BACKGROUND Primary health care workers (HCWs) represent a growing occupational group worldwide. They are at risk of infection with blood-borne pathogens because of occupational exposures to blood and body fluids (BBF). AIM To investigate BBF exposure and its associated factors among primary HCWs. METHODS Cross-sectional study among workers from municipal primary health care centres in Flori...

When one explores the health problems of developing countries such as South Africa, the importance of primary health care becomes clear. The multiplicity of the health problems coupled with the lack of resources makes it imperative for govern­ ment within the primary health care approach to call upon communities to partici­ pate in the solution thereof and community participation and developmen...

a Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India. Correspondence to Salig R Mazta (email: [email protected]) ‘Health for All’ through the primary health care approach was initiated in 1978. All the eight elements of primary health care are delivered at the grass root level through sub-health centres by health workers (male and female) in co-ordination with...

BACKGROUND Health workers' attitudes toward immigrant patients influence behaviour, medical decisions, quality of care and health outcomes. Despite the increasing number of immigrant patients in health services and the potential influence of health workers' attitudes, there is little research in this area. This study aimed to examine attitudes of different health workers' groups toward immigran...

Abstract Identifying women with depressive symptoms is the first step to reducing risk of short-term and long-term consequences antenatal depression. Task shifting by training primary healthcare workers may help reduce burden in low-resource settings. Twenty health a center urban Bengaluru were trained screen identify The had two components: knowledge-based, using depression module Mental Healt...

objective: the purpose of this study is to evaluate job satisfaction and general welfare among the primary health workers (behvarzes) in the primary health centers in kashan. the following seven items were assessed: physical, social, and psychological, environmental, organizational, educational, and administration structure and job facilities. method: subjects consist of 22 male and 43 female p...

BACKGROUND An estimated four million deaths occur each year among children in the neonatal period. Current evidence-based interventions could prevent a large proportion of these deaths. However, health care workers involved in neonatal care need to have knowledge regarding such practices before being able to put them into action.The aim of this survey was to assess the knowledge of primary heal...

Primary health workers( behvarzes) have the responsibility of birth control education in rural areas. To evaluate the practice of behvarzes in their own birth spacing, a questionnaire was prepared by the investigators and it was completed by married behvarzes. The results were as follows: of 437 behvarzes  50.8℅ were females and 84(19.2℅) were couples. Mean age of behvarzes was 29.4 and the mea...