nowadays, occupational accidents are one of the most important problems in developing countries. job stress and unsafe acts have been also recognized as effective factors in increasing the risk of occupational accidents. the main goal of this research was to evaluate the relationship between job stress and unsafe acts with occupational accidents. this study was performed on 195 employees in par...

Current abortion law is restrictive, but its legal interpretation needs to be clarified. In Tanzania, the penal code explicitly states that termination of pregnancy is legally permitted if it is performed to save a woman’s life.1 However, a recent report indicated that since Tanzania’s legal system is based on English common law, the English case of Rex v. Bourne could be applied in the interpr...

Each year throughout the world, approximately 205 million women become pregnant and some 133 million of them deliver live-born infants [1]. Among the remaining 72 million pregnancies, 30 million end in stillbirth or spontaneous abortion and 42 million end in induced abortion. An estimated 22 million induced abortions occur within the national legal systems; another 20 million take place outside...

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...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of unsafe sexual behaviour, sexually transmitted infection (STI)-related knowledge, health and work-related conditions, and correlates of practising unsafe sex among domestic and foreign male workers in multinational workplaces in Jordan. DESIGN Cross-sectional behavioural assessment survey. SETTING Multinational workplaces in Jordan. PARTICIPANTS 230 ...

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...