Health and Efficiency

Health and Efficiency

Author: Steffan Blayney

Publisher: Activist Studies of Science &

Published: 2022-07-29

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781625346490

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A new model of health emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939. Centered on the working body, organized around the concept of efficiency, and grounded in scientific understandings of human labor, scientists, politicians, and capitalists of the era believed that national economic productivity could be maximized by transforming the body of the worker into a machine. At the core of this approach was the conviction that worker productivity was intimately connected to worker health. Under this new ?science of work,? fatigue was seen as the ultimate pathology of the working-class body, reducing workers? capacity to perform continued physical or mental labor. As Steffan Blayney shows, the equation between health and efficiency did not go unchallenged. While biomedical and psychological experts sought to render the body measurable, governable, and intelligible, ordinary men and women found ways to resist the logics of productivity and efficiency imposed on them, and to articulate alternative perspectives on work, health, and the body.


Efficiency Measurement in Health and Health Care

Efficiency Measurement in Health and Health Care

Author: Bruce Hollingsworth

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0415271371

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This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much of the literature in this area is confusing and impregnable, Hollingsworth and Peacock show the logical links between the economic theory underlying efficiency, the methods used in analysis and practical application of measurement techniques including Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontiers Analysis. The book outlines which methods are most suitable in which setting, how to specify valid models, and how to undertake a study and effectively disseminate results. The current state of the art is assessed in terms of methods and published applications, and undertakes practical applications of advanced methods, including analysis of economies of scale and scope, variable weightings, specification testing, and estimation of the efficient production of health. Finally, the way forward in efficiency measurement in health is outlined, mapping out an agenda for future research and policy development.


Occupational Health and the Service Member

Occupational Health and the Service Member

Author: Timothy M. Mallon

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2019-04-03

Total Pages: 989

ISBN-13: 0160949645

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This book will relate the history of occupational health efforts in each of the military services and describe the current programs, including discussion of the occurrence and prevention of occupational threats to service members and civilians from the environment and military equipment. Individual chapters will focus on: medical evaluations, workers’ compensation, surveillance, ergonomics, hearing protection, radiation, specific hazardous substances, and particular environments such as aerospace and underseas. It is a revised, updated, and expanded version of the occupational health Textbook of Military Medicine published in 1993.


Monthly Labor Review

Monthly Labor Review

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1953

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13:

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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.