The Epidemic of Health Care Worker Injury: An Epidemiology

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William Charney, Guy Fragala
CRC Press, Dec 9, 1998 - Technology & Engineering - 248 pages
Traditionally, health care worker injury exposure data is analyzed one category at a time, which tends to isolate the researcher from a more global perspective of an industry-wide analysis. The Epidemic of Health Care Worker Injury: An Epidemiology provides an industry-wide analysis that facilitates a wide-angle view of the dangers of working in health care, by focusing on the major categories of health care worker injury:
  • needlesticks, the most prevalent risk
  • back injury, the most expensive risk
  • violence and assault-health care workers account for more than half of all assaulted service workers
  • infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis C
  • latex allergy, which now affects almost 10% of health-care workers
  • managed care and its profound effect on the injury rates through downsizing, deskilling, and increased acuity
  • injuries to different populations of health care workers
  • home health care injury rates
  • long-term care injuries, which have doubled in the last decade
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    Contents

    Health Hazards
    		12
    EnvironmentalMechanical Agents
    		19
    References
    		25
    Chapter 3
    		28
    INTRODUCTION
    		35
    Chapter 4
    		47
    It has become apparent that health care workers are exposed to a variety of occu
    		117
    Chapter 6
    		137
    Chapter
    		155
    How Nursing Home Work Is Becoming
    		179
    Chapter 10
    		201
    Appendix 1
    		215
    Index
    		229
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    TitleThe Epidemic of Health Care Worker Injury: An Epidemiology
    EditorsWilliam Charney, Guy Fragala
    Editionillustrated
    PublisherCRC Press, 1998
    ISBN0849333822, 9780849333828
    Length248 pages
    Subjects ›  › 

    Medical / Epidemiology
    Science / Environmental Science
    Technology & Engineering / Civil / General
    Technology & Engineering / Engineering (General)
    Technology & Engineering / Industrial Health & Safety
      
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