Monitoring of health care personnel employee and occupational health immunization program practices in the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth M. Carrico ◽  
Nikka Sorrells ◽  
Kelly Westhusing ◽  
Timothy Wiemken
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Care Personnel ◽  
Immunization Program

Hepatitis B Antigen and Antibody in the United States Army: Two-Year Follow-up of Health Care Personnel

1979 ◽  
Vol 144 (12) ◽  
pp. 792-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert E. Segal ◽  
L. Charlene Evans ◽  
Gilbert R. Irwin ◽  
Michael C. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Hepatitis B ◽  
United States Army ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Care Personnel ◽  
Hepatitis B Antigen

scholarly journals Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 658-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie A. de Perio ◽  
Chad H. Dowell ◽  
Lisa J. Delaney ◽  
Lewis J. Radonovich ◽  
David T. Kuhar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Personal Protective Equipment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Health Care Personnel ◽  
Occupational Health Services ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
Respiratory Protection ◽  
N95 Respirators

ABSTRACTN95 respirators are personal protective equipment most often used to control exposures to infections transmitted via the airborne route. Supplies of N95 respirators can become depleted during pandemics or when otherwise in high demand. In this paper, we offer strategies for optimizing supplies of N95 respirators in health care settings while maximizing the level of protection offered to health care personnel when there is limited supply in the United States during the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic. The strategies are intended for use by professionals who manage respiratory protection programs, occupational health services, and infection prevention programs in health care facilities to protect health care personnel from job-related risks of exposure to infectious respiratory illnesses. Consultation with federal, state, and local public health officials is also important. We use the framework of surge capacity and the occupational health and safety hierarchy of controls approach to discuss specific engineering control, administrative control, and personal protective equipment measures that may help in optimizing N95 respirator supplies.

Health Outcomes and Health Care Utilization Among Obstetric Deliveries With Concurrent CKD in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea L. Oliverio ◽  
Lindsay K. Admon ◽  
Laura H. Mariani ◽  
Tyler N.A. Winkelman ◽  
Vanessa K. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Utilization ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Utilization

The Special Perils of Being Old and Sick in Prison

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 276-284
Author(s):  
William J. Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Constitution ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Access To Medical Care

The United States Supreme Court declared in 1976 that deliberate indifference to the serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain…proscribed by the Eighth Amendment. It matters not whether the indifference is manifested by prison doctors in their response to the prisoner’s needs or by prison guards intentionally denying or delaying access to medical care or intentionally interfering with treatment once prescribed—adequate prisoner medical care is required by the United States Constitution. My incarceration for four years at the Oakdale Satellite Prison Camp, a chronic health care level camp, gives me the perspective to challenge the generally promoted claim of the Bureau of Federal Prisons that it provides decent medical care by competent and caring medical practitioners to chronically unhealthy elderly prisoners. The same observation, to a slightly lesser extent, could be made with respect to deficiencies in the delivery of health care to prisoners of all ages, as it is all significantly deficient in access, competencies, courtesies and treatments extended by prison health care providers at every level of care, without regard to age. However, the frailer the prisoner, the more dangerous these health care deficiencies are to his health and, therefore, I believe, warrant separate attention. This paper uses first-hand experiences of elderly prisoners to dismantle the tale that prisoner healthcare meets constitutional standards.

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