Background Inequalities in maternal health care are pervasive in the developing world, a fact that has led to questions about the extent of these disparities across socioeconomic groups. Despite a growing literature on maternal health across Sub-Saharan African countries, relatively little is known about the evolution of these inequalities over time for specific countries. This study sought to ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze factors associated with the use of stimulants by truck drivers to stay awake. METHODS A survey with 854 drivers was carried out at eight truck stops (seven gas stations and one border patrol post) located at five cities in the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Brazil) in 2006. The outcome "amphetamine use" was categorized as "yes" or "no". Poisson regression analysis w...

Decades of research and development to address young drivers’ over-involvement in road crashes has led critical improvements understanding interventions, yet mostly focused on drivers or their parents. Driving instructors have a key role the driver safety system, substantially less attention been paid accreditation professional specific teaching drivers. Neurobiological during mid-to-late adole...

Purpose This research examines what motivates professional truck drivers to engage in eco-driving by linking their self-reports with objective driving scores. Design/methodology/approach Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is illustrated an embedded, single-case study a Finnish carrier 17 its drivers. Data are obtained through in-depth interviews drivers, fuel-efficiency scores generated fleet tel...

Purpose This study aimed to provide an exploratory analysis of digitalization processes in small professional service firms (SPSFs) by examining their main drivers and barriers impact on customer management practices, considering the intra-organizational, inter-organizational offering dimensions. Design/methodology/approach adopted a qualitative, inductive research methodology based in-depth in...

Today, the texts governing Algerian economy claim equality between men and women in labour market: no training, profession, position of responsibility is legally closed to women. law prohibits all discrimination hiring career development. The imbalance has even been reversed one essential respect: are entering university field more than successful. However, they account for only 19% (ONS, 2020)...

Sleepiness is increasingly recognised as a major preventable cause of accidents on the road and in the workplace.1-23 It contributes to up to 20% of road traffic accidents (RTAs), with sleep-related RTAs claiming an excess morbidity and mortality similar to that from alcohol-related accidents. Sleepy driving is a known risk factor for RTAs: sleepy drivers have more frequent RTAs, and drivers at...

BACKGROUND Recent research has found evidence of an association between motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) or near miss accidents (NMAs), and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) or its main medical cause, Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). However, EDS can also be due to non-medical factors, such as sleep debt (SD), which is common among professional truck drivers. On the opposite side, rest breaks and ...