Protecting Home Health Care Workers: A Challenge to Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning

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• Personal Author:
  Baron, Sherry L. ; Gershon R ; Lipscomb, Jane A. ; McPhaul K ; Phillips S
• Description:
  The home health care sector is a critical element in a pandemic influenza emergency response. Roughly 85% of the 1.5 million workers delivering in-home care to 7.6 million clients are low-wage paraprofessionals, mostly women, and disproportionately members of racial and ethnic minorities. Home health care workers' ability and willingness to respond during a pandemic depends on appropriate communication, training, and adequate protections, including influenza vaccination and respiratory protection. Preparedness planning should also include support for child care and transportation and help home health care workers protect their income and access to health care. We summarize findings from a national stakeholder meeting, which highlighted the need to integrate home health care employers, workers, community advocates, and labor unions into the planning process. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Biological Factors Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Health Personnel Immune System Irritants Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Race Factors Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Staff Development Viral Diseases Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Biohazards Biological-effects Biological-factors Biological-monitoring Biostatistics Exposure-assessment Exposure-levels Exposure-methods Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-hazards Health-protection Immune-system Immunology Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Personal-protection Protective-measures Racial-factors Respiratory-equipment Respiratory-infections Respiratory-irritants Risk-analysis Risk-factors Surveillance-programs Training Vaccines Viral-diseases Viral-infections Work-analysis Work-areas Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices Worker-health Worker-motivation Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  0090-0036
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  99
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035971
• Citation:
  Am J Public Health 2009 Oct; 99(S2):S301-S307
• Contact Point Address:
  Sherry Baron, MD, MPH, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS R17, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  SBaron@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Public Health
• Supplement:
  S2
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187614/cdc_187614_DS1.pdf
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