Caring for Care Workers

Caring for sex workers.

Sex workers are adults who receive money or goods for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally, including female, male, and transgendered sex workers. 3 Youths under 18 years who sell sex are sexually exploited and not included in the definition. Caring for sex workers seeking health services requires knowledge, flexibility, open mindedness, and, above all, a non-judgmental attitude. P...

Caring for Healthcare Workers: A Global Perspective

Caring about care-givers: a study of child care workers in Cape Town.

Die kindersorgwerker, hoewel die primére versorger, word tot 'n groot mate deur die meeste ondersoeke na kindersorg misken. Hierdie studie t’okus op twaair kindersorgwerkers in ses kinderhuise. Hulle motivering, take, die wyse waarop hulle die wcrk hanteer asook die prohleme wat hulle ervaar is ondersoek. Die bevindinge het die van vorige navorsing bevestig, naamlik dat die kindersorgwerker aan...

Aboriginal maternal and infant care workers: partners in caring for Aboriginal mothers and babies.

INTRODUCTION Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Care (AMIC) workers and midwives work in intellectual and inter-cultural partnerships in a new perinatal care model the Anangu Bibi Family Birthing Program that aims to provide culturally focussed perinatal care for Aboriginal mothers and families at two sites in regional South Australia. This study investigated the views of the AMIC workers and midwi...

Serum titres of Pneumocystis carinii antibody in health care workers caring for patients with AIDS.

BACKGROUND Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was thought to occur from reactivation of latent infection, but recent studies with the polymerase chain reaction have failed to detect P carinii in normal subjects. If pneumocystis pneumonia is therefore caused by new infection the source and mode of transmission of P carinii remains unknown. METHODS Natural exposure to P carinii was detected by meas...