The UK needs a Health and Care Workers Covenant

hepatitis b immunization in health care workers: needs and opportunities

Hepatitis B Immunization in Health Care Workers: Needs and Opportunities

* Corresponding author at: Giuseppe La Torre, Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 324– 00185, Rome, Italy. Tel: +39-649970388, Fax: +39-649972473. E-mail: [email protected] DOI: 10.5812/kowsar.1735143X.705 Copyright c 2011, BRCGL, Published by Kowsar M.P.Co. All rights reserved. c 2011 Kowsar M.P.Co. All rights reserved...

The Effects of a Mutrition Education on the Nutritional Knowledge and Attitude of Health Care Workers

Objectives and methods: This was an intervention field trial to determine the effects of a nutrition education program (a modudle prepared specifically for the porpose) on the nutritional knowledge and attitude of volunteer Health care workers of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in city of Tehran in 1999. The study population consisted of 121 female health care workers from four ran...

Prevalence of measles susceptibility among health care workers in a UK hospital. Does the UK need to introduce a measles policy for its health care workers?

OBJECTIVES First, to determine the prevalence of measles non-immunity in a group of health care workers (HCW), and secondly, to investigate what pre-employment screening for measles is carried out by NHS occupational health departments. METHODS Two hundred and eighteen HCWs with patient contact on the medical wards at Addenbrooke's hospital provided an oral fluid sample and answered a questio...

Vaccination against influenza: UK health care workers not on-message.

Vaccination of health care workers against influenza is considered to be important as a means of protecting patients from nosocomial infection. Vaccine uptake rates have been reported to be no more than 40% and often between 20 and 30%. An evaluation of the performance of UK National Health Service trusts, following a governmental directive to implement vaccination during the winter of 2000-200...