workplace. The actual numbers are most likely significantly higher.
Due to its psychological nature, bullying is often difficult to detect and can easily be confused with workplace conflict.
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Yahoo
If you'd describe your workplace as psychologically safe, with civil relationships and satisfactory work/life balance, it just may be due to a major shift in how employers understand and respond to workplace mental health issues.
In 2016, 77 percent of working Canadians indicated attitudes toward workplace mental health issues are better than they were in 2007. Additionally, those Canadians who say their workplace is psychologically unhealthy or unsafe (10 percent) has been cut in half, down from 20 percent in 2009.
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