نتایج جستجو برای: health worker

تعداد نتایج: 992451  

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...

2016
Fauziah Rabbani Leah Shipton Wafa Aftab Kashif Sangrasi Shagufta Perveen Aysha Zahidie

BACKGROUND Community health worker motivation is an important consideration for improving performance and addressing maternal, newborn, and child health in low and middle-income countries. Therefore, identifying health system interventions that address motivating factors in resource-strained settings is essential. This study is part of a larger implementation research project called Nigraan, wh...

2014
Abay Asfaw

The share of contingent employment has increased significantly in the last two decades. Not much is known about the impact of this shift on disparities in access to health insurance and other benefits. I examined disparities in access to any type of health insurance, employersponsored health insurance and workers’ compensation (WC) benefits between contingent and non-contingent workers in U.S. ...

Journal: :British journal of industrial medicine 1957
P A RAFFLE

The health of the worker must nowadays be considered against a background of improved social conditions, of death rates which have fallen continuously for a century, and of a reduction in communicable diseases. At one time industrial medicine was preoccupied with the direct and demonstrably harmful effects of certain occupations on health (Schilling, 1956). Now that many of these situations hav...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011
Lungiswa Nkonki Julie Cliff David Sanders

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 Both published and unpublished research on lay health workers has largely focused on the types of interventions they can deliver effectively.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 ...

2015
Niamh Humphries Sara McAleese Ella Tyrrell Steve Thomas Charles Normand Ruairí Brugha

BACKGROUND Research on health worker migration in the Irish context has categorized migrant health workers by country or region of training (for example, non-EU nurses or doctors) or recruitment mechanism (for example, actively recruited nurses). This paper applies a new typology of health worker migrants - livelihood, career-oriented, backpacker, commuter, undocumented and returner migrants (E...

Journal: :HealthcarePapers 2007
Mario A Possamai

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 provided valuable lessons for protecting health workers during an influenza pandemic or other public health crisis. In its final report, the SARS Commission concluded that a key lesson in worker safety was the precautionary principle. It stated that reasonable actions to reduce risk should not await scientific certainty. As recomm...

Journal: :Journal of advanced nursing 2014
Sharon Lawn Toni Delany Linda Sweet Malcolm Battersby Timothy C Skinner

AIM To examine health worker-client interactions during care planning to understand processes that foster client empowerment and disempowerment. BACKGROUND It is unclear how health worker-client exchanges and information sharing through chronic condition care planning currently operate in primary health care. Moreover, it is unclear how control in these exchanges either enhances collaborative...

Journal: :Workplace Health & Safety 2013

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