The referral system in health care has been noted as very influential in determining which services are accessed and when. Nonetheless, existing studies have relied on specific measurable factors relating to health personnel, transportation and communication infrastructure, and finance to explain the challenges facing the referral policy in developing countries. While this is understandable, th...

BACKGROUND Increasing births with skilled attendants and increasing health facilities with Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) can reduce maternal mortality and are considered critical interventions for ensuring safe motherhood. Despite Tanzania's policy to support women to give birth with the assistance of skilled personnel, some women do not access this care. This article uses women's stories to ...

EDITOR,-The article on use and effect ofpaediatric life support skills for paediatric arrest in the accident and emergency (A&E) department has three conclusions': (1) the poor outcome, well supported in the literature2 3; (2) advanced life support training in the receiving hospital has not improved the outcome; and (3) the timing of initiation of life support is a critical factor affecting out...

In order to cater the development direction of intelligent era, we should flexibly deal with various problems existing in transportation management, implement refined working ideas, and continuously update management schemes. Taking system as main object, discuss its specific application get methods traffic monitoring system, emergency command dispatch integrated information service so provide ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of emergency medical service (EMS) personnel pertaining to sepsis. We also compared EMS personnel's knowledge of sepsis and their intention to engage in prehospital sepsis management. METHODS The survey was conducted during education conferences for EMS personnel in December 2013 and January 2015 in Seoul, Korea. The questionnaire com...

The study includes assessment of working conditions personnel, modeling non-ionizing radiation distribution, methods and means protection contributing to the effective organization measures protect workers. analyzes actual parameters electromagnetic safety at facility for transportation storage natural gas; a mechanism is proposed effect transformer on an adjacent work area; option minimizing n...

he increasing trend toward ambulatory care, home healthcare, nursing home care, and other alternate sites, has created variations in laboratory services and increased probability of medical errors. As an example, in order to increase laboratory volume, laboratory administrators have had to redirect blood collection services to outlying home and clinic settings via contracts with various physici...

Purpose of this paper The transportation of hazardous materials exposes to major risk aspects not only for the personnel involved in transportation but for the environment as well. In view of this, the research aimed to identify various categorical risks that are to be identified, analysed and mitigated accordingly. As for the safety of the material and the transport, such factors as the flow, ...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of co-operative union±management relations on ®rm performance and organizational outcomes such as employee turnover and absenteeism. This paper seeks to identify the factors that affect the development of a co-operative industrial relations climate and analyses the effects of that climate on organizational and union allegiance and ...