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Breakthrough infections raise health, death risk; vaccine passports without testing allow cases to be missed
"Vaccine passports" that exempt vaccinated people from regular COVID-19 testing would allow many infections to be missed, Israeli data suggest.
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Happier, healthier, hybrid: MIT research finds hybrid work schedules promote employee well-being
"Business leaders are overlooking a powerful tool to improve their employees' health: their organizations' own practices and policies.”
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Stop scapegoating care workers
"After a two-year pandemic ... there is an understandable desire to blame someone for the appalling death toll from COVID-19."
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Fact-checking COVID-19 posts isn't working. There's a better way.
“It's not necessarily that users don't care about accuracy. But instead, it's that the social media context just distracts them … "
IWER
The Work Design for Health Toolkit for Employers
Developed by researchers from Harvard and the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), this new toolkit describes how to create work environments that foster employee well-being.
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Companies need to confront how work conditions affect the well-being of their employees
"To truly build a healthier future of work, employers will need to address how their own management practices contribute to employee ill health."
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Home health aides, who help elderly and disabled people, are in short supply
...better training and expanded duties for home health aides...will help the elderly manage chronic conditions and stay out of [the] hospital.
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7 strategies to improve your employees' health and well-being
" ... research has found that the design of work can have substantial effects on employee well-being and health as well as health care expenses."
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'We're aides, not maids.' How one high-demand job shows education system's failings
Prof. Paul Osterman argues for expanding the duties of home health aides.