Reports that violence is targeted as a world safety-and-health issue by the World Health Organization. Death of people caused by accidental or intentional violence; Effect on the very young or old, women, workers in certain industries and developing countries....
Violence to health care professionals: a health and safety perspective Violence, the subject of this book, is a topic that has received considerable attention from a wide variety of disciplines. In the context of health care the focus has been on the understanding, description and treatment of ...
Violence prevention is now not just the concern of the frontline healthcare team, but also of architects, service managers, psychologists, governments, health and safety managers, human resources managers, and members of the emergency services. This fully revised and updated new edition will equip ...
In addition, when a child is injured due to possible physical abuse, evaluation of other children in the home is good practice to ensure their well-being and safety. The authors point to other potential roles health care professionals can play to help address violence experienced by children ...
Health care staff are exposed to violence 16 times more often than in the other em- ployments. Generally, the people who resort to violence are males under 30 years old ,who have a low socioeconomic level, keep weapons legally or il- legally, have problems with authority and have legal ...
Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Researching, Documenting, and Monitoring Sexual Violence in Emergencies. http://www.who.int/gender/documents/OMS_Ethics&Safety10Aug07.pdf. Accessed July 18, 2010 37. Lumley T. Survey Analysis in R. http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/survey. 2008. ...
Physical health symptoms were strongly associated with: severe violence; injuries; engagement in long-haul fishing; immigration detention or symptoms of mental health disorders. Survivors were exposed to multiple work hazards and were perceived as disposable when disabled by illness or injuries. Employers...
increase in occupational injuries and diseases among hospitality employees, safety advocated are proposing proper training and safety procedures that can teach housekeeping staff how to prevent muscle drain to the body, and provide proper preventative measures and procedures to prevent violence in the ...
Besides the personal cost to victims for ordinary workplace violence, the cost structure of health care workplace violence includes social costs like externality-related public safety cost, defensive medicine cost, and specific factors cost [30]. The poor working environment has been cited as one ...
Efforts to make violence risk assessment more scientifically based will ultimately improve our ability to evaluate risk of violence more accurately so we can take steps to manage that risk effectively and humanely, and direct the task of promoting safety without unwarranted stigmatization of people ...