In Namibia,the Value Added Tax(VAT)Amendment Act 2022,which reclassified the supply of sanitary pads as zero-rated,has significant implications for adolescent girls’menstrual health and education.The policy change re...
Background Workplace violence(WPV)is an emerging problem for health workers(HWs)and a global concern in health systems.Scientific literatures infer that WPV against HWs is often attributed to workplace injuries and ab...
Background: Workers’ health condition is an important issue. It affects not only the well-being of workers but also the firms and society as a whole through medical costs and productivity losses due to absenteeism an...
This study was fully funded by Mundipharma Pharmaceutical Sdn.Bhd.(No.USIM/MUNDI/FPSK/052002/42817).
Background Absenteeism amongst pre-school children is often due to illnesses such as hand,foot,and mouth disease,acute gastroenteritis,cold and flu,which are easily spread amongst them.This is because of weak immunity...
Background: Infection transmission among them occurs easily and sometimes causes outbreaks at facilities where children live in groups. Early response is necessary for infection control measures to avoid larger cluste...
A detailed analysis of the measured absenteeism data for employees in a forensic science laboratory (FSL) is presented. About 134 employees out of 172 were used as a sample. The factors assumed to affect absenteeism i...
Objective: We present descriptive epidemiology of Mycoplasma infection using the (Nursery) School Absenteeism Surveillance System ((N)SASSy) in addition to national official sentinel surveillance for infectious diseas...
Introduction: We undertook enhanced surveillance of the 2015 Kinokuni Wakayama National Sports Games (70th National Sports Games) and the Kinokuni Wakayama Handicapped Sports Games (15th National Handicapped Sports Ga...
Objective: Analyzing the association between Metabolic Syndrome (MS) risk factors and work absenteeism due to illnesses among University Hospital employees in Salvador City, Bahia, Brazil. Methods: Cross-sectional stu...
Introduction: The Infection Control Law in Japan does not cover monitoring of human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Therefore, its epidemiology is not well known. However, rapid diagnostic testing for this virus has been reim...