Essay On Health Workforce

Different people look at health in different ways. It can depend on their culture, environment, religion or age group. In order to have a clear understanding about how the people look at health, I have conducted a survey from a random sample of people who belongs to the above groups (e.g. people of different ages have been chosen).

Westmount Nursing Inc. is a for profit chain with seven different nursing homes. It has a grown from a small few bed facility to a facility with 4 different divisions that made to help make seniors more independent. The Westmount Nursing Homes were in search for a chief executive officer and president, which was filled by Shirley Carpenter. After Shirley Carpenter came on to the company, many changes were made and implemented. Some implementations were successfully, but she was also challenged with many problems with the Union Federation of Nurses and the Board of directors regarding wages and total quality management implementation. My recommendation would be for Shirley to stop the implementation of total quality management and focus on

“Low-wage workers are the least likely to have access to paid time off” (Appelbaum & Milkman, 2009). While there are many benefits to implementing a paid time off system, there are some drawbacks also. First, employees may be reluctant to take paid time off when they are sick so they can save their paid time off for vacation leave. This means that despite having paid time off at their disposal, employees will come to work sick instead of taking a sick day. Then the sick employee spread their germs to co-workers and now two or three people are at risk of missing work. Some employees believe that in order to be a hard worker, you have to come to work. The workplace is a direct route of disease transmission. If one employee comes to work sick

Task 1 requires you to submit a written piece of work covering all learning outcomes (LO1s, LO2s & LO3s) with a reflective account embedded in the context of work.

Given the evidence presented above that not having this le creates problems not only for workers but also for employers, family members and communities. Despite this, the adequacy of paid sick leave policy coverage varies considerably among occupations. For example, 88% of private sector managers and financial workers have access to paid leave; more than double the rate among service workers at 40% percent and construction workers 38%.5

According to the study done by Gallup, Inc. (2010), “Businesses big and small are realizing the importance of their role in the health and wellbeing of their employees.  Healthy employees are more productive, report higher job satisfaction and lead to higher employee retention rates.  The monetary benefits of providing for employees' wellbeing are immense; and a comprehensive corporate wellness plan can dramatically reduce health insurance costs and premiums, sick days and employee turnover.”

Sick leave is a significant policy for both employees and employers in modern businesses. This policy can be problematic for Australian business, as employees that aren’t sick are taking leave. These illegitimate claims are causing them to lose millions of dollars. In the case study “sick leave costing employers” it is exploring the use of this leave in organisations by employees, when not sick. Since this is affecting Australian Businesses, to prevent further loss, it is necessary to explore what is causing these claims, which is crucial to understanding how to limit its impact upon organisations.

Everyone has gotten sick or will get sick more once in their life. When employees fall ill, it is very likely that will take time away from work until they recover. Of course, this is a good idea, but what some may not realize is how much businesses lose when they constantly have employees taking off work to tend to their sickness. To fully understand just how much germs

The business community is not opposed to paid leave, as it is recorded that over fifty percent of working U.S. citizen have paid leave and paid vacation, according to the Labor Department. The National

The movement of healthcare workers from one country to another has shaped many nations economic standing. There are positives and negatives for the country receiving these new workers as well as the countries losing them. I conducted an interview with a current clinical pathologist who received her education in IRAN, but migrated to the U.S for a better opportunity. She is currently working for UCLA in California earning more than she would have if she stayed in IRAN. I learned a lot from her and really was able to understand way people from underdeveloped countries decide to come the U.S for a better quality of life.

Wellness programs can provide substantial benefits for employers by improving employees’ health thus lowering health care costs, reducing absenteeism, achieving higher productivity, reducing workers’ compensation and disability-related costs (Baicker et al., 2010). According to the study by the American Journal of Health Promotion in 2011, employers who offer wellness programs to their employees have paid 15 percent less for their health care costs than employers who have not (Hochart & Lang, 2011). Moreover, based on the review of 72 studies published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, return of investment (ROI) for companies who sponsor wellness programs is $3.48 per $1 when considering health care costs, $5.82 when examining absenteeism and $4.30 when both health care costs and absenteeism are considered (Mattke et al., 2012). Furthermore, according to this review, the company with the highest performing wellness program reported an average cost savings of $565 per employee in 2013. The results also demonstrated that for every dollar spent on employee wellness programs, medical costs fell by $3.27 for companies (Schmidt, 2012). Also, according to the Wellness Council of America, by implementing wellness programs, companies reduce sick-leave absenteeism by an average of 26.8 percent; reduce health care costs by 26 percent and reduce worker’s compensation and disability management claims costs by 32

Historical data on the effect of employee wellness programs on productivity includes measuring absenteeism, workers’ compensation absences, short- and long-term disability outcomes, as well as

Health and wellness in the workplace is crucial to business success. Healthy employees are more productive and they cost less. The quality of health is intimately connected to the quality of life. Companies that promote healthy lifestyle habits for employees to improve their health, often take the success of the company to heart and are likely to be absent less often for health related reasons. Employers are now offering a wide range of wellness initiatives; such as health risk screenings and assessments, healthy food choices in cafeterias and vending machines; weigh management programs on-site at employers' expense, subsidized or discounted off-site fitness courses, smoking cessation programs,

The CBI has estimated that sickness absence in the UK costs £11 billion per year. Any reduction in sickness absence would represent a significant saving for organizations. The Chubb Group insurance companies reported a reduction in absences from 12,120 days per year to 10,549 days per year following the introduction of a paid time off policy for family illness (Dex and Sheibl, 1999).

The health sector in NZ requires attention as New Zealand needs an increase in the amount of hospital buildings and services so that it is more convenient and most families will have a hospital close by. Having the government increase it’s spending in the health sector would increase the (G) part of the AD equation which stands for government spending meaning the government is spending its own revenue in the health sector to improve its services to the public. In the short term builders will be employed to build the hospitals in the first place and will raise employment. In the long term hospital staff such as nurses, doctors and chefs will be employed and will be placed into the up and coming hospitals which therefore increases employment of New Zealand.