BACKGROUND The placement of welfare advice services in family practice to assist patients with health-related social and economic issues (e.g. disability benefits) has gathered momentum over the last decade in the UK. This expansion of primary care raises a number of issues for practices hosting these services. OBJECTIVES To gain the views of advice workers and primary care staff about the is...

Background. Healthcare workers have an increased risk of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), but previous studies suggested that they might be reluctant to accept preventive tuberculosis (TB) treatment. We aimed to examine doctors' and nurses' experience of TB screening and to explore their attitudes towards preventive TB treatment. Methods. We conducted a survey among randomly selected healt...

OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences and perceptions of health workers and implementers of task-shifting in rural health facilities in Upper East Region, Ghana. METHODS Data was collected through field interviews. A total of sixty eight (68) in-depth interviews were conducted with health workers' in primary health care facilities (health centres); Four in-depth interviews with key persons inv...

Implications Due to significant staff turnover, the child welfare workforce may be comprised of new and inexperienced workers. Training, enhanced supervision, and professional incentives are all strategies used to improve worker satisfaction and retention. Finding effective solutions for staff retention is paramount as turnover can lead to disruption of the continuity and quality of care for ch...

conclusions high-risk behaviors are not highly prevalent among municipal workers and staff, and have no relationship with the occupation type. given the higher prevalence of high-risk behaviors among more educated workers, there should be no concern about high-risk behaviors in less-educated ones. in conclusion, the ethnicity and educational level revealed as important predictors of high-risk b...

A survey of salaries and turnover in community-based mental health agencies in New York State shows high turnover and poor retention among direct-care staff. The survey further compares salaries and turnover in agencies that employ union workers and those that employ non-union workers, as union workers are typically able to negotiate wage increases or Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs) with som...

This study was initiated to determine and compare daily occupational exposure (OE) and non-occupational exposure (NOE) of three employee groups of teachers, maintenance workers and secretarial staff in a Canadian school district. The time-weighted average (TWA) individual OE for subjects ranged from 0.4-3.8 milligauss (mG), and the TWA NOE ranged from 0.2-7.1 mG. TWA OE and NOE were 1.2 mG and ...

background: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are one of the most common causes of occupational injuries that appear mainly in back, neck and upper limb. this study was conducted with the objectives of determination of prevalence rate of msds among workers of a generator manufacturing company and ergonomics assessment of working conditions. methods: in this study, 319 workers randomly selected p...

OBJECTIVES Data on high frequency of hepatitis A virus (HAV) antibodies for wastewater treatment staff is contradictory. Literature lacks data on the seroprevalence of antibodies to HAV (anti-HAV) among workers in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Bulgaria. The aim of this study is to establish a specific humoral immune response to hepatitis A virus - anti-HAV total antibodies among staff ...