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The broad objective of this paper is to determine the effect of work-life balance on performance of female medical practitioners of federal government owned medical centres in Edo state. Specifically, this study seeks to ascertain the effect of employee support on the commitment of married female medical practitioners of university of Benin teaching hospital and Irrua specialist teaching hospital. Survey research design was adopted for the study, a sample size of two hundred and eighty (280) was used for the study, Krejcie and Morgan, (1970) sampling technique was used for the study, the data collection tool employed by the researchers was the questionnaire, while the analysis of the data was done using the linear regression analysis. The findings revealed that employee support impacts the commitment of married female medical practitioners of university of Benin teaching hospital and Irrua specialist teaching hospital, Edo state since (F = 964.986; R2 = 0.836; P <.05). The researchers therefore concluded that work-life balance impacts employee performance of the institutions in focus. Based on the foregoing, the researchers recommended the enactment of favourable work-life balance policies by the institutions in focus and the approval of emergency leave for female (married) medical practitioners of the institutions in focus because of their role in the family.

Credibility -- Confidence -- Rapport -- Expectation -- Directives (An Overview) -- Images -- Believability -- Literal Interpretation -- Enthusiasm -- Managing "Pain" ("Discomfort") -- Stopping Bleeding -- Cardiovascular Emergencies -- Hypnotic Treatment for Burns -- Respiratory Diseases -- Anaphylaxis -- Childbirth and Pediatric Emergencies -- Psychological Emergencies -- Self-Hypnosis -- The Planetary Emergency.

Progress in surgical technology and in postoperative therapy has remarkably increased life expectation after heart transplantation. Nevertheless, patients still show a resistance to resume a normal life after transplantation, for example, to return to work. In this study we assume that after surgery patients become risk averse because they achieve a positive frame of reference. Because of this propensity toward risk aversion, they withhold from engaging in behavior that their physical condition would allow them in principle. Coherent with this assumption we found that compared to the medical team patients overestimate the degree of risk for routine activities. The study also showed that the representation of risk by the patients could be captured by a dreadfulness factor and a voluntariness factor. Patients' risk judgments were strongly and specifically predicted by the perceived degree of dreadfulness of the activity and, to a lesser extent, by the perceived knowledge of the consequences. Implications for patient-physician communication were explored.

This is the course book for a new ALSG course on preparation for and medical management of major incidents within the hospital. It will be a companion volume to MIMMS, which deals with the prehospital situation, and will meet an ever increasing need as natural and other disasters affect hospital staff and administrators. The course aims to provide a systematic approach for all personnel who would be involved in managing a major incident in the hospital. This title is now available for the PDA, powered by Skyscape - to buy your copy Click here

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- About the contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: a genealogy of medical materialities -- Part I Flesh and fluids -- 2 Of flesh and mesh: time, materiality, and health in surgical recovery -- 3 From attitudes to materialities: understanding bowel control for colorectal cancer patients in London -- 4 The life course of labia: female genital cutting in Somaliland -- 5 On 'being the problem': the ontological choreography of the infertile male -- Part II Infrastructures of care -- 6 Blood, lungs, and passports -- 7 'Time for tea': tea practices and care in a British hospice -- 8 'Regenerative medicine event': cells, soybeans, and a repurposing of ritual in Japan -- 9 The form that flattens -- Part III Health publics -- 10 On becoming a vegetable: life, nature, and healing for a hylozoic cult -- 11 Making the body local: the suburban shitizen -- 12 Of smoke and unguents: health affordances of sacred materiality -- 13 How photographs 'empower' bodies to act differently -- Part IV Responses -- Response: medical materialities, (post)genomics, and the biosocial -- Response: medical materialities, collections, and artefacts -- Index

The nature of health in later life has conventionally been studied from two perspectives. Medical sociologists have focused on the failing body, chronic illness, infirmity and mortality, while social gerontologists on the other hand have focused on the epidemiology of old age and health and social policy. By examining these perspectives, Higgs and Jones show how both standpoints have a restricted sense of contemporary ageing which has prevented an understanding of the way in which health in later life has changed.