AIMS A range of peer worker roles are being introduced into mental health services internationally. There is some evidence that attests to the benefits of peer workers for the people they support but formal trial evidence in inconclusive, in part because the change model underpinning peer support-based interventions is underdeveloped. Complex intervention evaluation guidance suggests that under...

Low-income countries with high HIV/AIDS burdens in sub-Saharan Africa must deal with severe shortages of qualified human resources for health. This situation has triggered the renewed interest in community health workers, as they may play an important role in scaling-up antiretroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS by taking over a number of tasks from the professional health workers. Currently, a wide...

Keywords respiratory protection/respirators, personal protective equipment, health care worker/homecare worker, COVID-19

Endotoxins as components of organic dust may have adverse effects on the respiratory health of workers in poultry buildings. The move towards more welfare-friendly housing systems for layers may increase worker exposure to air contaminants due to the use of litter. The endotoxin concentrations in the inhalable fraction of airborne dust (below 100 µm) from cage and alternative system houses (on-...

background: as a zoonotic pathogen, encephalitozoon cuniculi is a cause of serious disease in animals and people. the present study was to evaluate the health status examination of this seropositive animal care worker in our pre-vious study. methods: blood samples were taken from five workers. cia test was ap-plied to detect antibodies against e. cuniculi in blood serum. the indirect immunofluo...

Senior Medical Coordinator, Worker Health and Safety Branch, Department of Pesticide Regulation, 2 Sacramento, California Staff Toxicologist, Worker Health and Safety Branch, Department of Pesticide Regulation, Sacramento, 3 California Associate Toxicologist, Worker Health and Safety Branch, Department of Pesticide Regulation, Sacramento, 4 California Professor of Avian Sciences, Department of ...

A s medicine has become increasingly sophisticated and technologically complex, medical educadon and medical care have come to rely on increased speciaHzation (Moore & Showstack, 2003). Dividing providen into specialties, however, has also led to a fiagmented care delivery system in which a patient might go to one cHnic for a check-up, a mental health service provider for treatment of anxiety, ...

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...

A dire health worker shortage in Zambia's national health programs is adversely impacting the quantity and quality of health care and posing a serious barrier to achieving Millennium Development Goals to improve population health. In 2005, Zambia's Ministry of Health developed a 10-year strategic plan for human resources for health to address the crisis through improved training, hiring, and re...