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Kerby, Dave S., Michael W. Brand, David L. Johnson, and Farooq S. Ghouri. "Self-Assessment in the Measurement of Public Health Workforce Preparedness for Bioterrorism or other Public Health Disasters." Public Health Reports 120, no. 2 (March 2005): 186–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003335490512000213.

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Objective. The purpose of this study was to examine effective ways to evaluate public health workers' competence for preparedness. Methods. The Public Health Ready project, developed by the National Association of County and City Public Health Officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a pilot program designed to prepare local public health agencies to respond to emergency events. Workers at a Public Health Ready site ( N=265) rated their need for training and their competence in meeting generic emergency response goals. Cluster analysis of cases was conducted on the self-assessed need for training. Results. Three groups of workers emerged, differing in their overall ratings of need for training. A given worker tended to report similar needs for training across all training goals. Conclusions. In this study, workers' ratings of need for training may reflect an overall interest in training rather than need for training in a particular area. Caution should be exercised in interpretation when generic goals and self-assessment are used to measure need for training. Future assessments of training needs may be more effective if they use objective measures of specific local plans.

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Paccaud, Fred, Alison Weihofen, and Martina Frank. "Public Health Workforce in Switzerland: are public health workers lacking?" International Journal of Public Health 58, no. 6 (June 25, 2013): 799–800. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-013-0481-2.

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Binns, Colin, and Wah-Yun Low. "Sex Workers Need Public Health Too." Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 27, no. 8 (October 14, 2015): 804–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1010539515613230.

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Ramadhan, Adityo Pratikno, and Djonet Santoso. "Health workers absenteeism: Indonesia urban public health centres." Journal of Public Health 23, no. 3 (March 27, 2015): 165–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10389-015-0667-6.

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Shah, Gulzar H., Kyle Bogaert, Jingjing Yin, Elizabeth Gould, and J. P. Leider. "Gaps in Public Health Workers' Awareness of Emerging Public Health Trends." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 26, no. 5 (September 2020): 401–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000001049.

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Cianciara, Dorota, Larysa Sugay, Anna Rutyna, Ewa Urban, Maria Piotrowicz, Małgorzata Gajewska, Katarzyna Lewtak, and Joanna Gotlib. "Looking for professional identity of public health workers in Poland." Polish Journal of Public Health 128, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 139–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjph-2018-0027.

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Abstract Introduction. Public health is a specific field, which deals with an improvement of population health. It is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral activity and requires participation of various workers. All current documents and acts in public health field in Poland emphasize on the performance of specific tasks, but leave aside personal status and competencies. Many aspects were not resolved till now, e.g. which domains should be included in public health workforce, the problem of workforce enumeration: how large this group should be and what competencies should have. Aim. The aim of the study was an attempt to indicate some professional identity components for public health workers. Material and methods. The study was performed applying the semi-structured interviews method using a hermeneutic approach. The informants were a purposeful sample of 12 people who obtained the master’s degree in public health and already took up professional work and graduated from two universities. The basic research question was: how do interviewees perceive the public health worker? Results. All respondents, regardless of the place of work, perceived themselves as public health workers and presumably as specialists. Attempts to describe a public health worker led to non-specific and generalized statements. There were no answers revealed to the responsibility issue for effects of work among interviews. Respondents tended to characterize public health worker competencies vertically, by domain categories, not functionally, by public health services, so the issue of key competencies importance for identity is controversial. Conclusions. There are no strong evidences that particular workplaces or core competencies are related to professional identity of public health workers. Universities have an important role in professionalization of such workers.

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Игнатова, Tatyana Ignatova, Еремин, and O. Eremin. "Professional health of medical workers as a factor of the quality of medical service in public health." Journal of Public and Municipal Administration 5, no. 2 (June 28, 2016): 81–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/20546.

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The article deals with the concept of quality of medical care, basic health indicators of professional health of medical workers. The current results of diagnostics of job satisfaction by health workers according to qualitative and quantitative characteristics are presented. Some objective and subjective factors influencing the formation of professional health of medical workers are revealed. The article determines the social status of the person engaged in the field of medicine and the place of medical profession in the system of social relations in modern conditions, when the profession of medical worker is characterized by versatility.

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KURT, Mehmet Emin. "OPINIONS OF HEALTH WORKERS ABOUT WORK PLACE: AN EXAMPLE OF BISMIL PUBLIC HOSPITAL." International Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 1, no. 2 (June 29, 2016): 36–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.23884/ijhsrp.2016.1.2.02.

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Keefe, Robert H. "Health Disparities: A Primer for Public Health Social Workers." Social Work in Public Health 25, no. 3-4 (April 28, 2010): 237–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19371910903240589.

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Resende, José Humberto Cardoso, Álvaro Inácio de Moura, Ana Carolinne Alves Mariano, Hellen Karynne Silva, Hingryd Lorenna Silva, Isabela Assis Campos, Luis Clayton Fernandes de Lima, Marília Bittencourt Gabriel, and Wiuller Oliveira Silverio. "Gigantomastia in Female Workers: “Public Health Cases”." Modern Plastic Surgery 09, no. 01 (2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/mps.2019.91001.

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Apathy, Nate C., and Valerie A. Yeager. "Examining Training Motivations Among Public Health Workers." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 25 (2019): S157—S165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000000940.

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Fu, Minghui, Chuanjiang Liu, Yuting Ma, and Liukun Wang. "Does City Public Service Distance Increase Sense of Gain to Public Health Service? Evidence from 1394 Migrant Workers in Six Provinces." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 10 (May 18, 2022): 6131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19106131.

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Increasing the well-being of migrant workers is one of the key objectives of promoting equality and safe, people-oriented, and sustainable social development, as well as inclusive globalization. With the equalization reform of the public health system and the reduction of frictions between cities, the well-being of the sense of gain to public health service (SGPHS) of migrant workers has attracted widespread attention. Based on the migrant worker thematic survey data in 2017 and the city statistical data in six destination cities, this study constructed and measured the sense of gain to public health service index and city public service distance index, and then studied the effects of city public service distance on the SGPHS of migrant workers and the heterogeneous effect. The results showed that the SGPHS of Chinese migrant workers is at a moderate level and presents spatial differences. Under the dual mechanism of preference reinforcement effect and public service discount effect, the effect of city public service distance on the SGPHS of migrant works shows an inverted U-shaped relationship, and the results of the endogeneity test by the generalized propensity score matching model are robust. The city public service distance has a significant non-linear effect on the public health service accessibility and provision for migrant workers, as well as on second-generation, low-income migrant workers, and migrant workers in central and western regions. The results provide beneficial insights for the formulation of rational public service policies.

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Maghfirah, Sholihatul, and Rohmadi Rohmadi. "Health Care Workers Communication on Diabetes Mellitus Management in Hospital and Community Health Center." Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat 14, no. 1 (September 23, 2018): 133–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/kemas.v14i1.11755.

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Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients require DM management for life. Research proved that good quality self-care behavior of DM patients in dr. Harjono Regional Public Hospital Ponorogo and in North Ponorogo Community Health Center were still low (28,6% in dr. Harjono Regional Public Hospital Ponorogo and 50% in North Ponorogo Community Health Center). Health care worker communication is related to self-care behavior of DM patients. Differences in hospital and community health center self-care behavior in the previous study results triggered a question on the differences in hospital and community health center workers communication. This study was conducted in 2017 and aimed to explain the difference of health care workers communication regarding DM management in hospital and community health center. This study used comparative research design with 32 respondents from dr. Harjono Regional Public Hospital Ponorogo and 31 respondents from North Ponorogo Community Health Center. The results showed that 78.1% of respondents in hospitals and 93.5% of respondents in community health center stated good health care workers communication. The Fisher’s Exact test found p value of 0.148 which meant that there was no difference in communication of healthcare workers in hospital and community health center. Most patients in both places suffered from DM for 1-5 years and required the same health care workers communication, therefore there was no difference in the communication of health workers in both places.

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Darliana M, Hanisa H, Azmul Fadhli K, Nurulahda S, and Dian Darina Indah D. "ERGONOMIC ENGINEERING INTERVENTION OF BATIK STAMPING WORK TO REDUCE LIFTING LOAD." Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine 20, Special1 (August 1, 2020): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37268/mjphm/vol.20/no.special1/art.680.

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One of the common health problems for small and medium enterprise such as batik production is work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSD). This health problem may contribute to long-term medical effect on the production workers. For batik stamping workers, the load of the copper block that need to be used repetitively can reach up to 2kg. This study aims to reduce WMSD effect by reducing the lifting load of the cooper block handled by the batik stamping worker. The worker’s working load is observed before the intervention process by using one of the ergonomic risk assessment tools, Rapid Upper Limb Asssessment (RULA). The ergonomic intervention designed in this study is from the engineering approach by modifying tools. It is found out that the intervention done were able to eliminate the lifting load handled by the worker to avoid discomfort or further health complication. This outcome are hoped to be able to improve workers’ health and increase batik stamping work productivity that eventually increased company’s revenue.

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Cross, J., M. Steinberg, A. Yassi, G. Astrakianakis, J. Lu, R. L. Rodriguez-Acosta, A. L. Schoenfisch, et al. "Health care workers." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 64, no. 12 (November 16, 2007): e6-e6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem.64.12.e6.

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Miawati, Tita, Didik Notosudjono, and Widodo Sunaryo. "FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTH WORKERS’ ENGAGEMENT IN PUBLIC HOSPITAL." JHSS (JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL STUDIES) 6, no. 3 (November 29, 2022): 306–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.33751/jhss.v6i3.6217.

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Many researches of employee engagement proved that engagement is an important factor in providing successful quality services in hospital. Engaged health workers who are energized, loyalty, dedicated, absorbed in their work have an important role in accelerate patient healing, tackling the shortage of health workers and sustainable cost efficiency. The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of organizational culture and servant leadership on health workers engagement in public hospital. The survey method design was used in the study to a public hospital in Tasikmalaya city, Indonesia. The Likert-scale questionnaires was used to measure the strength of 75 health workers’ engagement, organizational culture and servant leadership. The study had generated finding that the public hospital culture and the servant leadership of health workers have significant and positive effect to the health workers’ engagement. In addition, the effect of servant leadership was stronger than the organizational culture. Based on the result of research, it is necessary to develop servant leadership qualifications by increasing the spirit of supervisor service and fostering work-values based culture of the hospital to improve health workers’ engagement.

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Gray, Jennifer. "Public Health: Bush's Smallpox Vaccination Plan." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 31, no. 2 (2003): 312–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2003.tb00093.x.

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At the end of last year, President George Bush implemented a smallpox vaccination plan covering military operatives, health care workers, and “first-responders” (such as firefighters and police). The program is administered by the federal Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with the states and follows the smallpox vaccination guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in September 2002. While inoculation is mandatory for military personnel, health care workers and first-responders are vaccinated on a voluntary basis. The Administration had hoped that 450,000 health care workers would be inoculated within the first month of the program. Toward the end of February, however, only about 1 percent of the anticipated recipients had been inoculated. In Connecticut, which was the first state to begin the nonmilitary component of the program, only three people received vaccinations on the first day.

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Li, Virginia Cheng. "Critical Public Health Problems Perceived by Urban Chinese Health Workers." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 6, no. 4 (January 1986): 297–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/c3kb-tyd4-p0ah-k509.

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This study surveyed a cross section of urban Chinese health workers' perception of problems, needs and priorities in health care delivery. Eleven categories of problems were identified by the health workers. When asked to prioritize what they perceived as critical public health problems in China, more respondents (25.9%) cited family planning and maternal child health as the most critical problem. However, in terms of response frequency, family planning and maternal child health ranked fifth (10.7%) behind disease prevention (18.4%), health education of the public (15.4%), health services administration (13.1%), and environmental health (12.1%). Other critical problems identified were medical education (10.0%). industrial health (5.3%), research (4.5%), nutrition and food sanitation (4.5%), young adults (3.6%), and the elderly (3.6%). Apparently, family planning is perceived as the most critical societal health problem affecting the welfare of the state, but heart disease, cancer, dysentery, hepatitis, and others were perceived as personal health problems critical to the individual and the public. The delineation suggests a distinction of state versus individual priorities. The Chinese health workers saw solutions to these critical problems more often in combined measures of health education, policy regulation, and medical care, than in single measures. They recognized the importance of an enlightened public and felt that educating the public must undergrid all health measures to reach the goal of Health for All by the Year 2000.

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Dennerlein, Jack T., Lisa Burke, Erika L. Sabbath, Jessica A. R. Williams, Susan E. Peters, Lorraine Wallace, Melissa Karapanos, and Glorian Sorensen. "An Integrative Total Worker Health Framework for Keeping Workers Safe and Healthy During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 62, no. 5 (June 9, 2020): 689–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018720820932699.

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Objective The aim was to recommend an integrated Total Worker Health (TWH) approach which embraces core human factors and ergonomic principles, supporting worker safety, health, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Background COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented challenges to workplace safety and health for workers and managers in essential businesses, including healthcare workers, grocery stores, delivery services, warehouses, and distribution centers. Essential workers need protection, accurate information, and a supportive work environment with an unwavering focus on effective infection control. Method The investigators reviewed emerging workplace recommendations for reducing workers’ exposures to the novel coronavirus and the challenges to workers in protecting their health. Using a theoretical framework and guidelines for integrating safety and health management systems into an organization for TWH, the investigators adapted the framework’s key characteristics to meet the specific worker safety and health issues for effective infection control, providing supports for increasing psychological demands while ensuring a safe work environment. Results The recommended approach includes six key characteristics: focusing on working conditions for infection control and supportive environments for increased psychological demands; utilizing participatory approaches involving workers in identifying daily challenges and unique solutions; employing comprehensive and collaborative efforts to increase system efficiencies; committing as leaders to supporting workers through action and communications; adhering to ethical and legal standards; and using data to guide actions and evaluate progress. Conclusion Applying an integrative TWH approach for worker safety, health, and well-being provides a framework to help managers systematically organize and protect themselves, essential workers, and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Application By using the systems approach provided by the six implementation characteristics, employers of essential workers can organize their own efforts to improve system performance and worker well-being during these unprecedented times.

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Uneke, Chigozie Jesse, Annayo Ogbonna, Patrick G. Oyibo, and Christian M. Onu. "Bacterial contamination of stethoscopes used by health workers: public health implications." Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 4, no. 07 (May 11, 2010): 436–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3855/jidc.701.

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Background: This study was designed to assess both the potential for bacterial transmission by stethoscopes used by health-care workers in Nigeria and the implications for patient safety and control of hospital-acquired infections. Methodology: A structured questionnaire was administered to health workers and the surface of the diaphragm of their stethoscopes swabbed for bacteriological analysis using standard techniques. Results and Conclusions: Of the 107 stethoscopes surveyed, 84 (79%) were contaminated with bacteria; 59 (81%) of the contaminated stethoscopes belonged to physicians and 25 (74%) were from other health workers. Isolates included Staphylococcus aureus (54%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (19%), Enterococcus faecalis (14%), and Escherichia coli (13%). All stethoscopes that had never been cleaned were contaminated while lower levels of contamination were found on those cleaned one week or less before the survey (χ2 = 22.4, P < .05). Contamination was significantly higher on stethoscopes cleaned with only water (100%) compared to those cleaned with alcohol (49%) (χ2 = 30.17, P < .05). Significantly fewer (9%) stethoscopes from health workers who washed their hands after seeing each patient were contaminated when compared with the instruments (86%) of those who did not practice hand washing (χ2 = 23.79, P < .05). E. coli showed the highest antibiotic resistance, while S. aureus showed the highest antibiotic susceptibility. Strict adherence to stethoscope disinfection practices by health workers can minimize cross-contamination and ensure improved patient safety in hospital environments.

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Boschman, J. S., H. F. Van der Molen, M. H. W. Frings-Dresen, and J. K. Sluiter. "Preventive Actions Taken by Workers After Workersʼ Health Surveillance." Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 55, no. 12 (December 2013): 1401–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/jom.0000000000000053.

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Kwan, Bethany M., Amy Rockwood, Brian Bandle, Douglas Fernald, Mika K. Hamer, and Roberta Capp. "Community Health Workers." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 24, no. 2 (2018): 146–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000000540.

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Foulkes, J. R. "Traditional Health Workers." Tropical Doctor 22, no. 3 (July 1992): 121–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004947559202200313.

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DeSimone, Cristi L. "Response of Public Health Workers to Various Emergencies." AAOHN Journal 57, no. 1 (January 2009): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/08910162-20090101-04.

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DeSimone, Cristi L. "Response of Public Health Workers to Various Emergencies." AAOHN Journal 57, no. 1 (January 2009): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/216507990905700106.

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Lana, A. Torres, A. Cabrera de León, M. T. Marco García, and A. Aguirre Jaime. "Smoking and sickness absence among public health workers." Public Health 119, no. 2 (February 2005): 144–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2004.06.010.

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Nelson, Roxanne. "USA faces severe shortage of public-health workers." Lancet Infectious Diseases 8, no. 5 (May 2008): 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(08)70084-7.

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Adil, Mahmood, Paul Johnstone, Andrew Furber, Kamran Siddiqi, and Dilshad Khan. "Violence against public health workers during armed conflicts." Lancet 381, no. 9863 (January 2013): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60127-0.

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McDonald, Sarah, and Mike Homfray. "Alcohol treatment workers’ use of public health policy." Drugs and Alcohol Today 13, no. 3 (September 9, 2013): 181–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dat-07-2012-0001.

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Noh, Normah Awang, Haris Abd Wahab, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, and M. Rezaul Islam. "Public Health Services for Foreign Workers in Malaysia." Social Work in Public Health 31, no. 5 (May 13, 2016): 419–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2015.1125321.

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Lindsay, Pat, and Denise Linay. "The public health role of maternity support workers." British Journal of Healthcare Assistants 14, no. 11 (December 2, 2020): 542–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2020.14.11.542.

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Most of the work of midwives and obstetricians is directed at improving pregnancy outcomes. Part of this work is built on the public health strategy developed by the national health services around the UK. Pregnancy and early parenthood are times when expectant and new parents are receptive to public health information. Midwives and maternity support workers work together to convey public health messages. The positive outcomes of this work include reductions in rates of stillbirth, preterm birth and low-birthweight babies. Other outcomes are increased parental satisfaction, stronger family bonds and better family health. Specialist and consultant midwives' views on the role of maternity support workers in public health are included in this paper.

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Akinyinka, ModupeRebekah, OlumuyiwaOmotola Odusanya, EstherOluwakemi Oluwole, BabatundeAdeniran Odugbemi, OmowunmiQubrat Bakare, and Adeyinka Adeniran. "How does the public perceive healthcare workers in Lagos? A comparison of health workers in public and private health facilities." Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal 25, no. 3 (2018): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/npmj.npmj_102_18.

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Zhang, Han, Günther Fink, and Jessica Cohen. "The impact of health worker absenteeism on patient health care seeking behavior, testing and treatment: A longitudinal analysis in Uganda." PLOS ONE 16, no. 8 (August 20, 2021): e0256437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256437.

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Introduction Absenteeism of frontline health workers in public sector facilities is widespread in low-income countries. There is little quantitative evidence on how health worker absenteeism influences patient treatment seeking behavior, though low public sector utilization and heavy reliance on the informal sector are well documented in low-income settings. Methods Using a unique panel dataset covering health facilities and households over a 10-month period in Uganda, we investigate the extent to which health worker absenteeism (defined as zero health workers present at a health facility) impacts patient care seeking behavior, testing, and treatment. Results We find high rates of health worker absenteeism at public sector health facilities, with most of the absenteeism occurring at lower level public health clinics. On average, no health worker was present in 42% of all days monitored in lowest level public health clinics, whereas this number was less than 5% in high level public hospitals and private facilities. In our preferred empirical model with household fixed effects, we find that health worker absenteeism reduces the odds that a patient seeks care in the public sector (OR = 0.65, 95% CI = 0.44–0.95) and receives malaria testing (OR = 0.73, 95% CI = 0.53–0.99) and increases the odds of paying out-of-pocket for treatment (OR = 1.41, 95% CI = 1.10–1.80). The estimated differences in care-seeking are larger for children under-five than for the overall study population. Conclusions The impact of health worker absenteeism on the quality of care received as well as the financial burden faced by households in sub-Saharan Africa is substantial.

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Lewkowski, Kate, Kahlia McCausland, Jane S. Heyworth, Ian W. Li, Warwick Williams, and Lin Fritschi. "Questionnaire-based algorithm for assessing occupational noise exposure of construction workers." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 75, no. 3 (December 9, 2017): 237–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2017-104381.

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ObjectivesOccupational noise exposure is a major cause of hearing loss worldwide. In order to inform preventative strategies, we need to further understand at a population level which workers are most at risk.MethodsWe have developed a new questionnaire-based algorithm that evaluates an individual worker’s noise exposure. The questionnaire and supporting algorithms are embedded into the existing software platform, OccIDEAS. Based on the tasks performed by a worker during their most recent working shift and using a library of task-based noise exposure levels, OccIDEAS estimates whether a worker has exceeded the full-shift workplace noise exposure limit (LAeq,8h≥85 dBA). We evaluated the validity of the system in a sample of 100 construction workers. Each worker wore a dosimeter for a full working shift and was then interviewed using the OccIDEAS software.ResultsThe area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.81 (95% CI 0.72 to 0.90) indicating that the ability of OccIDEAS to identify construction workers with an LAeq,8h≥85 dBA was excellent.ConclusionThis validated noise questionnaire may be useful in epidemiological studies and for workplace health and safety applications.

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Yoeli, Heather, and Mima Cattan. "Insiders and incomers: how lay public health workers' knowledge might improve public health practice." Health & Social Care in the Community 25, no. 6 (March 28, 2017): 1743–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12446.

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Afolabi, Funmilayo Juliana, Paul de Beer, and Joke A. Haafkens. "Physical work conditions and perceived health problems among informal automobile artisans." Work 70, no. 2 (October 26, 2021): 455–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-213584.

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BACKGROUND: Automobile car repair requires intensive activities. Several studies have described different work characteristics of automobile artisans’ work. However, the effects of physical work conditions (PWC) on worker health outcomes are largely unknown. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore which of the PWC have high negative impact on worker’s health outcomes, and whether the same conditions affected both illnesses and injuries. METHODS: A cross-sectional design and a multistage method were used to randomly select 632 workers. A structured self-reported questionnaire was used to obtain information on dependent variables (illness/injuries) and independent variables (PWC). The results were analysed using the chi-square test and logistic regression analysis, while controlling for occupation. RESULTS: Workers who manually lifted heavy items or orally sucked petrol regularly reported illnesses and injuries. Long work experience and long working hours were significantly associated with illness, whereas prolonged standing was significantly related to injuries. Contrary to our initial expectation, workers who regularly worked at 2 m or higher above the ground level tended to report less illness and injury. CONCLUSIONS: PWCs were more significantly related to work-related illnesses than injuries. Therefore, interventional programs for automobile artisans should focus on the PWC that increase worker vulnerability to work-related illnesses.

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Cockcroft, A. "Health Problems of Health Care Workers." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 45, no. 7 (July 1, 1988): 504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem.45.7.504-a.

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Mawn, Barbara, Eduardo Siqueira, Ainat Koren, Craig Slatin, Karen Devereaux Melillo, Carole Pearce, and Lee Ann Hoff. "Health Disparities Among Health Care Workers." Qualitative Health Research 20, no. 1 (November 25, 2009): 68–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732309355590.

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Hofmann, Friedrich, and Ulrich Stößel. "Occupational health in health care workers." Public Health Forum 19, no. 3 (October 1, 2011): 26–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phf.2011.06.014.

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SummarySince the second half of the 20th century occupational health in health care workers is a well-established part of occupational medicine. Identification of environmental, biological, chemical, physical, and psychosocial hazards has lead to a number of preventive measures: Technical (e.g. use of safe instruments and double gloving as protection) and immunological (vaccinations) measures against biological hazards), and technical (lifting aides) and personal (back-schools) intervention to prevent musculoskeletal disorders are well-designed examples.

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Koh, David. "Migrant workers and COVID-19." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 77, no. 9 (June 8, 2020): 634–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2020-106626.

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ObjectivesDaily numbers of COVID-19 in Singapore from March to May 2020, the cause of a surge in cases in April and the national response were examined, and regulations on migrant worker accommodation studied.MethodsInformation was gathered from daily reports provided by the Ministry of Health, Singapore Statues online and a Ministerial statement given at a Parliament sitting on 4 May 2020.ResultsA marked escalation in the daily number of new COVID-19 cases was seen in early April 2020. The majority of cases occurred among an estimated 295 000 low-skilled migrant workers living in foreign worker dormitories. As of 6 May 2020, there were 17 758 confirmed COVID-19 cases among dormitory workers (88% of 20 198 nationally confirmed cases). One dormitory housing approximately 13 000 workers had 19.4% of residents infected. The national response included mobilising several government agencies and public volunteers. There was extensive testing of workers in dormitories, segregation of healthy and infected workers, and daily observation for fever and symptoms. Twenty-four dormitories were declared as ‘isolation areas’, with residents quarantined for 14 days. New housing, for example, vacant public housing flats, military camps, exhibition centres, floating hotels have been provided that will allow for appropriate social distancing.ConclusionThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted migrant workers as a vulnerable occupational group. Ideally, matters related to inadequate housing of vulnerable migrant workers need to be addressed before a pandemic.

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Hafrida, Hafrida, Helmi Helmi, and Retno Kusniati. "Health Workers' Legal Protection Policy to the Coronavirus Disease 19 (Covid-19) Containment Measures." Fiat Justisia: Jurnal Ilmu Hukum 15, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 51–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.25041/fiatjustisia.v15no1.2101.

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This research aims to analyze protection policies for health workers amidst COVID-19. Through statute approach and based on the rights theory, this study examines legal development, or legal framework is needed to formulate and to protect health worker. Since the COVID-19 outbreak spreads quickly and massively, Health worker is at the forefront of handling COVID-19, but they are also vulnerable to get infected by the virus. Some cases showed that many health workers tested positive after providing health services. The findings of the research showed that the right of medical workers to get personal protective equipment and safety guarantees were not enough to protect them. On the other hand, the community was still ignoring the risk of this disease and broke the health protocol in the public place. Health workers can perform their job effectively if people are in healthy condition and do not need to go to the hospital. To containment measures of the COVID-19 State has to choose one of the effective ways to protect people and health workers by regulating and giving a penalty to the perpetrators of the COVID-19 protocol.

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Dally, Miranda, Lyndsay Krisher, Francesca Macaluso, Katherine A. James, and Lee S. Newman. "Workers and Climate Change: The Need for Academic–Industry Partnerships to Improve Agricultural Worker Health, Safety, and Wellbeing." Sustainability 14, no. 11 (May 31, 2022): 6717. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14116717.

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Climate change will have negative consequences for human health worldwide. Agricultural workers are especially vulnerable to the health consequences of climate change. This communication demonstrates how a Total Worker Health® approach is utilized to protect Guatemalan agricultural workers from the negative health effects of climate change. DrPH researchers work alongside local partners to develop, implement, and evaluate climate adaptation strategies and other interventions to improve agricultural worker health, safety, and wellbeing. Training in public health ethics, communications, and leadership gives DrPH researchers the tools to help create successful academic–industry partnerships that increase local capacity and have sustainable public health impact.

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Toussaint, Roger. "THE HEALTH OF WORKERS." American Journal of Public Health 93, no. 9 (September 2003): 1376. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.93.9.1376.

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GATLEY, M. "Tuberculosis in Health Workers." Occupational Medicine 40, no. 2 (1990): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/occmed/40.2.80.

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Smith, David. "Health workers in disguise." Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 125, no. 3 (May 2005): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146642400512500307.

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Krasnik, Allan, Jan R. Fouchard, Thomas Bayer, and Niels Keiding. "Health Workers and AIDS." Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 18, no. 2 (June 1990): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/140349489001800204.

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Nestor, Paul, and Cherrie Galletly. "The Employment of Consumers in Mental Health Services: Politically Correct Tokenism or Genuinely Useful?" Australasian Psychiatry 16, no. 5 (January 1, 2008): 344–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560802196016.

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Objective: The aim of this paper is to examine the role of consumers as service providers and to describe the successful employment of peer support workers in a public mental health service. Conclusions: The Peer Support Worker program in Adelaide, South Australia is consistent with evidence obtained from previous research in demonstrating the successful training and employment of consumers as peer workers in a public mental health service.

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Chililov, A. M., F. N. Kadyrov, and O. V. Obuhova. "Labour Remuneration in Public Health System in Time of Digital Transformation of Medical Services." Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, no. 2 (April 13, 2022): 136–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2022-2-136-148.

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Different aspects of using tele-medical technologies recognized as one of key lines in the development of the advanced public health system are highlighted more and more widely in academic literature. However, prospects of this trend depend not only on progress in the development of medical and information technologies and finance investment in the sphere, but also on economic interest in it on the part of concrete medical workers and it can be directly connected with remuneration systems of workers who render tele-medical services. During the research the authors identified key factors that influence on labour remuneration of workers, who participate in tele-medical technologies. Situations of rendering medical aid were classified in view of the following criteria: time, when telemedical services are to be used (principle and extra); whether the job is included in the job description of a concrete worker; whether remuneration components affect the basic pay of the worker, etc. The authors put forward methodological approaches to working out systems of remuneration aimed at the development of tele-medical technologies by state power bodies and public health institutions.

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Paul Leigh, J., and Jared Bernstein. "Public and Private Workers' Compensation Insurance." Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 39, no. 2 (February 1997): 119–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00043764-199702000-00008.

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Rosenbloom, E. Scott. "Public and Private Workers' Compensation Insurance." Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 39, no. 9 (September 1997): 819. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00043764-199709000-00001.

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