background: solid waste management has emerged as an important human and environmental health issue. municipal solid waste workers (mswws) are potentially exposed to a variety of occupational biohazards and safety risks. the aim of this study was to describe health practices and safety measures adopted by workers in the main municipal company in alexandria (egypt) as well as the pattern of the ...

objective one of the prominent microorganisms in several reports of nosocomial infections is staphylococcus aureus (s. aureus) which is carried by several health care workers (hcw) many times throughout the day. the present investigation was conducted to assess the nasal and hand carriage rate of s. aureus amongst medical personnel of loghman hakim hospital's toxicological intensive care unit (...

background industrial growth is occurring exponentially, for unimpeded growth, industrial workers are recruited on a large scale globally. there are various sectors of industries present for which laborers are trained in accordance to their requirements. as workers possess the general health risk of occupational hazards, various labor laws, schemes and policies are undertaken by the government ...

This work aims to report the experience of an extension program that became a research group registered in national system researchers. is as methodological strategy for describing observation reality, action or set them, based on practice teaching, extension, assistance. The Interdisciplinary Nucleus Study, Research and Extension Mental Health was born with focus university-society integration...

BACKGROUND Adolescents in developing countries face a range of sexual and reproductive health problems. Lack of health care service for reproductive health or difficulty in accessing them are among them. In this study we aimed to examine health care workers' attitudes toward sexual and reproductive health services to unmarried adolescents in Ethiopia. METHODS We conducted a descriptive cross-...

BACKGROUND Mobile health applications are complex interventions that essentially require changes to the behavior of health care professionals who will use them and changes to systems or processes in delivery of care. Our aim has been to meet the technical needs of Health Extension Workers (HEWs) and midwives for maternal health using appropriate mobile technologies tools. METHODS We have deve...

To scale up primary health care services in Ethiopia, a program of female health extension workers (HEWs) was established in 2003 to deliver 17 service packages ranging from child survival and nutrition interventions, maternal and neonatal care, and hygiene and environmental sanitation measures at health posts in rural communities. Community volunteers are trained to support the HEWs and to fac...

background: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) represent one of the most common occupational health education problems in both developed and developing countries. the aim of this study was to assess the effect of an occupational ergonomic training educational programon awareness, attitude and work-related musculoskeletal disorders behavior among office workers. material and methods: firstly,200 o...

the aims of this study were to determine hippuric acid and toluene in urine samples, airborne toluene levels, health effects, and to describe any correlation between specimen samples. seventy-five printing workers exposed to toluene at work (exposed group), and 60 nonexposed people (control group) were studied. study participants were selected from same factories in the different positions. uri...