from 22 may 1976 to 19 february 1977 out of 27742 patients which were referred to health and social welfare network of west azerbaijan in chonqralu (field laboratory of school of public health and institute of public health research in health services development research project in iran), 22693 (81.81%) simple cases were managed by the behvarz (female front line health worker), in nine health ...

This article explores care workers and working carers' experiences of work. It focuses on how both groups experience pressures to adhere an ideal, which this argues, is centered emotional reaction guilt. Through ideal a guilty worker, “care ethic” reconfigured become “work ethic.” Drawing 120 semistructured interviews with workers, carers, trade union officers, company managers, the examines gu...

BACKGROUND Primary care mental health workers are a new role recently introduced into primary care in England to help manage patients with common mental health problems. AIM To explore the views of GPs, primary care teams and patients on the value and development of the new role of primary care mental health workers in practice. DESIGN OF STUDY Qualitative study. SETTING The Heart of Birm...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We present a model for the development of sustainable primary health care in village communities in Honduras through the training and support of community health workers. The model follows a "bottom-up" approach using community-centered data generation, problem-specific curriculum development, and ongoing knowledge maintenance and support for community-based care giver...

An otherwise healthy male abbatoir worker presented to his general practitioner with acute hypoxemia due to bronchopneumonia. His only occupational exposure was cleaning cow carcasses being prepared for consumption. Blood cultures were eventually positive for Pasteurella multocida. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of Pasteurella multocida pneumonia in an abattoir worker, and il...

Medical tourism is a practice where individuals cross international borders in order to access medical care. This practice can impact the global distribution of health workers by potentially reducing the emigration of health workers from destination countries for medical tourists and affecting the internal distribution of these workers. Little has been said, however, about the impacts of medica...