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Front Public Health
January 2025
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Background: Despite increased insurance coverage since 2010, racial and ethnic minorities in the United States still receive less medical care than White counterparts. The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing's Center for Community Programs, Innovation, and Scholarship (COMPASS Center) provides free wellness services, aiming to address healthcare disparities in the neighborhoods.
Objective: To delineate the types and cost of wellness services provided by the COMPASS Center.
Med Pr
November 2024
Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey (Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine).
Background: Cleaning workers face many workplace risk factors and may experience many health problems. In this context, this study aimed to evaluate the musculoskeletal disorders, the health status of hospital cleaning workers, and the working conditions and risk factors affecting the workplace environment.
Material And Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a university hospital of Turkey.
Niger J Clin Pract
September 2024
Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria.
Background: A chest radiograph is the most commonly requested and performed imaging for diagnosis and screening including medical examination.
Aim: The study aimed to determine the prevalence and pattern of incidentalomas in radiographs of cases presenting for pre-employment medical examination.
Methods: This was a retrospective review of chest radiographs conducted for patients presenting for pre-employment medical examination from January to December 2022.
Med Pr
November 2024
Uniwersytet Medyczny w Białymstoku / Medical University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland (Klinika Chorób Zakaźnych i Hepatologii / Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology).
The set up of new healthcare models by taking into account diagnosis and health education of the viral infection, aims to achieve the goals of the World Health Organization Global Health Sector Strategy on viral diseases for 2022-2030. In comparison to Europe, Poland is ranked among countries with an moderate prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus (HBV and HCV), also human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). An additional challenge is the changing epidemiological situation due to the impact of immigrants, resulting mainly from the war in Ukraine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
July 2024
Medical Department, Kumtor Gold Company, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Introduction: Mining at high altitude exposes workers to hypoxic environment and cold climate in addition to conventional hazards in mining, but very little is known on how to define fitness to work in prospective candidates with pre-existing conditions. The aim of the current study was to define the incidence of cardiovascular diseases leading to unfitness to work as well as their predictors in a prospective observation.
Methods: A total of 569 prospective employees (median age 34 (interquartile range (IQR) 28;40) years, 95% men 85% mid-altitude residents) for a high-altitude gold mine in Kyrgyzstan operating at 3800-4500 meters above sea level were screened at pre-employment in 2009-2012 and followed by January 2022.
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