Health Workers Cohort Study
The predictive effect of fear avoidance beliefs on low back pain among newly qualified health care workers with and without previous low back pain: a prospective cohort study
... This study aimed to enhance understanding of the estab- lished link between physical work load and LBP among health care workers by studying the predictive effect of fear-avoidance ...cross-sectional ...
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Assessing the health effects associated with occupational radiation exposure in Korean radiation workers: protocol for a prospective cohort study
... radiation workers (table 1). The 20 questions asked to all workers covered occupational history, work practices, exposure warn- ings, medical exposure, medical history and lifestyle ...specific ...
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Health care professionals’ attitudes towards evidence-based medicine in the workers’ compensation setting: a cohort study
... referenced study is evaluated using a 30- step grading system, including evaluating sample size, conflict of interest, study design, potential bias, and statis- tical significance (described in the tool ’ s ...
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Evaluation of outcomes for psychosis and epilepsy treatment delivered by primary health care workers in Nepal: a cohort study
... this study we did not use the PANSS general scale, but only the positive and negative symptoms sub-scales (and for analyses com- bined positive and negative symptoms sub-scales) ...
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Update: cohort mortality study of workers highly exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) during the manufacture of electrical capacitors, 1940-1998
... potential health risks ...this study was to update the mortality experience of a cohort of electrical capacitor manufactur- ing workers considered highly exposed to PCBs and to re- examine the ...
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Health care workers in Pearl River Delta Area of China are not vaccinated adequately against hepatitis B: a retrospective cohort study
... injuries, and mother-to-child vertical transmission. Esti- mates of the rate of HBV infection of HCWs following a one-time needle prick with an HBV-exposed needle range widely from 6 to 30 % [3]. HCWs work long hours in ...
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The effectiveness of Dental Health Support Workers at linking families with primary care dental practices: a population-wide data linkage cohort study
... a health visitor (or public health nurse) around 6–8 weeks of age as part of the Early Years Referral Pathway (EYRP), which is the assessment and communication pathway for health visiting teams and ...
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The predictive validity of the Living Goods selection tools for community health workers in Kenya: cohort study
... In the traditional, single-disease CHW model, CHWs were both from and selected by their own communities [17]. Given the nature of the CHW role, community engagement in selection should never be eliminated en- tirely [18] ...
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Retention of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums: a prospective cohort study
... prospective cohort study conducted during year three of the Manoshi project in Dhaka urban slums, we identified factors associated with retention of CHWs that are different from those discovered in a prior ...
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Food borne illness amongst health care workers, at a Central Hospital, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2016: a retrospective cohort study
... The epidemic curve shows that all cases occurred within a single incubation period, so the outbreak was caused by a common point source. The common presented signs and symptoms are typical of Staphylococcus aureus toxins ...
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The neglected burden of tuberculosis disease among health workers: a decade long cohort study in South Africa
... the study from Kenya [19], HWs in Free State had sub-optimal cure ...that health workers with less healthcare sector work experience (employed less than 20 years) were more likely to have TB than ...
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The development, implementation and monitoring of a food and nutrition policy within a local health plan
... community health service to three teaching hospital trusts, a groups, community dental service, public mental health trust and nine community health medicine, health promotion service ...
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Study on workload of public health nurses and other women health workers in India
... The study gathered information on work load among women public health workers and factors associated with this in Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Malappuram and Wayanad districts of ...A ...
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“The mothers have eaten unripe grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge”: the potential inter-generational effects of the Holocaust on chronic morbidity in Holocaust survivors’ offspring
... Israeli cohort is of par- ticular value to the Israeli Ministry of Health, given the potential impact its findings may have on the health sys- tem should a higher risk profile for chronic morbidity ...
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Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management
... of Health in accordance with the Programme of Work increased salaries of health workers (mid-level inclusive) by 52% in ...district health facilities introduced a locum scheme whereby ...
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What cost components are relevant for economic evaluations of palliative care, and what approaches are used to measure these costs? A systematic review
... provide health coverage in the United ...one study from the United States attempted to describe costs that included both Medicare and non- Medicare ...
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The conceptual framework and assessment methodology for the systematic reviews of community-based interventions for the prevention and control of infectious diseases of poverty
... Community health worker programs have increasingly been receiving greater attention over the last few years and a num- ber of publications have documented the impact of such programs ...functioning health ...
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Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management
... Africa's health workforce is insufficient and will be a major constraint in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for reducing poverty and disease ...World health report 2006 [2] has shown that ...
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Migrant Workers and Physical Health: an Umbrella Review
... this study is to elaborate a systematic review, in order to identify the main occupational risks and occupational diseases of this ...(migrant workers, expatriates, physical health, diseases, ...
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Household Perceptions, Willingness to Pay, Benefit Package Preferences, Health System Readiness for National Health Insurance Scheme in Southern Nigeria
... improving health care utilization and protecting households against impoverishment from out-of-pocket expenditures [3] ...World Health Organization (WHO) considers health insurance a promising means ...
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