Be emotionally attached to your work

Thomas Clausen from National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues looked at how AOC affected psychological well-being and other health-related outcomes in approximately 5,000 Danish eldercare workers, organised into 300 groups.

Source: http://wonderwoman.intoday.in/story/be-emotionally-attached-to-your-work-for-good-mental-health/1/122479.html

Efforts to increase affective organisational commitment (AOC) - the employee's emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in the organisation - may lead to a happier, healthier workforce, and possibly contribute to reducing employee turnover, the study said.
 

Health care and social care costs of Pneumonia

Pneumonia is a frequent lung infection and a serious illness, which is often diagnosed among patients hospitalized with acute exacerbations of COPD. The aim of this study was to estimate the attributable costs due to pneumonia among patients hospitalized with pneumonia compared to a matched general population control group without pneumonia hospitalization.

Source: https://www.dovepress.com/health-care-and-social-care-costs-of-pneumonia-in-denmark-a-register-b-peer-reviewed-article-COPD

This study includes citizens older than 18 years from three municipalities (n=142,344). Based on national registers and municipal data, the health and social care costs of pneumonia in the second half of 2013 are estimated and compared with propensity score-matched population controls.

 

How do Denmark and the US differ?

Mr Sanders is glowing in his depiction of Denmark's healthcare system - "universal, free of charge and high quality".

In the US there are still millions of people without health insurance. In 2012, it was 15.4 % of the population but that figure has now fallen to below 10% due to President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms.

American journalist Justin Cremer, who has lived in Denmark for five years, has two children, one born in the US and the second in Denmark. He says that while the US hospital provided a far more comfortable experience, he and his wife later faced "the nightmare of working out what was covered by my insurance and what was covered by my wife's insurance".

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34528366

As an example of one of the "myths" around Denmark's social system that Danish journalist Kristoffer Kraen recalls encountering in the US, he gives the example of an academic who asked him whether it was true that whenever a woman in Denmark gives birth, a social worker is dispatched to cook and clean for her.

Mothers in Denmark are entitled to four weeks of paid maternity leave before the expected date of birth and 14 weeks afterwards. Fathers are entitled to two weeks of leave within the first 14 weeks after the birth, with each parent entitled to 32 weeks of parental leave.