Blog: In the campaign for equal pay, UNISON stands firmly on the frontline
The pursuit of equal pay is part of UNISON’s daily battle against deeply entrenched biases and systemic inequalities. We’re driven by our commitment to break free of stereotypes that undervalue workers. And we are unrivalled in our successes. You only have to look at the Glasgow equal pay victory to understand our strength. We’ve won the most equal pay cases, we’ve won the most money for members, and we don’t take a cut from the payouts. It’s a fundamental issue of fairness that every worker deserves equal pay for work of equal value. However, despite years of progress, many workers – and particularl...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - September 19, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Christina McAnea Tags: General Secretary's blog Christina McAnea equal pay Source Type: news

Transitioning From Academic Writing to the Narrative
(MedPage Today) -- Many doctors feel that writing is a struggle. "They delay. They feel inadequate -- even inauthentic," wrote psychiatrists Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA, and John Coverdale, MD, MEd, who are editor-in-chief and associate editor...
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - September 19, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

From Physician to Politician
(MedPage Today) -- In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, and Brian H. Williams, MD, surgeon and former congressional health policy advisor, discuss their experiences with gun violence while working in the emergency...
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - September 19, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Shortage of scabies treatments 'significant threat to public health'
Widespread shortages of scabies treatments across the UK are a 'major public health concern', experts have warned.
Source: GP Online News - September 19, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news

Comparing post-traumatic stress severity in professional and volunteer Australian firefighters - Counson I, Sanatkar S, Knight A, Lawrence D, Harvey SB.
BACKGROUND: While extensive research has highlighted increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in firefighters, previous research has yielded mixed results regarding the role of work status (professional versus volunteer) in the development ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Concordance of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms assessed via retrospective report versus experience sampling methods in community women experiencing intimate partner violence - Kiefer R, Schick MR, Newberger NG, Ferguson JJ, Raudales AM, Sullivan TP, Weiss NH.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most prominent negative health consequences that women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) may develop. However, research on PTSD among women experiencing IPV has largely relied on retrospective r...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Conflict and crime. Restorative justice in Italy - Palermo G.
The article presents a socio-legal analysis of the Legislative Decree (Lgs.D.) of 10 October 2022, n.150, implementing the law of 27 September 2021, n.134 (so-called "Cartabia reform"), which provides for the introduction in Italy of a comprehensive framew...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Corrigendum to "Evaluation of injury threshold from the number of rib fracture for predicting pulmonary injuries in blunt chest trauma" Heliyon 9 (4), (April 2023) Article e15278 - Fukushima K, Kambe M, Aramaki Y, Ichikawa Y, Isshiki Y, Nakajima J, Sawada Y, Oshima K.
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15278.]. In the original published version of this article, the authors provided the results of the abstract incorrectly and the result of the abstract alone has been updated. The correct version o...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Disparities in misclassification of race and ethnicity in electronic medical records among patients with traumatic injury - Conrick KM, Mills B, Schreuder AB, Wardak W, Vil CS, Dotolo D, Bulger EM, Arbabi S, Vavilala MS, Moore M, Rowhani-Rahbar A.
Systems-level barriers to self-reporting of race and ethnicity reduce the integrity of data entered into the medical record and trauma registry among patients with injuries, limiting research assessing the burden of racial disparities. We sought to charact...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Documentation of wounds in emergency departments through a forensic lens - Filmalter CJ, Botha T, Heyns T.
BACKGROUND: Nurses document wounds to direct and evaluate the care. People admitted to emergency departments with wounds should be regarded as potential forensic patients, requiring meticulous documentation for evidence purposes. AIM: To explore th...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

The prevalence and profile of speeding in vehicle crashes using event data recorders - Doecke SD, Ponte G, Elsegood M.
27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000093.pdf Travelling at a speed above the sp...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Clinico-demographic profile and factors affecting duration of hospital stay among burn patients in an emergency department of a tertiary care center, south India: a hospital-based cross-sectional study - Mahalingam S, Rajendran G, Rajaa S, Aazmi A, Maroju N, Purushothaman S, Gara M, Karn S, Rajendran A, Balassoundaram V.
Background Burns continue to be a serious public health problem in India. It persists as an endemic disease in spite of implementing various preventive measures at the individual and community levels. Etiology and factors influencing burns are varied. Ther...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

The coping strategies of intimate partner violence survivors - Damra JK, Abujilban S.
This study investigates the prevalence of coping strategies (CSs) among women with intimate partner violence (IPV) experience in Jordan and the relationships between types of IPV, demographic factors, and CSs (problem-focused strategies [PFS], emotion-f...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

A process to qualify a dummy model for the use in a virtual testing application - Putzer M, Adamou FEN, Zhu F, Walz M, Galazka J.
27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enhanced and Equitable Vehicle Safety for All: Toward the Next 50 Years https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/27/27ESV-000220.pdf Finite element models of crash tes...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Cycling in urban environments: quantitative text analysis - Ant ón-González L, Pans M, Devís-Devís J, Gonzalez LM.
Introduction Urban transport has been dealing with traffic congestion, motorised transportation, and the huge amount of urban pollution, becoming a public health problem. Recently, cycling in urban environments has been proposed to address these problems....
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news

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