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Healthcare workers and the brain drain
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2009AbstractThe brain drain of health workers occurs mostly from low‐ and low/middle‐income countries to resource‐rich countries and from rural to urban areas. Shortage and uneven distribution of healthcare workers aggravated by the brain drain from Africa, Asia, and Pacific countries has contributed to impaired reproductive and sexual health services and ...
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Influenza Vaccine and Healthcare Workers
Archives of Medical Research, 2011We undertook this study to review attitudes, beliefs and practices of healthcare workers (HCW) toward pandemic influenza A vaccine (H1N1) 2009 reported in the literature. Relevant papers published from 2009-2011 reporting attitudes, beliefs and practices of HCW towards pandemic influenza vaccine were identified.
Fatima Del Carmen, Aguilar-Díaz +2 more
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Developing healthcare support workers
Nursing Standard, 2014This article the fifth in a series of seven, describes the measures taken by one health board in Scotland to enhance nursing and midwifery leadership. In NHS Lanarkshire, the Leading Better Care Programme was implemented locally by engaging all members of the nursing and midwifery teams, including healthcare support workers (HCSWs).
Jacqueline, Brown, Julia, McMurray
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Trainee healthcare support workers
Nursing Management, 2017The new nursing associate role will sit alongside those of other healthcare support workers, including registered nurses, in the delivery of hands-on patient care. A second wave of around 2,000 nursing associates is being trained by providers across England, and Health Education England has filmed videos of trainees explaining their aspirations and ...
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Planetary Health and Healthcare Workers
2022In this chapter, there is a description of the link between planetary health and healthcare workers. The Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) is a consortium of over 240 universities, non governmental organizations, research insti tutes, and government bodies from more than 40 countries in the world, whose aim is to understand global climate and ...
Giuseppe La Torre +5 more
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Introduction to Ergonomics for Healthcare Workers
Rehabilitation Nursing, 2010Healthcare workers who handle and move patients as part of their jobs suffer a disproportionately high number of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The majority of reported work-related MSDs are back pain cases that result in significant numbers of lost work days.
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Occupational Allergy in Healthcare Workers
Recent Patents on Inflammation & Allergy Drug Discovery, 2010Occupational healthcare may expose to various allergens and irritants. Thus, the allergic manifestations in nursing staff are frequent and their prevalence is increasing all over the world. In fact, many new substances continuously appear in the medical practices. These allergic manifestations include a wide spectrum of clinical symptoms such as ocular,
Neila, Chaari +7 more
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Ebola and healthcare worker stigma
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2018Aims: Exposure to infection is a risk for all healthcare workers. This risk acquires another dimension in an outbreak of highly contagious, lethal disease, such as the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014. Healthcare workers are usually well and correctly informed about the risks from such diseases, but family, neighbours, friends, or colleagues may ...
Misse, Wester, Johan, Giesecke
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Tuberculosis in healthcare workers, Scotland
Scottish Medical Journal, 2017In an attempt to explore healthcare worker acquisition of tuberculosis infection, we conducted population-based surveillance of all cases recorded as healthcare workers reported to Enhanced Surveillance of Mycobacterial Infection from 2000 to 2015. Over the study period, the mean incidence rate of tuberculosis among all healthcare workers was 15.4 per ...
Kevin G, Pollock +4 more
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Occupational Scabies in Healthcare Workers
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1995Item does not contain ...
Voss, A., Wallrauch-Schwartz, C.
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