PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY STRESS FACTORS OF HEALTH WORKERS

Professional Practices Promoting Health of Healthcare Workers: Comparison of Public and Private Hospitals in Pakistan

The Experiences of Healthcare Providers Regarding Professional Ethics of Front Line Health Workers (A Qualitative Study)

 Background and purpose: There is a return to rationality and ethics in the approach of current world. After several eras, humanity comes to consider rationality and ethics in addressing its physical and moral needs. From this point of view, ethics could be considered as a center of evolution in the future. This approach mainly influences those practices that are in the lead in serving people....

The Factors of Violence Outbreak in the Professional Relationship of Social Workers

Introduction: Social work is a complicated profession with wide utilization. Some factors in social workers' professional relationships cause violence which creates worries for social workers. The current study aimed to identify these restrictions that create violence in the social worker's professional relationships. Methods: This study carried out via conventional qualitative content analysis...

Health status of professional divers and offshore oil industry workers.

AIMS To compare the health status of UK professional divers and age-matched non-divers and to contrast offshore divers (OSDs) with non-offshore divers (NOSDs). METHODS A postal survey sent to 2958 male professional divers, registered with the UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) before 1991, and 2708 men who had worked in the offshore oil industry in 1990-92 (non-divers). The questionnaire addr...

Stress Assessment in Health Care Workers

To assess the risk from exposure to occupational stress and burnout in health care workers (HCW), a cross-sectional study was planned to compare objective data that can represent potential job stressors in hospital wards and subjective symptoms reported by the workers. Medical doctors, nurses and ancillary workers of the Internal Medicine Wards of a large public hospital in Northern Italy parti...