Whereas the contribution of unsafe sexual behaviors to global disease burden is not contentious, there are divergent perspectives of unsafe sexual act or practices. The different perspectives can be identified within the research traditions of Scholars in Public Health, Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Economy. The challenge therefore had been in constructing an explanatory model t...

Unsafe injections are suspected to occur routinely in developing countries. We carried out a literature review to quantify the prevalence of unsafe injections and to assess the disease burden of bloodborne infections attributable to this practice. Quantitative information on injection use and unsafe injections (defined as the reuse of syringe or needle between patients without sterilization) wa...

Guttmacher Institute/IUSSP The primary objective of this chapter is to encourage and facilitate researchers in finding ways to make and publish national-level estimates of unsafe abortion where such estimates are currently unavailable. Knowing the magnitude of unsafe abortion in a given country facilitates an informed discussion on the abortion issue and on improving women’s reproductive health...

It is a question he has already posed many times this morning and most of his patients are happy to comply. In fact they expect him to offer an injection and might feel cheated if he did not. This scenario is repeated in urban and rural clinics, in high-tech hospitals, and in shanty pharmacies every day across the globe. The World Health Organization estimates that about 12 billion injections a...

BACKGROUND About 46 million induced abortions occur in the world annually. The studies have reported 80000 cases of induced abortions in Iran annually. OBJECTIVES This qualitative study was conducted to identify the causes of unsafe abortion in Iran from the standpoint of three groups of experts, women with a history of abortion or unwanted pregnancy and service providers. PATIENTS AND METH...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the workers safety behavior and to determine the importance of each unsafe behavior in an Iranian steel manufacturing company. METHODS This study was conducted in Mobareke steel manufacturing company, which is located in the middle of Iran, in 2007. The methodology was based on the safety behavior sampling (SBS) technique and entropy. After specifying t...

background: studies show that about 90% of accidents occur because of unsafe behavior and human errors. even if workers do not have the right knowledge, attitude and behavior toward safety measures in a safe workplace, all efforts for an accident-free workplace will be in vain. this study aims to determine the level of knowledge, attitude and behavior of workers toward occupational health and s...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a theoretically based sex education programme for adolescents (SHARE) delivered by teachers reduced unsafe sexual intercourse compared with current practice. DESIGN Cluster randomised trial with follow up two years after baseline (six months after intervention). A process evaluation investigated the delivery of sex education and broader features of each school. ...