BACKGROUND Restaurant workers have among the highest rates of work-related illness and injury in the US, but little is known about the working conditions and occupational health status of Chinese immigrant restaurant workers. METHODS Community-based participatory research (CBPR) was employed to study restaurant working conditions and worker health in San Francisco's Chinatown. A community/aca...

Background Despite increased access to treatment and reduced incidence, vertical transmission of HIV continues to pose a risk to maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. Performance-based financing (PBF) directed at healthcare providers has shown potential to improve quantity and quality of maternal and child health services. However, the ways in which these PBF initiatives lead to impr...

Lay health workers are key to achieving universal health-care coverage, therefore measuring worker attrition and identifying its determinants should be an integral part of any lay health worker programme. Both published and unpublished research on lay health workers has largely focused on the types of interventions they can deliver effectively. This is an imperative since the main objective of ...

Health policymakers in many countries are looking at ways of increasing health care coverage by scaling up the deployment of community health workers. In this commentary, we describe the rationale for the UK to learn from Brazil's scaled-up Community Health Worker primary care strategy, starting with a pilot project in North Wales.

abstract background: workplace violence is a serious and problematic phenomenon in health care settings. research shows that health care workers are at the highest risk of such violence. the aim of this study was to address the frequency of physical violence against iranian health personnel, their response to such violence, as well as the contributing factors to physical violence. materials and...

BACKGROUND Obesity exerts an enormous health impact through its effect on coronary heart disease and its risk factors. Primary care-based and community-based intensive lifestyle counseling may effectively promote weight loss. There has been limited implementation and evaluation of these strategies, particularly the added benefit of community-based intervention, in low-income Latino populations....

background: the lack of satisfaction and balance between the workload and abilities and limitations of individuals in various occupations may influence their general health. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of workload and job satisfaction on the general health of industrial workers.   materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional and correlational study on 215 workers of a...

OBJECTIVES To establish the relative cost effectiveness of postnatal support in the community in addition to the usual care provided by community midwives. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with six month follow up. SETTING Recruitment in a university teaching hospital and care provided in women's homes. PARTICIPANTS 623 postnatal women allocated at random to intervention (311) or contro...