Sentences with phrase «recommended by health workers»

Changes can then be made that go undetected for long periods of time as the information continues to be distributed or recommended by health workers.

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In addition, WHO and UNICEF now recommend home visits by a skilled health worker during a baby's first week of life to improve newborn survival.

Kenneley's American Journal of Nursing article, «Clostridium difficile Infection Is on the Rise,» focuses on evidence - based steps recommended by the CDC that nurses and other health care workers, including those who prepare and deliver food, clean facilities or make deliveries, can take to confine the bacteria in hospitals and other settings where someone shows symptoms of the infection.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The Task Force concluded animals are well served by Ontario's animal shelters, but recommended enhancements in the areas of public health, the operation of shelters and animal - worker health and safety.

In June, injured workers demonstrated in cities across Ontario, and the WSIB received an open letter signed by prominent Ontarians and organizations, calling for the WSIB to provide the health care that treating doctors recommend.

Joint ONIWG / OFL report details problems with WSIB practices identified by a growing number of health professionals who see the Board ignoring their opinions on recommended treatment for their patients — with adverse emotional and financial consequences (as illustrated by accounts of injured workers» experiences).

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about improving outcomes for children affected by divorce.