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- Fortune 500 employees can expect to pay more for health insurance
- Smartphone app reveals users' mental health, performance, behavior
- Living in disadvantaged neighborhood worsens musculoskeletal pain outcomes after trauma exposure
| Fortune 500 employees can expect to pay more for health insurance Posted: 18 Sep 2014 10:09 AM PDT A new survey is the first factual collection of data on how firms have been impacted by PPACA and how they are responding to the rising costs they report. More than 200 responded to this year's survey, providing a definitive look at how medium and large-sized firms have been affected by the changes to the health insurance and health care system and how companies have responded. |
| Smartphone app reveals users' mental health, performance, behavior Posted: 18 Sep 2014 09:14 AM PDT Researchers have built the first smartphone app that automatically reveals college students' mental health, academic performance and behavioral trends. In other words, your smartphone knows your state of mind -- even if you don't -- and how that affects you. The StudentLife app, which compares students' happiness, stress, depression and loneliness to their academic performance, also may be used in the general population -- for example, to monitor mental health, trigger intervention and improve productivity in workplace employees. |
| Living in disadvantaged neighborhood worsens musculoskeletal pain outcomes after trauma exposure Posted: 18 Sep 2014 07:13 AM PDT People living in lower-income neighborhoods have worse musculoskeletal pain outcomes over time after stressful events such as motor vehicle collisions than people from higher-income neighborhoods, a new study finds. |
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