Publications by authors named "Matt Lozier"
Article Synopsis
- - WASH infrastructure and practices, particularly hand hygiene, are essential for preventing the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, with guidance tailored to COVID-19 built upon existing WASH standards.
- - Collaborating with local organizations, tools were created to assess WASH conditions and practices, leading to interventions aimed at mitigating COVID-19 in healthcare and community settings within low- and middle-income countries.
- - Observations showed gaps in access to hand hygiene materials despite improved water supply, and adherence to hand hygiene was significantly better after patient contact, highlighting the need for better management of handwashing stations and enforcement of global WASH standards in communal spaces.
Objective: To estimate quality-of-life (QoL), primary care, health insurance, prevention behaviors, absenteeism, and presenteeism in a statewide sample of the unemployed, self-employed, and organizationally employed.
Methods: A statewide survey of 1602 Iowans included items from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention QoL and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey prevention behavior questionnaires used to assess employee well-being; their indicator results are related to World Health Organization's Health and Work Performance Questionnaire-derived absenteeism and presenteeism scores.
Results: The unemployed exhibited poorer QoL and prevention behaviors; the self-employed exhibited many better QoL scores due largely to better prevention behaviors than those employed by organizations.