Occupational accidents involving biological material among public health workers

O acidente de trabalho é o que ocorre pelo exercício do trabalho a serviço da empresa ou pelo exercício do trabalho. O objetivo deste estudo é descrever as características dos profissionais da enfermagem que sofrem acidentes de trabalho com material biológico. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica integrativa desenvolvida no banco de dados do LILACS e na Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS). O período da pesquisa foi de 2010 a 2015. Os descritores foram: Acidentes de trabalho, Material biológico, Equipe de enfermagem. Foram pesquisados artigos científicos com enfoque no acidente de trabalho com material biológico. Após a leitura dos artigos, formulou-se categorias: Categoria profissional, exposição ocupacional, faixa etária e sexo. Conclui-se que a categoria profissional mais acometida é o auxiliar/técnico de enfermagem, faixa etária de 20 a 30 anos de idade, com exposição ocupacional a sangue e fluidos corporais. A unidade de lotação mais citada foi o centro cirúrgico.Descritores: Acidentes de Trabalho, Material Biológico, Enfermagem. Nursing: characteristics of the professionals who suffer accidents with biological material Abstract: The accident at work is what occurs by the exercise of work at the service of the company or by the exercise of work. The objective of this study is to describe the characteristics of nursing professionals who suffer occupational accidents with biological material. This is a bibliographic research integrative developed in the database of the LILACS and in nursing, in Virtual Health Library (VHL). The research period was from 2010 to 2015. The descriptors were: accidents at work, biological material, the nursing team. Were researched scientific articles focusing on work accident with biological material. After reading the articles, we formulated if categories: professional category, occupational exposure, age and sex. It is concluded that the professional category most frequently affected is the nursing auxiliary/technician, age range from 20 to 30 years of age, with occupational exposure to blood and body fluids. The unit for coupage most cited was the surgical center.Descriptors: Accidents at Work, Biological Material, Nursing. Enfermería: características de los profesionales que sufren accidentes con material biológico Resumen: El accidente de trabajo es lo que ocurre por el ejercicio del trabajo al servicio de la empresa o por el ejercicio del trabajo. El objetivo de este estudio es describir las características de los profesionales de enfermería que sufren accidentes de trabajo con material biológico. Se trata de una investigación bibliográfica integrativo desarrollado en la base de datos LILACS y en la Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (BVS). El periodo de estudio fue de 2010 a 2015. Los descriptores son: accidentes de trabajo, material biológico, el equipo de enfermería. Se investigó artículos científicos centrados en accidente de trabajo con material biológico. Después de leer los artículos, hemos formulado si categorías: categoría profesional, la exposición ocupacional, edad y sexo. Se concluye que la categoría profesional más frecuentemente afectada es la auxiliar de enfermería/técnico, el rango de edad de 20 a 30 años de edad, con la exposición ocupacional a sangre y fluidos corporales. La unidad de mezcla más citada fue el centro quirúrgico.Descriptores: Accidente de Trabajo, Material Biológico, Enfermería.

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During COVID-19, which is more effective in work accident prevention behavior of healthcare professionals: Safety awareness or fatalism perception?

Work ◽

10.3233/wor-203327 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 67 (4) ◽

pp. 783-790

Author(s):

Özgün Ünal

Keyword(s):

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Health Workers ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Accident Prevention ◽

Middle Level ◽

Occupational Accidents ◽

Safety Awareness ◽

Prevention Behavior ◽

Work Accident ◽

Work Accidents

BACKGROUND: As the pandemic process, COVID-19 has a serious occupational safety risk for healthcare professionals. Therefore, determining their health and safety perceptions and attitudes in the pandemic process is very important. This study aims to determine which is more effective in work accident prevention behavior: safety awareness and competencies of healthcare professionals or perception of fatalism. METHOD: For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to 326 healthcare professionals. The questionnaire consists of four parts: (1) demographic information of the employees, (2) scale of preventing occupational accidents, (3) fatalism perception scale in occupational health and safety, and (4) security awareness and competency scale. Descriptive statistical methods, multiple regression and correlation analysis were used in the analysis of the data. RESULTS: It was determined that the participants’ safety awareness and competencies were at the high level and their fatalism perceptions were at the low level. The average of the responses given by the participants to the scale of preventing work accidents was above the middle level. According to the study, the safety awareness and competencies of health workers were found to be about three times more effective on the behavior of preventing work accidents than the perception of fatalism. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, it is important to recommend managers to take the step to increase the safety awareness and competencies of those working in their institutions.

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Ketersediaan Tenaga Kesehatan Promotif dan Preventif Puskesmas di Kabupaten Jember

Multidisciplinary Journal ◽

10.19184/multijournal.v2i1.20107 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 16

Author(s):

Rizkiy Shofiah ◽

Dewi Prihatini ◽

Sebastiana Viphindartin

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Service ◽

Human Resources ◽

Community Health ◽

Health Workers ◽

Community Health Service ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Health Human Resources ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

Public Health Workers

Community Health service is the first level facility which enables promotive and preventive service to gain health. The administration of health service should be supported by qualified medical workers to support the function of community health service. Concerrning its function, the service is required to have at least five promotive and preventive workers including laboratory analyst, nutritionist, public health workers, and sanitary worker. The availability of medical human resources in Community Health service has not yet distributed evenly in Jember Regency. The recruitment of the health human resources in Jember still focuses on medical workers This research is a descriptive research using qualitative approach aiming at describing the availability of promotive and preventive workers in Community health service in Jember regency based on Minimum Resources Standard. The findings shows that out of 50 Health service 30 of them do not have analyst , 28 without nutritionist, 37 with no public health workers and 36 without sanitation workers , as shown by data from Health Office. The informant reveals that the uneven distribution of promotive and primitive workers is caused by (1) Health office zero recruitment for Health service, (2) the policy restriction for health service for utrititonist, (3) the limit of Health service budget for the recruitment. Keyword: the availability, promotive and preventive workers, community health service

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Enfermagem: características dos profissionais que sofrem acidentes com material biológico

Revista Recien - Revista Científica de Enfermagem ◽

10.24276/rrecien2358-3088.2015.5.15.30-36 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (15) ◽

pp. 30

Author(s):

Maria De Lourdes Lima Oliveira Cardoso ◽

Edna Marcia Grahl Brandalize Slob

Keyword(s):

Occupational Exposure ◽

Biological Material ◽

Occupational Accidents ◽

Exposure Age ◽

Professional Category ◽

Nursing Team ◽

Work Accident ◽

Nursing Professionals ◽

Age Range ◽

Research Period

O acidente de trabalho é o que ocorre pelo exercício do trabalho a serviço da empresa ou pelo exercício do trabalho. O objetivo deste estudo é descrever as características dos profissionais da enfermagem que sofrem acidentes de trabalho com material biológico. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica integrativa desenvolvida no banco de dados do LILACS e na Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS). O período da pesquisa foi de 2010 a 2015. Os descritores foram: Acidentes de trabalho, Material biológico, Equipe de enfermagem. Foram pesquisados artigos científicos com enfoque no acidente de trabalho com material biológico. Após a leitura dos artigos, formulou-se categorias: Categoria profissional, exposição ocupacional, faixa etária e sexo. Conclui-se que a categoria profissional mais acometida é o auxiliar/técnico de enfermagem, faixa etária de 20 a 30 anos de idade, com exposição ocupacional a sangue e fluidos corporais. A unidade de lotação mais citada foi o centro cirúrgico.Descritores: Acidentes de Trabalho, Material Biológico, Enfermagem. Nursing: characteristics of the professionals who suffer accidents with biological material Abstract: The accident at work is what occurs by the exercise of work at the service of the company or by the exercise of work. The objective of this study is to describe the characteristics of nursing professionals who suffer occupational accidents with biological material. This is a bibliographic research integrative developed in the database of the LILACS and in nursing, in Virtual Health Library (VHL). The research period was from 2010 to 2015. The descriptors were: accidents at work, biological material, the nursing team. Were researched scientific articles focusing on work accident with biological material. After reading the articles, we formulated if categories: professional category, occupational exposure, age and sex. It is concluded that the professional category most frequently affected is the nursing auxiliary/technician, age range from 20 to 30 years of age, with occupational exposure to blood and body fluids. The unit for coupage most cited was the surgical center.Descriptors: Accidents at Work, Biological Material, Nursing. Enfermería: características de los profesionales que sufren accidentes con material biológico Resumen: El accidente de trabajo es lo que ocurre por el ejercicio del trabajo al servicio de la empresa o por el ejercicio del trabajo. El objetivo de este estudio es describir las características de los profesionales de enfermería que sufren accidentes de trabajo con material biológico. Se trata de una investigación bibliográfica integrativo desarrollado en la base de datos LILACS y en la Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (BVS). El periodo de estudio fue de 2010 a 2015. Los descriptores son: accidentes de trabajo, material biológico, el equipo de enfermería. Se investigó artículos científicos centrados en accidente de trabajo con material biológico. Después de leer los artículos, hemos formulado si categorías: categoría profesional, la exposición ocupacional, edad y sexo. Se concluye que la categoría profesional más frecuentemente afectada es la auxiliar de enfermería/técnico, el rango de edad de 20 a 30 años de edad, con la exposición ocupacional a sangre y fluidos corporales. La unidad de mezcla más citada fue el centro quirúrgico.Descriptores: Accidente de Trabajo, Material Biológico, Enfermería.

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Policy Critique: The Philippine's Magna Carta of Public Health Workers

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e570102013-002 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Carl Abelardo T. Antonio

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Workers ◽

Magna Carta ◽

Public Health Workers

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Working conditions and health status of 6,317 front line public health workers across five provinces in China during the COVID-19 epidemic: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-020-10146-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jinghua Li ◽

Jingdong Xu ◽

Huan Zhou ◽

Hua You ◽

Xiaohui Wang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Mental Health ◽

Health Status ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Health Workers ◽

Front Line ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Self Rated Health ◽

Public Health Workers

ABSTRACT Background Public health workers at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and primary health care institutes (PHIs) were among the main workers who implemented prevention, control, and containment measures. However, their efforts and health status have not been well documented. We aimed to investigate the working conditions and health status of front line public health workers in China during the COVID-19 epidemic. Methods Between 18 February and 1 March 2020, we conducted an online cross-sectional survey of 2,313 CDC workers and 4,004 PHI workers in five provinces across China experiencing different scales of COVID-19 epidemic. We surveyed all participants about their work conditions, roles, burdens, perceptions, mental health, and self-rated health using a self-constructed questionnaire and standardised measurements (i.e., Patient Health Questionnaire and General Anxiety Disorder scale). To examine the independent associations between working conditions and health outcomes, we used multivariate regression models controlling for potential confounders. Results The prevalence of depression, anxiety, and poor self-rated health was 21.3, 19.0, and 9.8%, respectively, among public health workers (27.1, 20.6, and 15.0% among CDC workers and 17.5, 17.9, and 6.8% among PHI workers). The majority (71.6%) made immense efforts in both field and non-field work. Nearly 20.0% have worked all night for more than 3 days, and 45.3% had worked throughout the Chinese New Year holiday. Three risk factors and two protective factors were found to be independently associated with all three health outcomes in our final multivariate models: working all night for >3 days (multivariate odds ratio [ORm]=1.67~1.75, p<0.001), concerns about infection at work (ORm=1.46~1.89, p<0.001), perceived troubles at work (ORm=1.10~1.28, p<0.001), initiating COVID-19 prevention work after January 23 (ORm=0.78~0.82, p=0.002~0.008), and ability to persist for > 1 month at the current work intensity (ORm=0.44~0.55, p<0.001). Conclusions Chinese public health workers made immense efforts and personal sacrifices to control the COVID-19 epidemic and faced the risk of mental health problems. Efforts are needed to improve the working conditions and health status of public health workers and thus maintain their morale and effectiveness during the fight against COVID-19.

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