J Health Organ Manag
November 2024
Purpose: The objective of this article is to make an exploratory study about European public administrations (public administration, public agencies, public law entities, entities dependent on the public administration and public universities) in relation to workplace health promotion interventions. The sample was extracted from the ESENER-3 (Third European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks) (EU-OSHA, 2019) and consists of 7,981 public entities from the EU-27 countries. Four WHPI have been studied: healthy nutrition interventions, sports activities after working hours, back exercises at work and prevention of addictions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe workplace is evolving towards scenarios where humans are acquiring a more active and dynamic role alongside increasingly intelligent machines. Moreover, the active population is ageing and consequently emerging risks could appear due to health disorders of workers, which requires intelligent intervention both for production management and workers' support. In this sense, the innovative and smart systems oriented towards monitoring and regulating workers' well-being will become essential.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe increasing capacity of today's technology represents great advances in diagnosing diseases using standard procedures supported by computer science. Deep learning techniques are able to extract the characteristics of temporal signals to study their patterns and diagnose diseases such as essential tremor. However, these techniques require a large amount of data to train the neural network and achieve good results, and the more data the network has, the more accurate the final model implemented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmong neural disorders related to movement, essential tremor has the highest prevalence; in fact, it is twenty times more common than Parkinson's disease. The drawing of the Archimedes' spiral is the gold standard test to distinguish between both pathologies. The aim of this paper is to select non-linear biomarkers based on the analysis of digital drawings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe innovativeness of the traditional construction sector, composed of construction companies or contractors, is not one of its strong points. Likewise, its poor productivity in comparison with other sectors, such as manufacturing, has historically been criticized. Similar features are found in the Spanish traditional construction sector, which it has been described as not very innovative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the appropriateness of applying "manufacturing sector" quality management strategies to residential care homes sector and to analyze its influence on the quality of care.
Design/methodology/approach: Observation and in-depth interviews were conducted with 41 Spanish care home top and middle managers, consultants and employees.
Findings: The quality management paradigm based on ISO 9001 has certain shortcomings in the elderly residential care home sector.