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Gujral, Sunder, Rita Abbi, Rajni Mujoo, and Tara Gopaldas. "Determinants of Community Health Workers’ Performance in India." Food and Nutrition Bulletin 13, no. 4 (December 1991): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/156482659101300409.

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Forty-three anganwadi workers (community health workers) in Gujarat state, India, were interviewed to record their education level, evaluate their nutrition knowledge, and collect information on the number of visits made by the auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) in the preceding three months and the activities she performed for the anganwadi. The coverage of five services delivered or assisted by the anganwadi worker- supplementary feeding growth monitoring, vitamin A prophylaxis, health checkups, and immunization- was estimated by interviewing the mothers of 3,987 children 0–6 years old. The anganwadi worker's having at least a high school education, a nutrition knowledge score of more than 4 out of 7, more than one visit by the ANM in three months, and an ANM activity score of more than 2 out of 9 were significant determinants, individually or in combination, for the anganwadi worker's performance. Multiple regression analysis indicated that nutrition knowledge was the most powerful determinant of performance, followed by guidance from the ANM and education level. It is therefore concluded that anganwadi workers should receive nutrition health education and regular guidance from the ANMs, and their education level should be high school or above.
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Dennerlein, Jack T., Lisa Burke, Erika L. Sabbath, Jessica A. R. Williams, Susan E. Peters, Lorraine Wallace, Melissa Karapanos, and Glorian Sorensen. "An Integrative Total Worker Health Framework for Keeping Workers Safe and Healthy During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 62, no. 5 (June 9, 2020): 689–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018720820932699.

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Objective The aim was to recommend an integrated Total Worker Health (TWH) approach which embraces core human factors and ergonomic principles, supporting worker safety, health, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Background COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented challenges to workplace safety and health for workers and managers in essential businesses, including healthcare workers, grocery stores, delivery services, warehouses, and distribution centers. Essential workers need protection, accurate information, and a supportive work environment with an unwavering focus on effective infection control. Method The investigators reviewed emerging workplace recommendations for reducing workers’ exposures to the novel coronavirus and the challenges to workers in protecting their health. Using a theoretical framework and guidelines for integrating safety and health management systems into an organization for TWH, the investigators adapted the framework’s key characteristics to meet the specific worker safety and health issues for effective infection control, providing supports for increasing psychological demands while ensuring a safe work environment. Results The recommended approach includes six key characteristics: focusing on working conditions for infection control and supportive environments for increased psychological demands; utilizing participatory approaches involving workers in identifying daily challenges and unique solutions; employing comprehensive and collaborative efforts to increase system efficiencies; committing as leaders to supporting workers through action and communications; adhering to ethical and legal standards; and using data to guide actions and evaluate progress. Conclusion Applying an integrative TWH approach for worker safety, health, and well-being provides a framework to help managers systematically organize and protect themselves, essential workers, and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Application By using the systems approach provided by the six implementation characteristics, employers of essential workers can organize their own efforts to improve system performance and worker well-being during these unprecedented times.
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Wong, Diana, Michele Rumsey, and David Heslop. "Global Burden of SARS-CoV-2 on Health Care Workers’ Mortality and Morbidity." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 38, S1 (May 2023): s144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x23003783.

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Introduction:Unfortunately, before SARS-CoV-2, a global workforce crisis in health care had already been flagged internationally and is only expected to grow. Health care workers are the critical driving force underpinning all health systems. A skilled workforce takes years to develop, and staff shortages have enduring negative impacts on patients, patient safety, and the ability to deliver Universal Health Coverage.Method:A scoping literature review on health care worker mortality and morbidity resulting from SARS-CoV-2 was undertaken and included reviewing the peer-reviewed and grey literature.Results:Four opportunities for improving the protection of health care workers during a pandemic were identified: 1)Strengthening data collection and reporting standards of health care worker mortality and morbidity due to SARS-CoV-22)Improving the protection of health care workers3)Accelerating the vaccination of health care workers against SARS-CoV-2, and4)Addressing gender inequities in health careThese four approaches provide opportunities for improvement and are only preliminary steps in addressing the ‘perfect storm’ that the shortage of global health care workers and the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have created.Conclusion:The global community has a unique opportunity to protect health care workers and improve pandemic preparedness and response. The health and socioeconomic impact of SARS-CoV-2 has been unprecedented, and health care workers have borne the brunt of this pandemic. We owe our health care workers more. Without a well-trained and adequately resourced health care workforce that is prepared to face the next pandemic, we as a global community will not be able to deliver global health care or global security at the level that is required.
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Holland, Sara B. "The Welfare Implications of Health Capital Investment." Quarterly Journal of Finance 04, no. 02 (June 2014): 1450007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2010139214500074.

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I present a model of the health capital investment decision of a firm using a moral hazard framework. Health capital investment increases the probability that a worker is present and productive. The firm cannot verify a worker's health capital investment decision. When a firm invests in health capital, the investment is verifiable because the firm contracts with the insurer. I derive the optimal contract for when the worker and for when the firm invests in health capital. When the firm invests in health capital, the level of investment is higher and wages are less volatile. In my model, firms invest more than workers because of a production externality and because it is less costly to invest in health capital than to compensate the worker for bearing the risk of an uncertain labor realization. This result improves welfare, contrary to the benchmark that workers consume more health care than is efficient ex post when firms provide health insurance. Unlike the benchmark model of a worker and insurer, my model includes a profit maximizing firm, includes an endogenous probability of getting sick, and allows the insurer to set premiums by anticipating the health care investment level of the insured.
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Mutmainah, Mutmainah, Antonius Rino Vanchapo, Emanuel Suban Bala Lewar, Juandri Seprianto Tusi, Yuanyuan Wang, and Guijiao Zou. "Relationship Between Work Motivation and Health Worker Performance at Kronjo Health Center." Journal of World Future Medicine, Health and Nursing 1, no. 2 (August 15, 2023): 102–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.55849/health.v1i2.450.

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Shows that Indonesia is included in the 5 countries with the lowest motivation of health workers, besides Vietnam, Argentina, Nigeria and India. This is due to aspects of fulfilling welfare and information obtained that 175,000 employees 98,512 people or 56% complain about the low incentives received from the institutions where they work. The problem that occurs in health services today is the large number of health workers who do not have high motivation to work due to various factors such as heavy workload, high work risk, domestic and inadequate training programs, but not balanced by good job protection and unsatisfactory wages, not to mention welfare factors and competence factors according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Work motivation and performance of health workers have a very close relationship to performance. Health workers have an important role as executors of health worker services and community health development. This study aims to determine the relationship between work motivation and the performance of health workers at the Kronjo Health Center in 2022. This research is a quantitative study using an analytic survey with a cross-sectional research design. Work motivation in the sufficient category is 16 (38.1%) and the performance of health workers in the good category is 21 (50.2%). this study shows that the p-value = 0.029. this shows that the value of p = 0.029 is still smaller than the critical limit ? = 0.05. There is a significant relationship between work motivation and health worker performance (0.029<0.05).
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Darliana M, Hanisa H, Azmul Fadhli K, Nurulahda S, and Dian Darina Indah D. "ERGONOMIC ENGINEERING INTERVENTION OF BATIK STAMPING WORK TO REDUCE LIFTING LOAD." Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine 20, Special1 (August 1, 2020): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37268/mjphm/vol.20/no.special1/art.680.

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One of the common health problems for small and medium enterprise such as batik production is work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSD). This health problem may contribute to long-term medical effect on the production workers. For batik stamping workers, the load of the copper block that need to be used repetitively can reach up to 2kg. This study aims to reduce WMSD effect by reducing the lifting load of the cooper block handled by the batik stamping worker. The worker’s working load is observed before the intervention process by using one of the ergonomic risk assessment tools, Rapid Upper Limb Asssessment (RULA). The ergonomic intervention designed in this study is from the engineering approach by modifying tools. It is found out that the intervention done were able to eliminate the lifting load handled by the worker to avoid discomfort or further health complication. This outcome are hoped to be able to improve workers’ health and increase batik stamping work productivity that eventually increased company’s revenue.
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Park, Hyun Sang, Kwang Il Kim, Ho-Young Chung, Sungmoon Jeong, Jae Young Soh, Young Ho Hyun, and Hwa Sun Kim. "A Worker-Centered Personal Health Record App for Workplace Health Promotion Using National Health Care Data Sets: Design and Development Study." JMIR Medical Informatics 9, no. 8 (August 4, 2021): e29184. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/29184.

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Background Personal health record (PHR) technology can be used to support workplace health promotion, and prevent social and economic losses related to workers’ health management. PHR services can not only ensure interoperability, security, privacy, and data quality, but also consider the user’s perspective in their design. Objective Using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and national health care data sets, this study aimed to design and develop an app for providing worker-centered, interconnected PHR services. Methods This study considered the user’s perspective, using the human-centered design (HCD) methodology, to develop a PHR app suitable for occupational health. We developed a prototype after analyzing quantitative and qualitative data collected from workers and a health care professional group, after which we performed a usability evaluation. We structured workers’ PHR items based on the analyzed data, and ensured structural and semantic interoperability using FHIR, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine–Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT), and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC). This study integrated workers’ health information scattered across different Korean institutions through an interface method, and workers’ PHRs were managed through a cloud server, using Azure API for FHIR. Results In total, 562 workers from industrial parks participated in the quantitative study. The preferred data items for PHR were medication, number of steps walked, diet, blood pressure, weight, and blood glucose. The preferred features were ability to access medical checkup results, health information content provision, consultation record inquiry, and teleconsultation. The worker-centered PHR app collected data on, among others, life logs, vital signs, and medical checkup results; offered health care services such as reservation and teleconsultation; and provided occupational safety and health information through material safety data sheet search and health questionnaires. The app reflected improvements in user convenience and app usability proposed by 19 participants (7 health care professionals and 12 end users) in the usability evaluation. The After-Scenario Questionnaire (ASQ) was evaluated with a mean score of 5.90 (SD 0.34) out of 7, and the System Usability Scale (SUS) was evaluated a mean score of 88.7 (SD 4.83) out of 100. Conclusions The worker-centered PHR app integrates workers’ health information from different institutions and provides a variety of health care services from linked institutions through workers’ shared PHR. This app is expected to increase workers’ autonomy over their health information and support medical personnel’s decision making regarding workers’ health in the workplace. Particularly, the app will provide solutions for current major PHR challenges, and its design, which considers the user’s perspective, satisfies the prerequisites for its utilization in occupational health.
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Harris, P. J. "“Holistic” health workers." Medical Journal of Australia 156, no. 9 (May 1992): 664. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1992.tb121479.x.

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Whatley, Monica, Clese Erikson, Shana Sandberg, and Karen Jones. "Community Health Workers." Academic Medicine 92, no. 4 (April 2017): 565. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000001567.

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Kwan, Bethany M., Amy Rockwood, Brian Bandle, Douglas Fernald, Mika K. Hamer, and Roberta Capp. "Community Health Workers." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 24, no. 2 (2018): 146–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/phh.0000000000000540.

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Ospina, Salinas Estela. "Health surveillance of workers." THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/107293.

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In our legal system, fundamental rights to life and health of workers are important legallyprotected goods that cannot be disregarded. Therefore, the State and the   employers must put special emphasis on health and security surveillance of workers to prevent that employment relationships become an obstacle or a violation of such rights.In light of these precepts, the author makes an analysis of the protection given to these fundamental rights in our country. Basing on comparative legislation, she poses general concepts of  the State’s and the  employer´s responsibility of health and security surveillance of workers, allowing her to conclude that our system has still to confront many challenges in the path to achieve effective protection and enforcement of therights at stake.
En nuestro ordenamiento jurídico, los derechos fundamentales a la vida y la salud delos trabajadores son dos bienes jurídicos importantes y no pueden ser desconocidos. Por ello, el Estado y los empleadores deben poner especial énfasis en la vigilancia de la salud yseguridad de los trabajadores para evitar que la relación laboral sea un obstáculo o una violación de tales derechos.A la luz de ello, la autora hace un análisis de la protección de dichos derechos fundamentales en el ámbito laboral en nuestro país. Haciendo uso de legislación comparada,  presenta los conceptos generales de la vigilancia de la salud de los trabajadores y las responsabilidades del Estado y de los empleadores, permitiéndole concluir que nuestro ordenamiento aún tiene muchos retos para poder lograr una real protección y vigencia de los valores puestos en riesgo.
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Howard, Shevon Naomi. "Health literacy program proposal for health care workers." Thesis, Walden University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10145339.

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Health information literacy influences patient health outcomes, yet almost 90% of adults struggle to understand health information. This study explored the impact of an education course in health literacy on healthcare professionals’ methods of providing information to patients in order to increase effective communication and improve patient outcomes. This study drew from an integrated theoretical framework that suggests development and validation of tools to measure health literacy. Access to and understanding of reliable, high-quality health care information equalizes many other variables that impact health outcomes, including age, economic class, and cultural background. This study analyzed survey data collected from 2 doctors, 2 nurse practitioners, and 1 staff nurse selected based on their expertise and experience working with patients. They completed a learner- centered course, in which learners interact and instructors provide feedback. Based on survey responses, the participants strongly supported implementing the proposed education module. Four of the 5 experts agreed that a course in health literacy will help health care workers recognize and address patients with low health literacy. Limited health literacy is associated with poor health outcomes and higher health care costs. This type of literacy requires a complex group of reading, listening, analytical, and decision- making skills, and the ability to apply these skills to health situations. The results of this study may guide educators to effectively communicate with patients, increase health literacy, and improve patient outcomes.

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Schimp, Jeremiah Brian. "Health Behaviors, Hardiness, and Burnout in Mental Health Workers." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/228.

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Burnout has emerged as a significant and costly issue in the modern workforce. Researchers have not fully explored the role of individual health behaviors and personality in burnout among mental health workers. The knowledge gap addressed in this study was the connection between health behaviors, what mental health workers do to take care of themselves, and hardiness, the characteristic way they perceive and interpret environmental challenges. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of health behaviors and hardiness among mental health workers on the 3 dimensions of burnout as measured by the MBI-HSS: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment. The conservation of resources model and the theory of hardiness provided the framework for selecting variables and interpreting the results. An online survey research design was used with a sample of mental health workers from two nonprofit mental health organizations. A total of 223 participants were recruited through invitations sent to their work e-mail addresses. Statistical analysis included 5 stepwise regression analyses run for each of the 3 burnout dimensions. The results indicated that hardiness was the strongest predictor and was retained in the final model for all the burnout measures. Anger/Stress, a health-compromising behavior, was significantly predictive of Emotional Exhaustion in the final model, and age was included in the final model for Depersonalization. These results suggest that mental health workers are better able to maintain their emotional energy and compassion for clients through the cultivation of hardiness and management of stress; the implications will inform the development of training materials focused on stress management and adapting to change.
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Deacon, Claire Helen. "The health status of construction workers." Thesis, University of Port Elizabeth, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/326.

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The construction industry is considered to be an extremely dangerous working environment, and therefore the health status of construction workers needs to be considered prior, during and on leaving the industry. Occupational hazards relative to the construction worker are well researched internationally; however few countries undertake routine medical surveillance to identify the health status of the construction worker relative to these hazards. Employers have a higher duty of care to identify workers who could be a risk at work from non-occupationally related conditions such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Work could exacerbate these conditions, leading to absenteeism, poor performance and eventually leaving the industry due to ill health. The dissertation explores, inter alia: the risks to which workers are exposed; the legal aspects; relevant literature regarding medical surveillance, and the use of a medical surveillance instrument used to determine the health status of 142 construction workers who consented to participate in the study. The methodological approach used in this study was a quantitative descriptive design, more specifically, using a randomised cross-sectional survey design. The instrument used to determine health status included a full medical, occupational and social history, as well as a physical examination undertaken by Occupational Health Nursing Practitioners (OHNs). Findings indicate that most construction workers believe they are healthy. However only a small percentage of construction workers did not require referral for further investigation and / or treatment.
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Amani, Adidja. "The Health Workers Crises In Cameroon." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/139.

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The physician’s crisis in Cameroon has reached an alarming stage and has the potential to worsen existing health problems including the attainment of millennium development goals. This report emphasized the challenges faced by Cameroonian physicians, and recommended alternative solutions to the current government health workers policies. The report was done through a review of articles and documents covering the topic. At the center of the physician’s crises in Cameroon is the discrepancy between financial, social and professional expectations and what the government offers. The analysis showed that, there is a general dissatisfaction, despite some corrective measures implemented by the government. This suggests that the government needs to aggressively adopt and implement aggressive retention policies, such as improving the remuneration and working conditions of health workers. Beside, there is also need for innovation by adopting and implementing solutions that have been successful in others countries. As in many other countries, establishing powerful unions and lobbying groups by Cameroon physicians may help in negotiating acceptable working conditions that could help in alleviating the challenges of Cameroonian physicians. Despite some limitations, this report can be useful for policy-makers in the formulation of effective human resources for health policies but also to draw attention to the need to publish more on human resources for health issues in Cameroon.
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Williams, Roy Jerome III. "Integrating community health workers in schools." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81642.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-63).
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has set the tone for a radically revised health landscape in America that focuses on community-based care. Our health care system, however, has neither the infrastructure nor the vision to properly account for these demands. One possible solution is to redefine how established positions and organizations can be utilized to help accommodate the emerging needs. School-based health centers (SBHCs), for example, have traditionally provided general health services to students and members of the surrounding community. In many low-income neighborhoods, however, the needs of the community members far outpace the capabilities of the SBHCs and local community-based health centers. One promising answer to the need for community-based care is the integration of community health workers (CHWs) in SBHCs. The PPACA has identified CHWs as an integral component of health teams. They serve to connect people who have been historically marginalized to necessary health services and advocate on the behalf of community needs. This commentary proposes the integration of the CHW role into schools to provide comprehensive health-services to more students and community members than can be currently served. The argument begins with an examination of Massachusetts' CHW advocates' struggle to legitimize the field to gain the professional respect of other medical professions. Next, it explores the possibilities of a CHW in a school setting and makes recommendations to improve the viability and effectiveness of the role. It closes with an analysis of different views of community-based care and the role of planning in negotiating future workforce development challenges.
by Roy Jerome (RJ) Williams, III.
M.C.P.
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Sontyale, Ulungile Klaas. "Occupational stressors that influence professional health workers." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1098.

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Background: Despite the prevalence of HIV/AIDS stabilizing and slightly decreasing in certain provinces, there are a number of People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in South Africa. Many people seek help at primary health clinics and hospitals and receive chronic care at these facilities. Caring for these chronic patients and new patients entering the health system can be stressful to the health professionals who are involved. Many studies that have been conducted have focused on the clinical aspects of individual patients, while few studies have focused on the experiences and stressors of health professionals looking after PLWHA. To ensure quality of care for patients with HIV/AIDS, it is important to understand the experiences of health professionals looking after HIV/AIDS patients and how stressful experiences may influence their attitude towards these patients. Aim: The aim of this study is to report the factors health professionals perceive as occupational stressors caring for people living with HIV/AIDS in the public health sector of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. Research design and Methodology: A quantitative, descriptive and non-experimental research design was followed. A pilot study was conducted to determine the clarity of questions, effectiveness of the instructions, completeness of the response sets, the time required to complete the questionnaires and the success of the data collection. The primary method of data collection was self-administered questionnaires. The questionnaires were dispatched to 30 health professionals at the public health facilities in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. A descriptive statistical analysis was done using a Statistical Package. This revealed the following findings. Findings: The following are the findings that were perceived to be occupational stressors: organizational factors, job design factors, career and promotional factors, role-related factors and cultural factors. iv Conclusion and recommendations: There are occupational stressors that affect health care professionals working in an HIV/AIDS setting. The following are the recommendations to rectify or to improve the situation: • Improve the communication of goals and objectives; • Redesign the job; • Human-resources development ; • Improvement of salaries; • Career planning and mentoring; and • Sensitisation of employees to cultural differences.
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Ballard, Madeleine. "Community health workers : efficacy, taxonomy, and performance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0958a784-e5a1-432f-8980-6f65d93e698f.

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Background: This thesis presents an empirical investigation into the efficacy, types, and performance of community health workers (CHWs)-trained lay people to whom simple medical procedures can be "task shifted" from doctors. It has three objectives: (1) assess the effects of CHW delivered interventions for primary health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), (2) develop a comprehensive taxonomy of CHW characteristics and programme design features, and (3) assess the relative efficacy of different types of CHW programme designs and how they can be used to optimise CHW performance. Structure and Methods: Following the logic of early stage intervention development, this thesis has an iterative and developmental structure in which each section flows out of and builds on the previous section. Objective one is addressed in Chapters 2-4: scoping review, systematic review, and meta-analytic methods are applied to establish the efficacy and effectiveness of CHW-led interventions in LMICs. Objective two is addressed in Chapter 5: inductive, thematic analysis of systematically identified trials, influential papers, and existing information classification systems is used to develop a formal CHW taxonomy for intervention reporting and coding. Objective three is addressed in Chapter 6: systematic review methods are employed to identify interventions for improving the performance of community health workers in LMICs. Results: Objective one: a systematic review of 155 papers reporting 86 trials found high quality evidence that CHW delivered interventions reduce perinatal mortality, improve child nutritional status, and improve tuberculosis completion rates versus facility-based care. There is also moderate quality evidence that CHW delivered interventions improve certain mental, infectious disease, paediatric, and maternal health outcomes. In undertaking this process, an additional, methodological contribution was made in the form of a tool to reduce risk of bias in overviews of reviews. This tool may facilitate early stage intervention development in the future. Objective two: 253 records were used to establish, in a faceted taxonomy, the definitional clarity required for theory building and knowledge accumulation. Two categories (CHW Characteristics and CHW Programme Features) and six dimensions (Integration, Recruitment, Training, Supervision, Incentives, and Equipment) emerged. Objective three: a systematic review of 14 trials identified moderate quality evidence of the efficacy of CHW performance interventions in improving certain behavioural outcomes for patients, utilisation of services, and CHW quality of care. There was no effect on the biological outcomes of interest. Conclusion: In bringing the tools of evidence based practice to bear on community health worker interventions, this dissertation has contributed to the theoretical, methodological, and empirical evidence base from which the field can continue to advance.
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Gamiet, Shamila. "Health professionals' perceptions of rehabilitation care workers." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5246.

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Magister Scientiae (Physiotherapy) - MSc(Physio)
People with disabilities (PWD) often come from disadvantaged communities and struggle to access health and rehabilitation, education and employment. This leads to poorer health outcomes, lower education achievements, and higher rate of unemployment in comparison to people without disabilities. Therefore there is a need to empower PWD to remove all barriers which prevent them from participating in all aspects of their communities. In South Africa, 5% of the population is disabled and in a worldwide review conducted on access to rehabilitation services, it was reported that South Africa provided 21% to 40% of the disabled population with rehabilitation services. In 2012 the Department of Health (DOH) trained a new cadre of community health worker (CHW) in the field of rehabilitation in order to improve PWDs‘ access to health services. As a result, health professionals in the Western Cape became concerned about the role of this new cadre of rehabilitation care worker in PHC and CBS. The aim of this study was therefore to explore health professionals‘ perceptions of the newly trained rehabilitation care workers (RCWs). Q methodology was selected as an appropriate research design to meet the objectives of this study as it can be used to analyse opinions, perceptions and attitudes. The study population consisted of all the health professionals who engaged with the RCWs in the clinical workplace during their clinical practice module. A convenient sample of sixteen health professionals participated in this study. Ethics approval was obtained to conduct this study and all participants gave written consent to participate in this study. The researcher gathered all the viewpoints of the health professionals regarding the new rehabilitation care workers (RCWs) by conducting focus group discussions and document analysis. Statements were then drawn up based on the health professionals' viewpoints. The participants then ranked these statements from strongly agree to strongly disagree on a Q data score grid, in a process called Q sorting. The completed Q data score grids, called Q sorts, were then entered into PQMethod software programme for statistical and factor analysis. From the results of this Q analysis, two factors emerged which were analysed and interpreted. A factor is representative of participants with similar opinions. The participants loading onto Factor one and Factor two shared similar opinions of the RCWs. The results indicated that the participants were of the opinion that RCWs‘ role would be to strengthen primary health care (PHC) and community-based rehabilitation (CBR) and promote the participation of PWD in society. The results suggested that the RCWs were capable of improving the quality of life of PWD by empowering PWD to become actively involved in all aspects of community life. The participants felt that the RCWs would be included in the health system by working at intermediate care centres (facility-based) and in the community (home-based). However, the participants agreed that the RCWs must work under the direct supervision of qualified health professionals. Participants loading onto Factor one and Factor two further agreed that RCWs worked well in the structured environment of intermediate care health facilities. They felt that it would be beneficial for RCWs to be employed at these health facilities as the RCWs reduced the workload of the health professionals. From the results, it was also found that health professionals were of the opinion that the RCWs displayed positive attitudes and good professional behaviour in the clinical environment. Health professionals however identified gaps in the knowledge of the RCWs and a lack of skills to perform certain tasks. However, health professionals agreed that the RCWs' skills will develop and improve with time and exposure. This study showed that health professionals had positive perceptions of the RCWs and this could indicate that RCWs will be well accepted by health professionals as part of the PHC team. This could lead to the effective utilisation of RCWs in community-based rehabilitation. Recommendations can be made to the developers and implementers of the RCW training curriculum to make adjustments to the curriculum so as to address the lack of knowledge and skills in certain aspects of health and disability. It can further be recommended that South Africa's National DOH capitalise on these positive perceptions and train more RCWs to extend rehabilitation and health services to more underserved communities. This will assist the South African Government in ensuring that more PWD receive rehabilitation and become included in all aspects of their communities as is envisaged in the 2020/2030 health plan.
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Hsu, Tsui Hua. "Understanding the health experiences of Taiwanese workers." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2007. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16476/1/Tsui_Hua_Hsu_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis attempt to uncover the qualitative different ways that Taiwanese workers experienced health. Workers' health is important to a country's economic, cultural and social development. Both Taiwanese government and health professionals acknowledgement the importance of health. A considerable amount of literature has been released over the past two decades in Taiwan around related issues. Most published research has reported investigation into occupational disease diagnosis, disease prevention, safety behaviours and health-related intervention for behaviour change. None has addressed the health experiences of workers. To address this gap in knowledge and literature, phenomenographic research has been completed to identify and describe the ways in which Taiwanese workers in an industrial complex experience health. In-depth interview was undertaken with eighteen participants. The interview was tape-recorded and then transcribed verbatim. Data was collected in Mandarin or Taiwanese and analysed in Chinese. This avoids the loss or change of original meaning during the translation process. Significant quotations were then translated to English by the principal researcher. Discussions between the researcher and supervisor, and between researcher and another native English speaker who is be able to read Chinese were continuous through the analysis process to ensure that the English translation is as close possible as to the original meaning. The outcomes of the research have been the identification of five conceptions of health which together represent understanding of the experience and the meaning of health. The five distinct conceptions are: health is absence of disease; health is a holistic view of the body function; health is a reward of doing 'good' deeds; health as living a healthy lifestyle; and health as a consequence of stress management. All conceptions combined constitute an outcome space that represents the referential and structural relationship between conceptions. The research outcomes contribute to an understanding of how a group of Taiwanese workers were aware of their health experience and have significant implications for health professionals in developing and conducting health intervention, for policy makers in planning occupational health policies, for describing health with a cultural context and for educators of health professionals. Furthermore, this research provides the basis for further research into specific aspects of health and its meaning in different work settings.
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Abbatt, Fred, and Rosemary McMahon. Teaching Health-Care Workers. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18046-2.

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CARAM-Asia. Domestic workers and health. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: CARAM Asia, 2005.

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Simon, Paul L. S. Ontario workers' safety & health handbook. Don Mills, Ont: CCH Canadian, 1991.

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Tim, Berthold, Miller Jennifer 1963-, and Avila-Esparza Alma, eds. Foundations for community health workers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

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Catholic Church. Pontificium Consilium de Apostolatu pro Valetudinis Administris. Charter for health care workers. Ikeja, Nigeria: Paulines Publications Africa, 1995.

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Canada. Task Force on Health Surveillance of Workers. Health surveillance of workers: Report. Ottawa: Canadian Public Health Association, 1986.

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Catholic Church. Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers. Charter for health care workers: Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers. Boston: St Paul Books & Media, 1995.

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Shah, Rebecca S., ed. The International Migration of Health Workers. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230307292.

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Maes, Kenneth. The Lives of Community Health Workers. New York : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Anthropology and: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315400785.

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Kelly, Barbara. Safety meetings for health care workers. Madison, Conn: Business & Legal Reports, 1996.

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Urrutia-Rojas, Ximena, and Mary Luna-Hollen. "Community Health Workers." In Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health, 470–73. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5659-0_166.

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Lingard, Helen, and Michelle Turner. "Construction Workers' Health." In Integrating Work Health and Safety into Construction Project Management, 73–103. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119159933.ch4.

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Gotbaum, Victor. "Unionized Health Workers." In Advocacy in Health Care, 77–82. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5004-3_9.

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Lingard, Helen, and Michelle Turner. "Construction workers’ health." In Valuing People in Construction, 23–40. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Spon research, ISSN 1940-7653: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315459936-3.

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Goonetilleke, Maithri. "Community Health Workers." In Handbook of Global Health, 2525–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45009-0_108.

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Goonetilleke, Maithri. "Community Health Workers." In Handbook of Global Health, 1–11. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_108-1.

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Munro, Louise. "Mental Health Workers." In Trauma, Resilience, and Posttraumatic Growth in Frontline Personnel, 158–70. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003292807-15.

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Rausa, Bettina. "Female Sex Workers." In Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health, 692–96. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5659-0_287.

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Arkorful, Vincent Ekow. "Workers’ Mental Health Knowledge." In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, 1–13. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4259-1.

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Arkorful, Vincent Ekow. "Workers’ Mental Health Knowledge." In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, 13375–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66252-3_4259.

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Conference papers on the topic "Health workers"

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Molapo, Maletsabisa, Melissa Densmore, and Limpho Morie. "Designing with Community Health Workers." In AfriCHI'16: African Conference for Human Computer Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2998581.2998589.

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Bogorodskaya, Elena, Alexandr Markov, and Evgeny Belilovskiy. "Tuberculosis among health-care workers." In ERS International Congress 2021 abstracts. European Respiratory Society, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/13993003.congress-2021.pa2276.

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Winder, C., and G. Smith. "Dioxins in remediation workers." In ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND BIOMEDICINE 2011. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/ehr110221.

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Grilo, Luís M., Helena L. Grilo, Sónia P. Gonçalves, and Ana Junça. "Multinomial logistic regression in workers’ health." In PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING 2017 (ICCMSE-2017). Author(s), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5012392.

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Sekhar, Ch, S. Naga Mallik Raj, B. Vamsi, Debnath Bhattacharyya, and Tai-hoon Kim. "Health Tracking System for Migrant Workers." In Smart Technologies in Data Science and Communication 2017. Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2017.147.49.

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Daniyar, Pamogsa, Edo Riyandani, and Vitri Widyaningsih. "Occupational Illness Due to Ergonomic Factors in Textile Industry Workers." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.02.46.

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Background: Adapting tasks, work stations, tools and equipment to fit the worker can help reduce physical stress on a worker’s body and eliminate many potentially serious, disabling work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Recognizing ergonomic risk factors in the workplace is an essential first step in correcting hazards and improving worker protection. This study aimed to investigate the occupational illness due to ergonomic factors in textile industry workers. Subjects and Method: This was systematic review. Articles were collected from Pubmed, Science Direct, Garuda, and Google Scholar databases, and grey literature. All studies that reported prevalence of MSDs and ergonomic risk factors in the textile industry were collected for this study. 45 studies were identified and 17 studies reported that occupational illness was associated with ergonomic posture factors. Results: Prevalence of MSDs in the textile industry workers was 46.43-81.0%. High cases were occurred in neck, shoulder, upper extremity, and upper and lower back. MSD was highly experienced by male, aged >35 years, and tenure 6-10 years. Work attitude (61.63%) and work station (30.67%) were expected to cause MSDs. Nordic Body Map (NBM) is used to measure MSDs complaints. Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) is often used to measure work attitude. Conclusion: Textile industry workers are at high risk to experience musculoskeletal disorders. Keywords: occupational illness, ergonomic posture, manufacture workers, musculoskeletal disorders Correspondence: Edo Riyandani. Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret. Jl. Ir. Sutami 36A, Surakarta 57126, Central Java. Email: edoriyandani22@gmail.com. Mobile: +6285745298622. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.02.46
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Logan, Ryan. "O10 Community health workers: solving health issues and improving wellbeing." In Crafting the future of qualitative health research in a changing world abstracts. British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-qhrn.10.

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Cano, Paulina, Natalia Espino, Jacqueline Loweree, Monica Cadena, Arunkumar Pennathur, Luis R. Contreras-Sapien, Rebecca Ramos, and Rosalba Ruiz. "Leveraging Community Health Workers in Low Resource Health Delivery Systems." In 2012 Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1518/hcs-2012.945289401.018.

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Manning, Garth, Frank van Dijk, and Peter Buijs. "1701 Scaling up workers’ health coverage through primary health care." In 32nd Triennial Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), Dublin, Ireland, 29th April to 4th May 2018. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2018-icohabstracts.1186.

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Denny, Hanifa M. "1701d Universal health coverage and workers’ health developments in indonesia." In 32nd Triennial Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), Dublin, Ireland, 29th April to 4th May 2018. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2018-icohabstracts.1190.

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Reports on the topic "Health workers"

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Jarvis, Leah, and Nancy LaChance. Community health workers for maternal and child health. Population Council, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh2.1015.

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Lehrer, Steven, and Nuno Sousa Pereira. Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance: Evidence from Displaced Workers. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12951.

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Currie, Janet, and Aaron Yelowitz. Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, August 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w7291.

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Deshpande, Alina, and Nancy W. Ambrosiano. Helping health workers understand unfolding outbreaks. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), April 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1508569.

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Gihleb, Rania, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella, and Tianyi Wang. Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w30180.

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Steinmann, Peter. Do changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers impact on the supply of health workers? SUPPORT, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.30846/170209.

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In many countries there is a shortage of health workers. The high financial and resource investments needed to train health workers make it important to find ways to increase the number of students entering initial health professional training (sometimes referred to as pre-licensure training) and reduce the number of pre-graduation drop-outs. Ways to achieve this include interventions to increase the capacity of health professional training institutions; reduce the loss of students (and increase the likelihood that students will graduate); or increase the recruitment of students from other countries into health professional training institutions. Minority academic advisory programmes that include academic, personal, financial and vocational advising, skills building, mentorships, supplementary training, and annual evaluations are an approach to achieving this amongst students from minority groups.
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Mouland, Jemma. Health warning for employers: Supporting older workers with health conditions. Centre for Ageing Better, April 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31077/ageing.better.2018.04a.

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Biazus-Dalcin, Camila, Alison McFadden, and Emma Quinn. How Community Health Workers support the Gypsy/Traveller community: Health Support. University of Dundee, July 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001315.

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Biazus-Dalcin, Camila, Alison McFadden, and Emma Quinn. How Community Health Workers support the Gypsy/Traveller community: Beyond Health Support. University of Dundee, July 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001316.

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Galdos, Susana, Lucella Campbell, Patricia Mohammed, Debbie Rogow, Saumya RamaRao, Ali Mir, and Nicole Haberland. Linking reproductive health to social power: Community health workers in Belize and Pakistan. Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/pgy2.1009.

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