Background: There are only a few national and international studies on the health of third-level professor lecturers at universities and colleges. Work-related diseases are important and relevant for occupational medicine. The aim of the study was to examine the mental health and work-related behavior and experience patterns of Ukrainian university lecturers in age group comparisons. Methods: Data were collected from 81 Ukrainian university lecturers (General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Questionnaire on Work-Related Behavior and Experience Patterns (AVEM)). The university lecturers were split into 4 age groups. Results: 9.9% of higher education lecturers reported impaired mental health (GHQ-12). In all, 64.8% of the total sample showed AVEM risk patterns. There were differences in age groups (third age group scoring lower than the first age group on the GHQ total score). The first age group had significantly lower opinions of the subjective importance of work on their personal lives compared to the third and fourth age group, while the second age group had significantly lower opinions compared to the fourth age group. All individuals with impaired mental health in GHQ-12 had AVEM risk patterns. Conclusions: These results offer novel insights into the health of Ukrainian university lecturers. Occupational healthcare practitioners should take them into consideration in order to initiate appropriate interventions.
Nine (11.5%) of respondents had a risk of burnout syndrome and 28 (35.9%) had some symptoms. In the group, aged 45 years and older, the risk of burnout syndrome was not identified. The staff of Emergency Medical Ambulance Service is characterized by stable personality features. It is necessary to identify the prevalence of burnout syndrome and also to identity the causes for its prevention and development of measures on the increase of personal stress resilience.
The article presents the author's measuring method for the effectiveness of the functioning processes the system's components based on the models of the efficiency components in terms of the energy approach and reports the applied aspects of its application. The three types of the rates for measurement effectiveness of the processes functioning system' components outlined in previously published author's works, were analyzed. The newest approaches to a method of measurement of newly created authoritative rates for effectiveness of components of process of functioning of system are presented. These approaches are based on the use of the share of profits and cost of processes in total production, and are implemented on the examples of specific industrial enterprises. The technique of approaches differs slightly from the technique used in the examples presented in the previous author's work, making it more accurate. In this sense, innovation lies in the fact that our approaches solve the problem of simultaneous measurement of the efficiency of the system components (using the effectiveness rates of the three indicated types) regardless of the units of measurement of their total, net production and costs, since all this boils down to a dimensionless unit of measurement of the share of benefits and of the share of costs in their total production, moreover, the average values of the effectiveness rates of the functioning of the components of the system to some extent (approximately) can be considered as characteristics of the corresponding rates for the process of the functioning of the system. The examples show the practical implementation of this technology.Keywords: System components • Energy approach • Energy products of the process of the system functioning • Total, clean, cost and scale products of the process • Rates of the effectiveness for process • Scale, effectiveness and efficiency of the process • Models of components of efficiency of Burennikova (Polishchuk) -Yarmolenko
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