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Occup Med (Lond)
January 2025
Sciense, New York, NY 10013, USA.
Background: Occupational stress among healthcare workers negatively impacts job satisfaction and patient care quality, jeopardizing healthcare system sustainability. Traditional employer-driven approaches often fail to address these challenges comprehensively, leading to persistent gaps in work condition transparency and well-being.
Aims: To elucidate the working conditions of health workers and introduce a worker-centred, technology-based strategy moving beyond traditional practices and entrenched medical culture.
J Am Acad Orthop Surg
November 2024
From the Biodynamic Research Corporation, San Antonio, TX (Santos, Watson), OrthoLegal, Marina Del Rey, CA (Dixon), and Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (Whang), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Orthopaedic surgeons are frequently involved in treating patients with conditions resulting from occupational injuries or trauma from motor vehicle collisions. These circumstances may lead to disputes that are subject to litigation or medicolegal determinations by state agencies. As musculoskeletal experts, orthopaedic surgeons are frequently asked to opine on the causation and extent of injury in these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVaccine X
January 2025
Reference Center for Gender-specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità [Italian National Institute of Health], Rome, Italy.
Globally, healthcare workers (HCWs) are at greater risk of contracting Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection than the general population, due to their frequent contact with blood or body fluids. For this reason, WHO underlined the importance of HBV immunization for all HCWs. Although sex is now considered one of the key factors influencing the intensity and duration of the immune response to vaccines, sex-specific analysis of vaccine-induced anti-HBs antibodies is rarely conducted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Appl Gerontol
January 2025
Center on Aging, UConn Health, Farmington, CT, USA.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges of home- and community-based service (HCBS) providers in recruiting and retaining direct care workers (DCWs). One of the largest and fastest-growing occupations in the U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Occup Rehabil
January 2025
Healthy Working Lives Research Group, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.
Purpose: Evidence shows that patient outcomes following musculoskeletal injury have been associated with the timing of care. Despite the increasing number of injured workers presenting with low back pain (LBP) in primary care, little is known about the factors that are associated with the timing of initial healthcare provider visits. This study investigated factors that are associated with the timing of initial workers' compensation (WC)-funded care provider visits for LBP claims.
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