• Geneva, World Health Organization, 2002. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization recommended Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy includes five key components: securing political commitment, strengthening detection and diagnosis, ensuring drug availability, monitoring outcomes, and providing directly observed therapy (DOT) [ 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Associated with Failed Completion of Treatment for Latent Tuberculosis Infection - Chickasaw County, Mississippi, June 1999--March 2002. (cdc.gov)
  • In May 2001, the Fifty-fourth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA54.12, providing policy direction for strengthening nursing and midwifery services. (who.int)
  • 5 In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prepared a report for a Congressional appropriations committee revealing that the public health community was still structurally weak in nearly every area and there were critical gaps in workforce capacity and competency. (hsaj.org)
  • Congress passed two landmark bills, the Public Health Threats and Emergencies Act of 2000 (PL-106-505) and the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Act of 2002 (PL-107-288), that directed approximately ninety-nine million dollars to rebuilding public health capacities. (hsaj.org)
  • And they are joined by Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness David Chu. (archives.gov)
  • What Is the Impact on Readiness and Force Health Protection? (health.mil)
  • Human Resources for Health (HRH) have been a priority on the regional and global health development agenda, as a critical component of functional health systems that can ensure universal access to quality health care.1 Successively in 1998, 2002 and 2009, the WHO Regional Committee for Africa adopted resolutions calling for the expansion of the health workforce through their optimal production and utilization. (who.int)
  • Women make up almost half of the US workforce and greatly outnumber men in health-related occupations, placing them at higher risk of exposure to cleaning-related substances. (bmj.com)
  • Office for Africa convened a regional consultation in Pretoria, South Africa, in October 2011, on scaling up the health workforce for improved access to services. (who.int)
  • In addition, partners such as the European Commission, the UK Department for International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Global Health Workforce Alliance, IntraHealth and representatives of regional economic communities (RECs) participated in the consultation. (who.int)
  • The consultation reached consensus on the need for a regional Road map that addresses specific health workforce needs and capacity gaps that adversely impact on the quality of health care in the Region. (who.int)
  • vi) strengthening health workforce partnership and dialogue. (who.int)
  • Since the search indicated that there is no such work, in this paper, we report on the literature on workforce planning and human resource planning for palliative care personnel. (jpalliativecare.com)
  • A 1988 report by the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) warned of the deteriorating public health workforce. (hsaj.org)
  • Immunization of health-care workers: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [ACIP] and the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee [HICPAC]. (cdc.gov)
  • ABSTRACT Standard/universal precautions reduce the risk of transmission of bloodborne infections among patients and health care workers. (who.int)
  • HRH units and departments in their ministries of health which face difficulty in carrying out their functions effectively including management of health workers in decentralized health services. (who.int)
  • To characterize risk factors for EMS workers involved in ambulance crashes, CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and NHTSA investigated three case reports of ambulance crashes. (cdc.gov)
  • EMS personnel in the United States have an estimated fatality rate of 12.7 per 100,000 workers, more than twice the national average ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In March 2007, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against female workers who simply wanted their health plan to cover contraception on the same terms it covered other preventive care as well as Viagra and Rogaine for men. (womensenews.org)
  • In his first budget proposal he silently tried to ax contraception out of health benefits for federal workers. (womensenews.org)
  • A Guide for training teachers of health workers / edited by M. Amri, P. Ngatia, A. O. Mwakilasa. (who.int)
  • Primary child care : a manual for health workers / Maurice King, Felicity King, Soebagyo Martodipoero. (who.int)
  • Assessing health workers' performance : a manual for training and supervision / F. M. Katz, R. Snow. (who.int)
  • Quality health care for the elderly : a manual for instructors of nurses and other health workers. (who.int)
  • Approximately 2.4 million US military service members and health care workers have since been inoculated, with considerable numbers experiencing adverse reactions. (bvsalud.org)
  • WHO estimates that saving six million lives yearly from cardiovascular diseases and stroke will require not only a combination of essential drugs, but also health promotion and the implementation of disease-prevention measures by a large number of community nursing and midwifery personnel. (who.int)
  • Human resources development for health: accelerating implementation of the regional strategy, 2002. (who.int)
  • Leanne worked within a private Occupational Health company as a stress consultant before joining the School of Health and Human Sciences in 2006. (essex.ac.uk)
  • This work aims to identify a procedure that can be implemented across the three Forces as they work more closely together in a number of operational and occupational health areas. (essex.ac.uk)
  • Paper presented at the Occupational Health NurseAdvisers to the Police Service Annual Conference. (essex.ac.uk)
  • We are one of the UK's leading providers of occupational health services. (csp.org.uk)
  • Established in 2002 by a group of occupational health professionals, we have experienced strong, steady growth. (csp.org.uk)
  • We offer a full portfolio of occupational health services, combining them into bespoke programmes that suit your organisation's people and their needs. (csp.org.uk)
  • An animal care and use program (hereafter referred to as the Program) comprises all activities conducted by and at an institution that have a direct impact on the well-being of animals, including animal and veterinary care, policies and procedures, personnel and program management and oversight, occupational health and safety, institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) functions, and animal facility design and management. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The activities conducted by and at an institution that have a direct impacton the well-being of animals, including animal and veterinary care, policies and procedures, personnel and program management and oversight, occupational health and safety, IACUC functions, and animal facility design and management. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a federal research agency in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded the 2004 NIOSH-ACTE national occupational safety and health competition among teachers/instructors at career and technical schools and community colleges throughout the country. (cdc.gov)
  • This report updates the previously published summary of recommendations for vaccinating health-care personnel (HCP) in the United States (CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • urgent care centers, and outpatient clinics as well as to persons who provide home health care and emergency medical services. (cdc.gov)
  • This report updates the previously published summary of recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Healthcare (formerly Hospital) Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) for vaccinating health-care personnel (HCP) in the United States ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • HCP are defined as all paid and unpaid persons working in health-care settings who have the potential for exposure to patients and/or to infectious materials, including body substances, contaminated medical supplies and equipment, contaminated environmental surfaces, or contaminated air. (cdc.gov)
  • Health staff do not perceive a risk due to ED overcrowding when the NEDOCS scores correspond to overcrowding categories equal to or over 5 (severely crowded and dangerously crowded), which poses a risk to patient safety and care. (univalle.edu.co)
  • For instance, a poor organizational climate with high workloads increased the likelihood of needle-stick injuries to hospital nurses by 50%, and lowered staffing levels of nurses were clearly linked to a raised number of infections associated with health care. (who.int)
  • The consultation also recognized the challenges the Region is facing in delivering quality health care and agreed on a number of principles that will enhance HRH production, deployment and performance. (who.int)
  • The purpose of this document is to introduce the Road map and highlight the key issues and challenges hindering the achievement of universal coverage of health care and relating to the human resources component of the health system. (who.int)
  • According to the National Institutes of Health, health care providers diagnose about 54,000 new cases of oral cancer per year in the United States. (health.mil)
  • Further, prevalence estimates may vary substantially based on the wording of questions asked, the timeframe asked about (e.g., past year, any time during military service), the context in which the questions are asked (e.g., research survey, by a provider in a health care setting), level of confidentiality involved, and other factors. (va.gov)
  • Data from the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) universal screening program, in which all former service members seen for health care in VA are asked about experiences of MST, are also informative. (va.gov)
  • We also provide innovative medical care training courses that give personnel the skills they need to handle medical emergencies. (csp.org.uk)
  • US Code, 42 USC § 289d) and the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (PHS 2002). (nationalacademies.org)
  • Co-Chair, Task Force to Study Retiree Health-Care Funding Options, 2005. (maryland.gov)
  • As we compare the candidates' plans for health care, bear in mind the Catholic Church owns a substantial portion of hospitals in the current system and has a long history of lobbying against access to birth control. (womensenews.org)
  • Under McCain's plan, churches and insurance companies will control even more of our health care. (womensenews.org)
  • Human rights principles that apply to patient care include both the right to the highest attainable standard of health, which covers both positive and negative guarantees in respect of health, as well as civil and political rights ranging from the patient's right to be free from torture and inhumane treatment to liberty and security of person. (hhrjournal.org)
  • They also focus attention on the right of socially excluded groups to be free from discrimination in the delivery of health care. (hhrjournal.org)
  • Patient care is a discrete and important aspect of the right to health that merits attention and scrutiny as a human rights issue. (hhrjournal.org)
  • A vast and severe range of human rights violations occur in the patient care context that violate rights in addition to the right to health, including many civil and political rights. (hhrjournal.org)
  • This article outlines a framework for human rights in patient care that is closely related both to the right to health and to the more colloquial notion of "patients' rights" but is distinct from them-as well as from complementary frameworks such as patient safety and bioethics-in important ways. (hhrjournal.org)
  • Instead of the humane and appropriate health care expected, patients and health providers in many settings encounter a variety of abuses that affront basic human dignity and jeopardize health outcomes. (hhrjournal.org)
  • Health providers likewise may face abuses such as unsafe working conditions, sanctions for providing evidence-based health care, limits on their freedom of association, and denial of due process when patients make complaints against them. (hhrjournal.org)
  • Dorland's Medical Dictionary defines "patient care" as "the services rendered by members of the health profession and non-professionals under their supervision for the benefit of the patient . (hhrjournal.org)
  • 1 This differs from "health care," where services are provided "for the purposes of promoting, maintaining, monitoring, or restoring health. (hhrjournal.org)
  • In accordance with the Continuation of Health Insurance Coverage Act, which is outlined in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), University employees and their covered dependents (i.e., qualified beneficiaries) may continue health, dental, and health care flexible spending account coverage at their own expense after they lose eligibility due to a qualifying event. (usu.edu)
  • Since 2002, 4 states have enacted legislation that requires health care organizations to publicly disclose health care-associated infection (HAI) rates. (cdc.gov)
  • Advocates of mandatory public reporting of HAIs believe that making such information publicly available will enable consumers to make more informed choices about their health care and improve overall health care quality by reducing HAIs. (cdc.gov)
  • Consumer demand for health care information, Many state and national initiatives are underway to including data about the performance of health care mandate or induce health care organizations to pub- providers, has increased steadily over the past decade. (cdc.gov)
  • From the Office of the Director,a the Healthcare Outcomes Branch,b holders, including consumers, to make more informed and the Prevention and Evaluation Branch,c Division of Healthcare choices on health care issues. (cdc.gov)
  • Public reporting of health care performance infor- for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Department of mation has taken several forms. (cdc.gov)
  • Physicians licensed to practice include practising and other (non-practising) physicians who are registered and entitled to practice as health care professionals. (who.int)
  • The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness ratios and the economic burden of oral care in the public health service from both the service and the society's perspective. (bvsalud.org)
  • Economic assessment of health care is a useful tool to determine how scarce resources can be used to best benefit the community. (bvsalud.org)
  • After the 2004 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), the Ministry of Health implemented extensive virologic surveillance ( 1 , 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Health services outside of West Africa, including our own in Ireland, are on high alert to ensure that this does not become a full-blown international outbreak. (trocaire.org)
  • The health services here were extremely weak even before this outbreak. (trocaire.org)
  • Other participants were health regulatory bodies, health professional associations, public health associations, deans of medical schools and health sciences and training institutions. (who.int)
  • In this edition of Ask the Doc, we get expert advice from retired U.S. Public Health Service Capt. (Dr.) Joshua Morganstein, deputy director at the Center for Study of Traumatic Stress in the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and vice chair of the University's department of psychiatry, on ways to address mental health concerns when you, a friend, or a loved one is going through a tough time. (health.mil)
  • The National Health and Nutrition Examination help develop sound public health policy, Survey (NHANES) is a program of studies direct and design health programs and designed to assess the health and nutritional services, and expand the health knowledge status of adults and children in the United for the Nation. (cdc.gov)
  • The strengthening of nursing and midwifery services forms an integral component of this activity, and is essential to ensuring that the health-related targets of the goals are met. (who.int)
  • 2 Nursing and midwifery services: strategic directions 2002-2008 . (who.int)
  • Furthermore, three resolutions of the World Health Assembly recognized the importance of HRH in ensuring the delivery of quality health services and the achievement of better health outcomes. (who.int)
  • Ambulance crashes are one of many hazards faced by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel. (cdc.gov)
  • Please remember that health insurance coverage varies, so some services may not be covered. (wakehealth.edu)
  • In a private, nonprofit health maintenance organization, we mailed recruitment brochures to two populations: depressed adults (n = 6994) who received traditional medical services for depression, and an age/gender matched sample of nondepressed adults (n = 6996). (jmir.org)
  • RÉSUMÉ Afin d'évaluer le niveau de satisfaction des médecins en matière de services fournis par les laboratoires cliniques hospitaliers et les facteurs associés dans le gouvernorat d'Aden, nous avons mené la présente étude transversale entre septembre 2008 et septembre 2009. (who.int)
  • Satisfaction is an important element of could also be extended to other labora- tine and stat turnaround times (TAT), the quality of services, including health tories in the country. (who.int)
  • Objectives Work-related asthma (WRA) is an important public health problem affecting one quarter of adults with asthma. (bmj.com)
  • All but one of the researchers used by Unicef were employees of the Ministry of Health, according to the Lancet. (medialens.org)
  • 1 Questionnaires are sent to participants approximately every 3 years to collect information on service related experiences as well as mental, physical, and behavioral health. (health.mil)
  • Compliance was lowest among Navy personnel in all but 1 year (2004) of the 13-year period. (health.mil)
  • During this year, the Ministries of Nuclear Energy, Emergencies, Health and the Federal Security Service conducted joint training sessions for their personnel detachments. (pravda.ru)
  • Legislator of the Year, Health Facilities Association of Maryland, 2008. (maryland.gov)
  • The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) is a prospective cohort study of 15,105 civil servants, examined at baseline and over a 4-year follow-up. (scielo.br)
  • Nonadherence to TB therapy can lead to poor health outcomes, such as prolonged infectivity, increase in risk of relapse after treatment, generation and propagation of drug resistance, treatment failure, and increased mortality, all of which pose a serious health risk for individuals and communities [ 10 , 11 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • In addition, it has published strategic directions,2 outlining five crucial areas where interventions are needed: human resources planning and capacity building, management of personnel, evidence-based practice, education, and stewardship. (who.int)
  • To maximize their impact on health systems' performance, support to countries is a high priority, in particular for disseminating the strategic directions and their adoption at country level. (who.int)
  • These are not the manpower issues for solving surge-capacity limitations, but rather manpower issues for the basic public health functions and critical planning, organization, and infrastructure development supporting bioterrorism preparedness. (hsaj.org)
  • Pan American Health Organization. (who.int)
  • Prevention (CDC), U.S. Public Health Service, will be collected on the prevalence of and has the responsibility for producing vital chronic conditions in the population. (cdc.gov)
  • This regional consultation brought together more than 145 stakeholders including senior officials from the ministries of health, finance, education, labour and public service. (who.int)
  • Despite progress in treatment and prevention, tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health problem, particularly in low- and middle-income countries [ 1 , 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Fellow public servants and distinguished guests, our judges that we'd like to thank for their participation in our program, our awardees, our honored guests, it is my pleasure to welcome you today to the 2002 President s Quality Awards Ceremony. (archives.gov)
  • Members of the British Army who were finishing a 6-week combined arms training exercise in Nanyuki, Kenya, completed routine public health surveillance questionnaires. (health.mil)
  • The Strategy for Homeland Security stresses the need for a robust public health component to respond to and recover from a range of emergencies. (hsaj.org)
  • However, dire problems with the current public health manpower infrastructure have been reported for more than fifteen years and continue to be a problem. (hsaj.org)
  • We focus on Union County, New Jersey to determine baseline staffing requirements to conduct routine public health functions as well as performing critical tasks to support the infrastructure for bioterrorism preparedness. (hsaj.org)
  • Only if the infrastructure is sustainable can any level of public health preparedness be maintained, including the capability to mount, deploy, train, and manage a response during a crisis. (hsaj.org)
  • It is imperative that the capacity of the public health infrastructure is increased as a homeland security priority. (hsaj.org)
  • Federal and state spending priorities must be re-aligned for public health to become a partner in the mission of homeland security. (hsaj.org)
  • The role of public health at the national, federal, state and local level has become an important component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). (hsaj.org)
  • Homeland Security has elevated public health personnel to first-responder status. (hsaj.org)
  • However, public health has not received sustained funding to address the new directives and tasks it has been mandated to perform. (hsaj.org)
  • This funding strategy relied on the assumption that public health has a fully functional infrastructure that can simply be refocused and aimed in new directions. (hsaj.org)
  • public health infrastructure has been cut to a point where most health agencies are barely staffed to operate during a normal workday. (hsaj.org)
  • 2 Questions arise whether public health departments have the requisite manpower to perform the duties required of them - from basic functions of public health to managing, coordinating, and deploying bioterrorism emergency surge responses. (hsaj.org)
  • The problems and perils associated with the current state of the public health infrastructure have been the subject of many reports and publications for well over fifteen years. (hsaj.org)
  • 6 Other studies conducted by prominent public health associations - the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) - supported these findings. (hsaj.org)
  • However, HICPAC has developed this guidance document based on established principles for public health and HAI reporting systems. (cdc.gov)
  • These updated recommendations can assist hospital administrators, infection-control practitioners, employee health clinicians, and HCP in optimizing infection prevention and control programs. (cdc.gov)
  • ATSDR distributed the Health Survey of Marine Corps Personnel and Civilians in 2011, and expects to deliver results in 2014. (cdc.gov)
  • The ATSDR Health Survey of Marine Corps Personnel and Civilians was mailed in 2011 and 2012. (cdc.gov)
  • The ATSDR Health Survey of Marine Corps Personnel and Civilians asked questions about more than twenty different cancers and other diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Perpetrators of MST can be anyone-for example, they can be of any gender, and can be military personnel or civilians, superiors or subordinates in the chain of command, strangers, friends or intimate partners. (va.gov)
  • A major thrust of WHO's contribution to achieving these goals is the enhancement of the capacity of national health systems and the scaling up of efforts to tackle the major diseases of poverty. (who.int)
  • The purpose of this study was to identify modes of treatment delivery and explore patient and healthcare personnel perceptions of barriers and facilitators to treatment success. (hindawi.com)
  • Establishing strong patient-healthcare personnel relationships, responding to patient needs, capitalizing on community resources, and maximizing established decentralized system could mitigate some of the barriers. (hindawi.com)
  • The final report on the results from the ATSDR Health Survey of Marine Corps Personnel and Civilian Employees is currently undergoing agency review. (cdc.gov)
  • Leanne is also working on a funded project with colleagues in HHS evaluating a Perinatal Infant Mental Health Service that is being delivered by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and Norfolk County Council. (essex.ac.uk)
  • Martyn, D., Andrews, L. & Byrne, M. Prevalence and risk factors of mental health difficulties in adolescents aged 16 and 17 years living in rural Ireland. (essex.ac.uk)
  • The NHANES detailed interview includes ductive health, such as use of oral contracep demographic, socioeconomic, dietary, and tives and breastfeeding practices, also will health-related questions. (cdc.gov)
  • 1 TD has been the most common medical problem and remains one of the most important health threats among globally deployed military members, both in combat and peacetime missions. (health.mil)
  • Optimistically, Union County is staffed at sixty-eight percent of the needed manpower to fulfill either state/federal health objectives or bio preparedness functions. (hsaj.org)
  • NEDOCS vs subjective evaluation, ¿Is the health personnel of the emergency department aware of its overcrowding? (univalle.edu.co)
  • To compare the objective NEDOCS scale with a subjective evaluation by ED health staff in order to evaluate the differences between the two. (univalle.edu.co)
  • Our next FINALIST, in the category of Expanded Electronic Government, is the TRICARE Management Activity, Military Health Systems of the Department of Defense. (archives.gov)
  • Special systems for individual farmers, military personnel, and police personnel. (ssa.gov)
  • Travelers' diarrhea (TD) has historically been common among deployed military personnel and remains a leading infectious disease threat to this population. (health.mil)
  • Methods Healthy military personnel (16 male/10 female) were asked to lie motionless on a typical general service stretcher until they felt pain. (bmj.com)
  • 2004-08-06T19:29:32-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvY2Q2XC8yMDA0MDgwNjE5MzIzMjAwMV9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Charles Abell talked about among the issues he addressed were numbers of personnel voting with absentee ballots, interagency cooperation in voter education and ballot processing, and the logistics of the operations. (c-span.org)
  • The Appleton Area School District Technology Education Safety Plan has been an ongoing project since the fall 2002. (cdc.gov)
  • Dineen, B.R. and Noe, R.A. (2003), "THE IMPACT OF TEAM FLUIDITY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICE", Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management ( Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, Vol. 22 ), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-37. (emerald.com)
  • conduct of experimentation on living animals exclusively by and/or under the close supervision of qualified and experienced personnel. (nationalacademies.org)