scholarly journals The Study of the Awareness of Healthcare Workers on Organizational Aspects of Vaccination

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateryna Bulavinova ◽  
Oryna Detsyk ◽  
Zoya Tsikhon
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Health Care Managers ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
Care Managers

Aim. To analyze the awareness of healthcare workers on the organization of vaccination. Materials and Methods. In 2018 – 2019 sociological survey was conducted among 1384 healthcare workers from 4 Ukrainian regions: 353 primary care physicians, 233 specialized medical care doctors, 88 healthcare managers, 700 nurses, and 10 others. Results. Gaps in the knowledge and beliefs of health professionals associated with the organization of vaccination were founded: less than half of the surveyed health workers understand that vaccination is carried out with any certified vaccine, regardless of the country of origin; a significant part of respondents tend to prescribe drugs not recommended by international guidelines (53.6%), antihistamines (15.9%) and anti-inflammatory (8.0%) drugs before vaccination; do not know about the possibility of doing several vaccinations in one visit (47.3%) and that the cold chain breach affects the effectiveness of the vaccine (52.4%). It was found that the most knowledgeable about the organization of immunoprophylaxis of the population are the health care managers and medical personnel who have passed special training on vaccination vs the least informed specialized medical care doctors. Conclusions. It is necessary to develop a set of scientifically based measures to improve the awareness of health professionals about the organization of vaccination in order to improve the coverage of the population with immunoprophylaxis.

scholarly journals Methodological justification of preparing medical workers of medical and preventive treatment institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan for providing medical care in the event of occurrence of centers of mass sanitary losses

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-329
Author(s):  
N N Apechkin ◽  
A N Galiullin ◽  
E G Nureyeva
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Preventive Treatment ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Nursing Personnel ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Centers Of Mass

Aim. To optimize the training of medical personnel for providing emergency medical care to the general public. Methods. Socio-hygienic, statistical and experimental. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted among 450 medical doctors and 136 members of the nursing personnel in order to determine the subjective level of knowledge in the field of organizing medical evacuation procedures in the centers of mass sanitary losses. Conducted was an initial testing of 108 doctors and 106 members of the nursing personnel in order to objectively assess their level of knowledge followed by a final post-training test. A new technology for training health professionals has been developed and recommended for inclusion into the program of medical postgraduate education. Results. If the doctors prior to training had the level of preparedness to provide first medical care in centers of sanitary losses of 49.71%, then after training, this figure increased to 75.38% (p 0.001). Among the nursing staff the level of preparedness prior to training did not exceed 51.88% of the cases, while after the training it reached 74.28% (p 0.001). Thus, after training according to the proposed methodology the level of knowledge in organizing medical care to the affected casualties in centers of sanitary losses at the pre-hospital stage increased by 47.89% (p 0.001 for t=12.19). The survey of health professionals showed that 97.2% of health workers gave a positive evaluation of our proposed method of training. Conclusion. The proposed technology makes it possible to increase the level of training of medical personnel in organizing and delivering health care.

scholarly journals On the Concept of Criminological Ratios of Unintentional Crime in Medical Assistance Rendering

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Polina G. Gabay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Personal Relations

Purpose. To study the indices of carelessness in the provision of medical care from a criminological standpoint. Methodology: it includes the following methods: historical and legal, comparative legal, analysis and forecasting. Conclusions. 1. Elements of everyday carelessness in health care can be distinguished only conditionally and only in the sphere of relations that are within the framework of personal relations between medical personnel and patients. 2. The structure of health crime includes three groups of crimes: professional crimes of health workers; malfeasance of employees of the studied area; crimes, the responsibility for which arises for these subjects along with other persons. Scientific and practical significance. The conclusions presented in the article are aimed at increasing the effectiveness of counteracting careless criminality in the healthcare sector in the provision of medical care.

Incidence of COVID-19 in outpatient healthcare workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 540-545
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Suslin ◽  
Maiia L. Sirotko ◽  
Marina N. Bochkareva ◽  
Sergey A. Babanov
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Outpatient Basis ◽  
Medical Organization ◽  
Occupational Infection ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Coronavirus Infection

Currently, work in any medical organization carries a risk of coronavirus infection, and, first of all, this applies to medical organizations dealing with the treatment of patients infected with coronavirus. Medical workers are a group at increased risk of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the provision of medical care in modern conditions, which determines their incidence of COVID-19 [1-3]. The aim of the study is to explore the prevalence of cases of COVID-19 infection in medical workers providing medical care on an outpatient basis. Materials and methods. The analysis of the incidence of COVID-19 medical workers in one of the large medical organizations of the Samara region during the period of the pandemic was carried out. The medical staff of the medical organization includes 207 doctors. There are 11 subdivisions in the structure of the medical and prophylactic institution. Research methods: content analysis of the modern regulatory framework (2020-2021), statistical, expert. For the period from May 2020 to March 2021 71 cases of infection of medical workers on an outpatient basis with SARS-CoV-2 were identified, of which 32 doctors (45%) and 39 people (55%) nurses. Based on the results of the expert assessment, the insurance nature of the infection case was established in 50 people (70%). Among the medical and nursing categories of medical workers, the largest number of cases was made by doctors and nurses of primary contact - specialists of the district service: general practitioners (40%), pediatricians (32%), doctors - obstetricians-gynecologists (12%), nurses adults (76%) and children (20%) polyclinic departments. A third of health workers received inpatient treatment for severe COVID-19, an average of 60 days. Conclusion. Medical workers are a risk group of COVID-19 who need support measures, since the possibility of occupational infection has been sufficiently proven, and the risk probably depends on the work performed and the conditions of direct contact of medical personnel, which requires further study in the current persisting epidemic conditions.

scholarly journals Mask-associated de novo headache in healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose M Ramirez-Moreno ◽  
David Ceberino ◽  
Alberto Gonzalez ◽  
Belen Rebollo ◽  
Pablo Macias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to changes in the development of health care activities by health professionals. We analysed whether there is an association between the appearance of de novo headache according to the type of mask used, the related factors, as well as the impact of the headache on health professionals. Method: cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Extremadura, Spain. We administered an online questionnaire to healthcare workers during the period of maximum incidence of COVID-19 in our setting. Results: n=306, 244 women (79.7%), with an average age of 43 years (range 23-65). Of the total, 129 (42.2%) were physicians, 112 (36.6%) nurses and 65 (21.2%) other health workers. 208 (79.7%) used surgical masks and 53 (20.3%) used filtering masks. Of all those surveyed, 158 (51.6%) presented de novo headache. The occurrence of headache was independently associated with the use of a filtering mask, OR 2.14 (IC95% 1.07-4.32), being a nurse OR 2.09 (IC95% 1.18-3.72) or another health worker OR 6.94 (IC95% 3.01-16.04) or having a history of asthma OR 0.29 (IC95% 0.09-0.89). Depending on the type of mask used there were differences in headache intensity. And the impact of headache in the subjects who used a filtering mask was worse in the all aspects evaluated. Conclusions: The appearance of de novo headache is associated with the use of filtering masks and is more frequent in certain health care workers, causing a greater occupational, family, personal and social impact.

scholarly journals An IoT Based Health Monitoring System to Tackle COVID-19 in a Contagious Ward of Hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Sk. Shariful Alam* ◽  
◽  
Md. Shakibul Islam ◽  
Md. Mustahsin Farhan Chowdhury ◽  
Tanim Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health Monitoring System ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Isolation Ward ◽  
Specific Health ◽  
Health Parameters

l: l: Email:l: Email:l: Regarding the highly contiguous novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it is unsafe for health professionals, being involved in a hospital isolation ward. The healthcare workers, stationed in a contagious ward provide relentless monitoring of specific health parameters of those patients. The rate of contagion proportionately depends on the time spent by the health workers in an isolation ward. This challenging task is fairly manageable by employing promising Internet-of-Things (IoT) based autonomous robots (i.e. smart bots) thus reducing the hazards of contamination to health workers. In this research paper, we introduce a smart bot that can periodically measure the health parameters of COVID-19 patients, for instance, body temperature, oxygen saturation levels, blood pressure, respiration rate, heart rate, blood glucose level, etc. The proposed smart bot will transfer from one patient to another in a structured pattern and autonomously collect, forward, store the data of the patients for further analysis. The goal of the work is to involve a significantly inferior number of health workers in contagious wards to control contagion, thus creating stress-free environs for health workers. Moreover, smart bots will offer health professionals to pay attention to non-COVID-19 patients and make things easier for regular health check-ups of individuals in need.

Determination of ways of improving the system of medical provision of school-age children using swot-analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
T. V. Peresypkina ◽  
◽  
O. O. Holubnicha ◽  
A. M. Peresypkina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
School Health ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Medical Work

The search for ways to effectively provide medical care to the child population is an urgent issue of our time. With the participation of experts, a SWOT analysis of the organization of medical support for schoolchildren in modern conditions was carried out. The strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats of medical support for schoolchildren are identified, which contributes to the identification of promising directions for improving medical care for children in the conditions of general educational institutions. So, in the absence of an alternative system of medical support for schoolchildren, existing experience of medical personnel and institutions that have the practice of training school health workers, it is advisable to clearly build the vertical of the school health system, consolidate at the legislative level competencies of medical personnel and credentials, an algorithm for improving their skills in health matters and health-saved programs. The nearest threat is the turnover of medical personnel from educational institutions through a decrease in the attractiveness of medical work in schools, which will help to limit the preventive capabilities of the health care system for children in educational institutions. The directions determined by the results of the SWOT analysis will make it possible to make informed management decisions, to coordinate activities in a timely manner and to use the available opportunities most effectively in order to improve the system of medical support for children in the conditions of general secondary education.

scholarly journals Medical Encounters During the United States Army Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course

2019 ◽  
Vol 184 (7-8) ◽  
pp. e337-e343
Author(s):  
Joseph J Knapik ◽  
Emily K Farina ◽  
Christian B Ramirez ◽  
Stefan M Pasiakos ◽  
James P McClung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Special Forces

Abstract Introduction The Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) is an extremely physically and mentally demanding 19- to 20-day course designed to determine whether Soldiers are qualified to enter the Special Forces Qualification Course. As a first step to understand medical problems during SFAS, this study examined injuries, illnesses, and activities associated with injuries during the course. Materials and Methods Medical events during the SFAS course were compiled from Sick Call Trackers (a log of medical encounters maintained by medical personnel in the field) and Chronology of Medical Care (Standard Form 600). Descriptive statistics were calculated for each injury and illness and injuries were compiled by the activities performed when the injuries occurred. Results Of the 800 Soldiers who volunteered for the study, 38% (n = 307/800) and 12% (n = 97/800) experienced one or more injuries and/or illnesses, respectively. The most common injuries were blisters and abrasions/lacerations with incidences of 20% (n = 158/800) and 13% (104/800), respectively. The most common illnesses were respiratory infections, other infections, contact dermatitis, and allergies with incidences of 7% (n = 57/800), 2% (n = 14/800), 2% (n = 14/800), and 2% (n = 13/800), respectively. Among all injuries recorded (n = 573), the most common were blisters (46%), abrasions/lacerations (24%), pain (not otherwise specified) (19%), tendonitis (3%), and sprains (3%). Among all illnesses recorded (n = 133), the most common were respiratory infections (56%), allergies (11%), contact dermatitis (11%), and other infections (11%). Most injuries were experienced during land navigation (44%), team events (20%), and foot marching (11%), running (6%), and the obstacle course (5%), but when the estimated time involved for each event was considered, activities with the highest injury rates were the obstacle course (65 injuries/hr), running (27 injuries/hr), the Combat Readiness Assessment (activity involving combat-related tasks) (20 injuries/hr), and foot marching (16 injuries/hr). Conclusion The major limitations of this investigation were: 1) the low specificity with regard to many of the diagnoses/complaints; and 2) the fact that the medical problems reported here are only those seen by medical care providers and are likely an underestimate of the total morbidity in the SFAS course. Soldiers often self-treat and some may be reluctant to see medical personnel because of how it might affect their rating in the course. Nonetheless, this investigation alerts medical personnel to the injuries and illnesses to expect, and public health workers and leadership with activities to target for injury prevention measures during SFAS.

scholarly journals Compulsory Vaccination for Healthcare Workers in Italy for the Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 966
Author(s):  
Paola Frati ◽  
Raffaele La Russa ◽  
Nicola Di Fazio ◽  
Zoe Del Fante ◽  
Giuseppe Delogu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Private Life ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Compulsory Vaccination ◽  
The Individual

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) judgement no. 116(2021) of 8 April 2021 establishes the principle of mandatory vaccination, indicating the criteria that national legislation must comply with, following the principle of non-interference in the private life of the individual. Vaccination for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection appears to be an essential requirement for providing healthcare assistance. The European experience with compulsory vaccinations, offers a composite panorama, as the strategy of some European countries is to make vaccinations compulsory, including financial penalties for non-compliance. As in other countries, there is a clear need for Italy to impose compulsory vaccination for healthcare workers, in response to a pressing social need to protect individual and public health, and above all as a defense for vulnerable subjects or patients, for whom health workers have a specific position of guarantee and trust. The Italian Republic provided for mandatory vaccinations for health professionals by Decree-Law of 1 April 2021 no. 44, to guarantee public health and adequate safety conditions. As stated by ECHR, the Italian State, despite having initially opted for recommendation as regards to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, had to adopt the mandatory system to achieve the highest possible degree of vaccination coverage among health professionals to guarantee the safety of treatments and protection of patients’ health. We present the Italian situation on vaccine hesitation in healthcare workers, with updated epidemiological data as well as the doctrinaire, social, and political debate that is raging in Italy and Europe.

scholarly journals An IoT Based Health Monitoring System to Tackle COVID-19 in a Contagious Ward of Hospital

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Sk. Shariful Alam ◽  
◽  
Md. Shakibul Islam ◽  
Md. Mustahsin Farhan Chowdhury ◽  
Tanim Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health Monitoring System ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Isolation Ward ◽  
Specific Health ◽  
Health Parameters

Regarding the highly contiguous novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it is unsafe for health professionals, being involved in a hospital isolation ward. The healthcare workers, stationed in a contagious ward provide relentless monitoring of specific health parameters of those patients. The rate of contagion proportionately depends on the time spent by the health workers in an isolation ward. This challenging task is fairly manageable by employing promising Internet-of-Things (IoT) based autonomous robots (i.e. smart bots) thus reducing the hazards of contamination to health workers. In this research paper, we introduce a smart bot that can periodically measure the health parameters of COVID-19 patients, for instance, body temperature, oxygen saturation levels, blood pressure, respiration rate, heart rate, blood glucose level, etc. The proposed smart bot will transfer from one patient to another in a structured pattern and autonomously collect, forward, store the data of the patients for further analysis. The goal of the work is to involve a significantly inferior number of health workers in contagious wards to control contagion, thus creating stress-free environs for health workers. Moreover, smart bots will offer health professionals to pay attention to non-COVID-19 patients and make things easier for regular health check-ups of individuals in need.

scholarly journals THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN MOROCCO

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (09) ◽  
pp. 678-689
Author(s):  
I. Hanine ◽  
◽  
I. Hmamouchi ◽  
S. Belbachir ◽  
M. Chtibi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Severity Index ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
World Health ◽  
Frontline Healthcare Workers ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organization declared the infection of the virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-COV-2 a pandemic. The virus, which was first discovered in China in Wuhan province in December 2019, has affected more than 100 million people and more than two million deaths in more than 200 countries.Along with other epidemics and pandemics, the existence of this virus has led to psychiatric disorders in people in or without direct contact with the disease, especially frontline healthcare workers. Objective: To assess the impact of the virus on medical personnel working in Morocco, in particular stress, depression and sleep disorders. Methodology: To explore this topic, we used an anonymity questionnaire based on, in addition to individual status and conditions, scales assessing stress, depression and sleep.The questionnaire was sent via social networks to health personnel working in Morocco in the various hospitals and departments treating patients infected with this virus.The CES-D (Center of Epidemiological Studies - Depression) scales for depression, the PSS-10 (Cohens Perceived Stress Scale) for perceived stress and ISI (C. Morins Insomnia Severity Index) for disorders of sleep, were chosen given their frequent use in a number of studies on the same topic. Results: After sorting our responsesrigorously, we were able to collect 376 responses, of which 53.5% were women, with an average age of 28.45 years, 23.9% were nurses, 14.4% general practitioners, 19, 7% of internal doctors 37.2% of residents or specialists and 4.8% occupied other functions such as medical transport. 66% of our candidates were at the level of the different university hospital centers of Morocco.Our candidates respectively occupied 39.1% 28.2% 29% and 25.8% triage positions, observation of suspected cases, the COVID sector and resuscitation.Regarding our results, it was observed that 71% of our participants presented moderate stress, 44.9% had a risk of developing depression and 53.7 had insomnia of varying severity.The female sex, the lack of medical, surgical and psychiatric history influence the occurrence of the three abnormalities studied, it should also be noted that these last three maintain a relationship of influences between them. Conclusion: The exploration of stress, depression and insomnia revealed an impact of the state of health on the daily life of front-line health workers in Morocco.

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