The Healthy Hospital Project, an international collaboration, aimed to strengthen Ecuador's capacity to promote healthier and safer hospitals by reducing occupational transmission of infectious diseases. Team members conducted a needs assessment to identify workplace hazards and health risks in three hospitals. A survey of health care workers' knowledge and practices of occupational health (OH) and infection control (IC) revealed positive practices such as a medical waste disposal program and widespread dissemination of health information. Challenges identified included a high frequency of recapping needles and limited resources for workers to apply consistent IC measures. The survey revealed underreporting of needlestick injuries and limit...
Introduction: Healthcare personnel plays an important role in the prevention of acute respiratory in...
Introduction: Surveys on working conditions and health at work have proven to be reliable for gather...
The rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV)...
Globalization has been accompanied by the rapid spread of infectious diseases, and further strain on...
Objective: To assess the knowledge, compliance and practice among healthcare workers of occupational...
Introduction: infections associated with health care constitute a serious public health problem worl...
Workers in the Health sector require suitable special implements to protect themselves in their work...
EditorialSegún la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) y citando literalmente un párrafo de ...
Background: the knowledge of health personnel about the prevention of infections associated with hea...
Las infecciones asociadas a la atención de salud se han descrito en todo el mundo y se producen tant...
Health care workers are at risk for percutaneous injuries and infection with blood born pathogens du...
Background: Health workers are at high risk of acquiring infectious diseases at wor...
Introduction: Biosecurity measures are a set of preventive standards that health and nursing personn...
Every year millions of workers die due to health and safety hazards at work. This occurs especially ...
Occupational exposure refers to the level of risk that a worker maintains in his workplace. In the c...
Introduction: Healthcare personnel plays an important role in the prevention of acute respiratory in...
Introduction: Surveys on working conditions and health at work have proven to be reliable for gather...
The rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV)...
Globalization has been accompanied by the rapid spread of infectious diseases, and further strain on...
Objective: To assess the knowledge, compliance and practice among healthcare workers of occupational...
Introduction: infections associated with health care constitute a serious public health problem worl...
Workers in the Health sector require suitable special implements to protect themselves in their work...
EditorialSegún la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) y citando literalmente un párrafo de ...
Background: the knowledge of health personnel about the prevention of infections associated with hea...
Las infecciones asociadas a la atención de salud se han descrito en todo el mundo y se producen tant...
Health care workers are at risk for percutaneous injuries and infection with blood born pathogens du...
Background: Health workers are at high risk of acquiring infectious diseases at wor...
Introduction: Biosecurity measures are a set of preventive standards that health and nursing personn...
Every year millions of workers die due to health and safety hazards at work. This occurs especially ...
Occupational exposure refers to the level of risk that a worker maintains in his workplace. In the c...
Introduction: Healthcare personnel plays an important role in the prevention of acute respiratory in...
Introduction: Surveys on working conditions and health at work have proven to be reliable for gather...
The rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV)...