OBJECTIVES The UK is a major destination country for trafficking for sexual exploitation, and so increasing numbers of victims of trafficking are managed within health and social services. This study aims to assess the psychological and physical impact on health and social care staff working with an identified sex-trafficked population in a Northern City within England and identify methods to a...

This study analyzed occupational health hazards for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses and nursing technicians, comparing differences in the number and types of hazards which occur at the beginning and end of their careers. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with 26 nurses and 96 nursing technicians from a public hospital in the Federal District, Brazil. A Likert-type work-relate...

BACKGROUND Township-village health centers in rural areas play an important role in health service system in China. In East China's Jiangsu Province, the City of Haimen privatized all 25 township-village health centers in 2002. This study assesses the effect of privatization on staff retention among these health centers. METHODS This is a retrospective study based on 10-year administrative da...

OBJECTIVE To increase understanding of how the prison environment influences the mental health of prisoners and prison staff. DESIGN Qualitative study with focus groups. SETTING A local prison in southern England. PARTICIPANTS Prisoners and prison staff. RESULTS Prisoners reported that long periods of isolation with little mental stimulus contributed to poor mental health and led to int...

introduction: increasing numbers of chronic patients who need permanent support and staff members who are exposed to daily psychological stress highlight the need for hospitals which consider health promotion programs as a key service. health promotion program was introduced by the world health organization (who) in 1990 and has ever since been implemented by many countries throughout the world...

background and objectives: non-ergonomic computer work has emerged as a significant cause of musculoskeletal disorders among employees of health care organizations.  given the negative impact of such disorders on quality of work life, safety, and performance of hospital staff, there is a need to evaluate the exposure of this staff to the ergonomic risks associated with the computer-based jobs. ...

BACKGROUND Most major public and private sector pension schemes have provision for ill-health retirement (IHR) for those who become too ill to continue to work before their normal retirement age. AIM To compare the causes, process and outcomes of IHR in teachers and National Health Service (NHS) staff in Scotland. METHODS A total of 537 teachers and 863 NHS staff who retired due to ill-heal...