Inadequate personal protective equipment factors and odds related to acute pesticide poisoning: a meta-analysis report - Nguyen D, Tsai CSJ.
INTRODUCTION: Acute pesticide poisoning (APP) continues to affect farm workers, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The dose-response relationship between exposure and APP is well-researched, but pesticide exposure assessment in a practi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 30, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Health hazard among shrimp cultivators in india: a quantitative burden of disease study - Swain CK, Rout HS, Jakovljevic M.
BACKGROUND: The lack of focus on the health status of shrimp cultivators by previous studies while the production of shrimp has been rising over the years after the introduction of the blue revolution in India. The present study estimated the burden of dis... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Characteristics and influencing factors of post-traumatic growth: a cross-sectional study of psychiatric nurses suffering from workplace violence in Guangdong China - Wang W, Ye J, Wei Y, Yuan L, Wu J, Xia Z, Huang J, Wang H, Li Z, Guo J, Xiao A.
BACKGROUND: Workplace violence (WPV) had become an important issue that endangered the occupational safety of psychiatric nurses. A growing number of studies showed positive post-traumatic growth (PTG) resulting from coping with trauma. OBJECTIVE: ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
NHS can ’t provide quality care until staffing crisis resolved, says UNISON
Responding to findings published today (Wednesday) by the National Centre for Social Research that public satisfaction with the NHS is the lowest level on record, UNISON head of health Helga Pile said:
“The NHS cannot provide the quality care people need until the staffing crisis is addressed. Patients are suffering because of government inaction.
“Low pay and burnout are to blame for nurses, paramedics and other health workers quitting the service.
“When the minimum wage increases next week, the lowest paid NHS staff will only be earning one pence an hour above the legal minimum.
“It’s not surprising the...
Source: UNISON Health and safety news - March 27, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release nhs pay Source Type: news
Survey on the implementation of compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act in selected hospitals in Gauteng province, South Africa from 01 July to 30 September 2020 - Foromo RM, Pilusa ML, Mogotlane MS, Paulson Y.
BACKGROUND: Regardless the instituting of Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA) in South Africa, workers continue to face difficulties with the implementation of compensation for occupational injuries and diseases at workplace due... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Toxic triads: supervisor characteristics, subordinate self-esteem, and supervisor stressors in relation to perceptions of abusive supervision - Mawritz MB, Ambrose ML, Priesemuth M.
Extant research on abusive supervision recognizes that attributes of the supervisor, subordinate, and situation contribute to abuse. However, little research has examined the interplay of all three factors in predicting abusive supervision. Thus, we first ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Nurses' perceptions of the management of bullying in private hospitals in eight provinces in South Africa - Lekalakala-Mokgele E, Ajoke OO, Goosen S.
This study examined the role of various intervention strategies available for the management of workplace bullying among nurses from private hospitals in eight p... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Incivility: an antithesis of Botho/Ubuntu in professional nursing education - Hildeguard JAV, Sefotho MM.
BACKGROUND: Incivility undermines the values of Botho/Ubuntu as a philosophy rooted in the traditions expected to manifest in nursing education. Therefore, there is a need to explore what nursing students and their educators regard as uncivil and examine t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Effect of land ownership on farmers' mental health, suicidal ideation, and resilience - Mehra A, Gupta T, Behmani RK.
INTRODUCTION:
The impact of land ownership on mental health, suicidal ideation, and resilience of farmers is very big nowadays. The impact is raised when the farmer has no land and compels to farming on leasehold land. Hence, the present study was aim... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Can psychosocial risk factors mediate the association between precarious employment and mental health problems in Sweden? Results from a register-based study - M éndez-Rivero F, Matilla-Santander N, Gunn V, Wegman DH, Hernando-Rodriguez JC, Kvart S, Julià M, Kreshpaj B, Bodin T, Hemmingsson T, Muntaner C, Padrosa E, Almroth M.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the mediating effect of the psychosocial work environment on the association between precarious employment (PE) and increased risk of common mental disorders (CMD), substance use disorders and suicide attemp... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Workplace bullying in the service sector - Savapandit N, Bharathi.
Context:
Bullying is a problem that people, the world over, grapple with. It is manifest in different forms among different sections of people. Despite its prevalence, workplace bullying has not received much attention in scholarly literature in India... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Relationship between diabetes treatment status and occupational accidents - Ogasawara A, Nagata T, Odagami K, Nagata M, Adi NP, Mori K.
AIMS: To evaluate the relationship between diabetes treatment status and occupational accidents. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online questionnaire survey completed in March 2022 among workers aged 20 years or older. The q... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Occupational encounters: the interpersonal impact of bus drivers' engagement with disabled passengers - Das Neves B, Unsworth C.
This study sought to understand the interpersonal impact and occupational relevance of encounters, through exploring encounte... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Nurses' experiences of racism in mental health settings through patient and family interactions: a systematic review - Wijayaratnam A, Kozlowska O, Krayem A, Kaur S, Ayres H, Smith R, Paterson J, Moghabghab R, Henshall C.
Nursing staff engage readily with patients and associates in mental health/forensic inpatient settings. These settings are known to have instances of workplace violence directed towards staff and such violence includes racism. Racism is a form of workplace... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
Magnitude of work related injury, associated factors and its disparity across selected occupations in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis - Gietaneh W, Molla M, Alene M, Shitu D.
BACKGROUND: Globally, work related injury has been continued as a major public health problem. In Ethiopia there are few fragmented empirical studies particularly among workers of fast growing sectors and there is no a national representative study on work... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Occupational Issues Source Type: news
