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Sloan Network Updates and Announcements
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 Close to 400 affiliates responded to the Sloan Network's "Family-Friendly State" poll!
The Sloan Panel meeting on “Workplace Flexibility and Health” was held on September 30, 2005 at the Sloan Foundation in New York.
We are making it easier for you to access our work-family statistics and bills & statutes! Check out our new legislative summary sheets and fact sheets!
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| Integrating Health and Wellness into Work/Life Programs |
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Catherine Devlin |
Kimberlyn Rossman
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An Interview with Catherine Devlin of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Kimberlyn S. Rossman of Aetna
by Judi Casey and Karen Corday
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Casey: How did health and well-being issues become visible at the workplace?
Devlin: Since we are in the health care industry, we are focused on putting our members’ health first. We realized that we needed to take the same approach with our employees and mirror the external approach internally. We created an integrated health management strategy called Healthy Directions for our employees that falls under the work/life umbrella.
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Increases in Health Insurance Premiums Compared to Other Indicators, 1988-2005
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Catherine Devlin and Kimberlyn S. Rossman discuss the intersection of work/life and health and wellness. |
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A graph illustrates the rising cost of health insurance premiums compared to inflation and workers’ earnings. |
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Leslie Hammer explains her and Margaret B. Neal’s research project on dual earner couples in the sandwiched generation in the Sloan Foundation Corner. |
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The Sloan Work and Family Research Network maintains an
online database which contains the citations and annotations of work-family research publications.
A year ago, there were 6,175 citations in the Literature Database. As of October 2005, we now have over 6,700 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications from those that have recently been entered into this database.
Click here to see this month's selections
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Work-Family Project
Dual-Earner Couples in the Sandwiched Generation
by Leslie Hammer and Margaret B. Neal
The purpose of our Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded national, longitudinal study of working couples caring both for dependent children and aging parents was to determine the prevalence of these couples in the U.S., to provide a profile of dual-earner couples caring both for children and aging parents, and to understand the effects of being “sandwiched” on work-family fit, well-being, and work outcomes...
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Leslie Hammer
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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., Principal Investigator |
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Judi Casey, MSW, Project Director |
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Karen Corday , MSLIS, Research Associate |
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Christina Matz, MSW and Sandee Shulkin, MSW, Co-Project Managers |
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E-mail: wfnetwork@bc.edu
Phone: 617-552-4033 / 617-552-1708
Fax: 617-552-1080
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Mailing Address:
Sloan Work and Family Research Network
Boston College
605 McGuinn Hall
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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