Immunization and health workers: overview

hepatitis b immunization in health care workers: needs and opportunities

Knowledge, attitude and practice of health workers in immunization.

case reported by Kamala, et al.(3) palatal paralysis was seen on the seventeenth day of illness. The other common causes of palatal paralysis including poliomyelitis and diphtheria were excluded in this case. In view of the emergence of multidrug resistant enteric fever with various complications, we suggest that typhoid fever should be considered in the differential diagnosis of palatal palsy ...

Hepatitis B Immunization in Health Care Workers: Needs and Opportunities

* Corresponding author at: Giuseppe La Torre, Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 324– 00185, Rome, Italy. Tel: +39-649970388, Fax: +39-649972473. E-mail: [email protected] DOI: 10.5812/kowsar.1735143X.705 Copyright c 2011, BRCGL, Published by Kowsar M.P.Co. All rights reserved. c 2011 Kowsar M.P.Co. All rights reserved...

Organizational culture influences health care workers' influenza immunization behavior.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Low rates of influenza immunization among health care workers (HCWs) pose a potential health risk to patients in primary care practices. Despite previous educational efforts and programs to reduce financial barriers, HCW influenza immunization rates remain low. Variation in practice-level organizational culture may affect immunization rates. To explore this relationshi...

Is Expanded Programme on Immunization doing enough? Viewpoint of health workers and managers in Sindh, Pakistan.

OBJECTIVE To understand health managers' and service providers' views about routine immunization; perceived barriers and practical measures to improve the situation in three districts of rural Sindh and one town of Karachi, Pakistan. METHODOLOGY Key informants interviews and focused group discussions were carried out involving district and town health officers, health providers, vaccinators, ...