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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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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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Occupational Scabies in Healthcare Workers
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1995Item does not contain ...
Voss, A., Wallrauch-Schwartz, C.
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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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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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Regulating non-nursing healthcare workers
Nursing Standard, 1998This report looks at a comparative study of the changes in nurse education in the UK and Australia over the past decade. The aim is to examine the impact that a move towards a profession led by degree-qualified nurses might have on the profession's control of the workforce.
B, Francis, J, Humphreys
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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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The pregnant healthcare worker
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2015A pregnant healthcare worker (HCW) may be at risk of occupational exposure to pathogens associated with increased maternal morbidity and mortality as well as perinatal complications. In this article, we review recent literature on infectious diseases commonly encountered in the healthcare setting and of highest concern for a pregnant HCW, focusing on ...
Laura, Lynch, Emily Sydnor, Spivak
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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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Cancer risk among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: A review
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Paolo Boffetta +2 more
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