Immediate proper care of newborn is vitally important for survival, growth and development of a baby. Despite several studies conducted in Nepal about maternal and child health care practices, little is known about factors that determine behaviors related to immediate care of newborn. Identification of behavioral determinants for immediate care of newborn in Kailali district was objective of th...

Ernest Sosa has argued that if someone knows that p, then his belief that p is “safe,” and Timothy Williamson has agreed. In this paper I argue that safety, as defined by Sosa, is not a necessary condition on knowledge—that we can have unsafe knowledge. In the next section I present Sosa’s definition of safety, and in section III I present a counterexample to it as a necessary condition on know...

PURPOSE Safety culture may exert an important influence on the adoption and learning of patient safety practices by learners at clinical training sites. This study assessed students' perceptions of safety culture and identified curricular gaps in patient safety training. METHOD A total of 170 fourth-year medical students at the University of California, San Francisco, were asked to complete a...

1 Department of Environmental Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2 Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Health Sciences Addition, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 3 Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, 4 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Water Research Institute...

BACKGROUND Adolescence and youth are life-threatening stages of development when a range of unsafe behaviors can harmfully affect a person's health and their social and educational performance. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to determine the incidence and prevalence of high-risk behaviors related to intentional and unintentional harm in adolescents of Zahedan (Iran). PATIENTS AND METHOD...

Sebagai aset utama bagi perusahaan dalam menggerakan operasional untuk mencapai efisiensi dan produktivitas tinggi, tenaga kerja perlu dijamin keselamatan kesehatan kerjanya. Keselamatan adalah segala upaya pencegahan kecelakaan penyakit yang diakibatkan dari bekerja menjamin serta melindungi kerja. Setiap diwajibkan menerapkan operasionalnya. Terutama pada pekerjaan memiliki resiko tinggi akan...

Gang youth are at an increased likelihood of participating in unsafe sexual behaviors and at an elevated risk of exposure to sexually transmitted infection (STIs), including HIV. This manuscript presents quantitative and qualitative data on sexual behaviors among a sample of predominately heterosexual, male gang youth aged 16 to 25 years interviewed in Los Angeles between 2006 and 2007 (n = 60)...

We review drug abuse treatment as a means of preventing infection with HIV. Thirty-three studies, with an aggregate of over seventeen thousand subjects, were published in peer-reviewed journals from 1988-1998. Research on the utility of drug abuse treatment as an HIV prevention strategy has focused primarily on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) rather than other modalities such as residenti...

Designing interventions to reduce HIV transmission among injecting drug users (IDU) requires reliable estimates of risk behaviors. We present population-based estimates for unsafe injection practices and sexual risk behaviors among male IDUs recruited through respondent driven sampling in India (Delhi: 783; Imphal: 766). IDUs in Delhi, mostly street-based (68%), reported injecting pharmaceutica...