Disease relevance of Health Personnel

• In the two years since reentry intervals for the acaricide propargite were lengthened, there have been no more major clusters of field worker dermatitis [1].
• Adverse reactions occurring when 1.5 million children and young adults were vaccinated with different lots of group A meningococcal and one lot of Haemophilus influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide vaccines were analyzed on the basis of records kept by local health personnel and 19,000 special questionnaires [2].

High impact information on Health Personnel

• In 1976, epidemic organophosphate insecticide poisoning due to malathion occurred among 7500 field workers in the Pakistan malaria control programme [3].
• PROBLEM: The prevalence of epilepsy is high in many areas of Africa. This condition is stigmatized, and there are limited health personnel and facilities for diagnosis and treatment [4].
• The vitamin A intake of children aged 1-3 y (n = 683) was assessed using a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire in a vitamin A intervention study in South India. Trained field workers interviewed mothers about their children's usual consumption of common sources of vitamin A and collected information on portion sizes using standard cups [5].
• RESULTS: Both the patients with non-A, non-B, non-C hepatitis (4.9%) and the healthy field workers from the Iowa DNR (5.7%) showed significantly higher prevalence of anti-HEV IgG antibodies compared to normal blood donor sera collected in 1998 (P < 0.05) [6].
• The subjects were 28 children, aged 6-14 years, with known sensitivities to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (D. pter.). Both devices were applied to each subject on two occasions, 1 week apart, by different, randomly assigned fieldworkers, using histamine, negative control, and the D. pter. allergen extract [7].

Biological context of Health Personnel

• SETTING: The State of Alabama Department of Public Health Division of Tuberculosis Control. OBJECTIVE: To standardize contact investigation protocols and implement an intervention to increase TB field worker adherence to the protocols with the goal of promoting efficiency and effectiveness in contact investigations [8].

Associations of Health Personnel with chemical compounds

• DESIGN: Matrix design with quota assignment, designed to compare the questionnaire when used by interview and self-completion, in agency and community settings, by agency staff and fieldworkers, with different injectors (age < 26 vs. 26+; male vs. female, opiate vs stimulant injectors), and in different geographical areas [9].
• Case report: profound neurobehavioral deficits in an oil field worker overcome by hydrogen sulfide [10].
• The physiologic response of 21 male agricultural field workers exposed to foliage-borne Guthion residues was monitored during routine peach-thinning operations in a northern California orchard [11].
• An intermittent course of metrifonate may be administered by minimally trained health personnel [12].
• Exposure estimates for field workers and harvesters relied on measured dislodgeable foliar residues of mevinphos and transfer factors generated from studies of other active ingredients [13].

Gene context of Health Personnel

• Because MRSA is transmitted primarily on the hands of healthcare workers, greater emphasis should be given to improving hand hygiene practices among health personnel [14].
• Health personnel terrorized in El Salvador [15].
• During the first two months there is scanty but frequent spotting which, like the high incidence of oligo- and/or amenorrhea, requires counselling of health personnel and women using LNG-IUDs [16].
• Field workers visited households at least once a week from April to December 2003 to promote use of the interventions and to collect data on diarrhoea [17].
• Health personnel are needed to service those health systems which are relevant to the needs of HFA/PHC, and hence whose education should be relevant to this major goal [18].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Health Personnel

• The operation of The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics, a biweekly newsletter on drug evaluations for physicians and other health personnel, is described [19].
• Treatment consisted of 3.5 mg/kg once daily oral administration of levamisole for 10 successive days, which was given to the subjects in their school by health personnel [20].

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