This paper explores the implications of Home Based Care on women‟s workload in the context of high HIV and AIDS prevalence rates in Zimbabwe as the country has experienced serious health worker migration since 2000. Health worker migration in Zimbabwe as a result of the weak performance of the economy over the years has inadvertently increased women‟s workload as more and more people adopt Home...

background: the tuberculin test is widely used to identify tuberculosis infection. some individuals infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis may have an initial negative skin test reaction to tuberculin. the two step purified protein derivative skin test can decrease misinterpretation of tuberculin test .this study was aimed at comparing the two- step tuberculin skin test and booster phenomenon...

Annual influenza vaccination for health care workers has the potential to benefit health care professionals, their patients, and their families by reducing the transmission of influenza in the health care setting. Furthermore, staff vaccination programs are cost-effective for health care institutions because of reduced staff illness and absenteeism. Despite international recommendations and str...

results the findings of this study showed that in most selected countries, primary care services were provided by the private sector and the public sector has been mostly functioning as a supervisor in this area, but in iran, primary care services were provided by the government. the findings of this study also showed that hospital services in iran and selected countries (second and third level...

BACKGROUND Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are largely preventable, but are associated with considerable health care burden. Given the significant cost of HAIs, many health care institutions have implemented bundled interventions to reduce HAIs. These complex behavioral interventions require considerable effort; however, individual behaviors and motivations crucial to successful and su...

A large body of literature emphasizes the relationship between stigma and adverse health outcomes and health access measures. For people living with hepatitis C virus (HCV), stigma is a defining feature given the association of HCV with the socially demonized practice of injection drug use. However, there is little literature that specifically examines stigma as a barrier to HCV care and treatm...

BACKGROUND Correct treatment of potentially life-threatening illnesses (PLTIs) in children under 5 years, such as malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea, can substantially reduce mortality. The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy has been shown to improve treatment of child illnesses, but multiple studies have shown that gaps in health worker performance remain after training. ...

The goal of our work is the design and implementation of a virtual agents based interactive simulation for teaching and training health care workers in the proper procedures for hand hygiene. The health care trainee in the simulation plays the role of a health care inspector in a virtual hospital that resembles a real hospital. The interactive training simulation features a virtual instructor w...