Potential infection control risks associated with roaming healthcare industry representatives

Mobile Phones in Healthcare Setting: Potential Threat in Infection Control

Hospital acquired infections are a problem in both developed and developing countries despite overall progress. It significantly increases the patient’s length of stay in hospital resulting in higher hospital costs. Source of infection may be exogenous such as from the air, medical equipment, hands of surgeons and other staff or endogenous such as the skin flora in the operative site, or rarely...

A Review of Risks to Workers Associated with Fireworks Industry

Financial risks associated with healthcare consumption in Jinja, Uganda.

INTRODUCTION Financial access to promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative healthcare by every one remains a challenge globally. The requirement to make direct payments at the time of consuming health services is one of the reasons why it persists. In this paper, we present findings on the financial risks households bear as a result of healthcare consumption in one district in Uganda. ...

Physician–Industry Relations Factors Associated With Physicians’ Reliance on Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives

Purpose To examine relationships between pharmaceutical representatives and obstetrician–gynecologists and identify factors associated with self-reported reliance on representatives when making prescribing decisions. Method In 2006–2007, questionnaires were mailed to 515 randomly selected physicians in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Collaborative Ambulatory Research Ne...

Zoonotic diseases associated with free-roaming cats.

Free-roaming cat populations have been identified as a significant public health threat and are a source for several zoonotic diseases including rabies, toxoplasmosis, cutaneous larval migrans because of various nematode parasites, plague, tularemia and murine typhus. Several of these diseases are reported to cause mortality in humans and can cause other important health issues including aborti...