An Occupational Health Services Initiative at a Women’s Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Personal Author:
  Khalid G ; Kitt MM ; McCarthy BJ ; Rahimi S
• Description:
  This article describes the process of developing targeted occupational health services for the health care workers in a women's hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, as part of a larger project to establish an obstetrics and gynecology residency training program at the facility. The goal was to create a feasible and sustainable program to: (1) address basic health care needs impacting the ability of these Afghan health care workers to optimize learning opportunities; (2) decrease absenteeism due to illness; (3) decrease the likelihood of infectious disease transmission among staff, from staff to patients, and from patients to staff; (4) foster belief that a healthy and safe working environment is a basic right; (5) begin to collect preliminary health status indicators on health care workers in this employee population; and (6) serve as an adaptable program to expand to other Afghan health care workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Delivery Of Health Care Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Disease-control Disease-prevention Diseases Health-care Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Medical-care Medical-facilities Medical-personnel Occupational-diseases Occupational-health Occupational-health-services Training Work-environment Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  0033-3549
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  121
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031128
• Citation:
  Public Health Rep 2006 Nov-Dec; 121(6):650-657
• Contact Point Address:
  Capt. Margaret M. Kitt, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, Mailstop K-20, 2900 Woodcock Blvd., Chamblee, GA 30341
• Email:
  ajy8@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Public Health Reports
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:251771276633ddd68e3e28f35e5e6ea552db8ef9bdc3afad56e85593958158d3bd1f070921828ce0c8ba881c0090b44ecb874c780b839ff19d3803c2d3a6122a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191477/cdc_191477_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 87.38 KB ]