From January to July of 2009, an investigation was conducted on Occupational Health in Nepal. An evaluation of occupational health and safety in Nepal is compared to that in other South Asian countries. The analysis includes an evaluation of what is in place and a multi-tiered recommendation to define and enact a modern legal framework, implement enforcement policies, develop forums, educate pr...

Primary health care worker • Screens visual acuity • Treats conjunctivitis • Dispenses reading spectacles for people aged 50 and over 200 under-resourced, particularly French and Portuguese speaking and conflict states (Table 2). The fact is that an insufficient number of new eye health workers are being trained for the needs of a growing and ageing population. Without government commitment to ...

In the daily exercise of their functions, health professionals face a duality of systems, that is, the professional system and the organizational system, each of which has its own distinct values, principles and expectations. The authors aim to present organizational and professional commitment concepts and their relations in the context of the health sector. They consider that organizational a...

BACKGROUND Work-related head injury is a critical public health issue due to its rising prevalence; the association with profound disruption of workers' lives; and significant economic burdens in terms of medical costs and lost wages. Efforts to understand and prevent these types of injuries have largely been dominated by epidemiological research and safety science, which has focused on identif...

The services sector includes industries and administrative programs among these sub sectors: Information; Finance and Insurance; Real Estate; Professional, Scientific and Technical Services; Management of Enterprises and Corporations; Administrative Support and Waste Technologies; Education; Arts, Entertainment and Recreation; Accommodation and Food Service; Other Services; and Public Administr...

We use data on male employees from the U.K. Family Expenditure Survey for the years 1968-86 to investigate the behavior of wages over time and across cohorts. We find that differentials between manual workers and professional managerial ones are lower at labor market entry for younger cohorts but increasing faster with age in the 1980s than in the past. The returns to experience appear to be ve...

This study aimed to identify aspects that potentially increase the vulnerability of nursing workers to tuberculosis, through the verification of personal life, work and disease knowledge indexes. The sample is composed of 81 nursing workers involved with assistance in the night and day shifts at USP Teaching Hospital, who answered a questionnaire about life and work habits. The sample aggregate...

The necessity of translation continues to increase because of the rapid spread of multi-language activity, especially on the World Wide Web. As result, we need new way of translation because the number of professional translators is limited. One way is using the power of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is outsourcing various tasks to workers on the WWW. Crowdsourcing is classified into several cat...

background : accidental needle-stick injuries (nsis) are a hazard for health-care workers and general public health. nursing workers are at high risk for occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens (such as hbv, hcv and hiv) via sharp injuries of needle stick. methods : this descriptive analytical cross-sectional study was done on 158 nursing workers of khanevadeh hospital in tehran to study...

Little research has focused on the risk factors, effects, and experiences of compassion fatigue among gerontological social workers. This qualitative study explores the experiences and perspectives of nine Adult Protective Services (APS) social workers in relation to compassion fatigue. Results show that the APS social workers combined personal characteristics and professional factors to develo...