Background: Healthcare professionals frequently experience burnout, characterised by emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and a diminished sense of personal success. We aimed to identify the determinants associated with burnout among healthcare professionals and its implications on healthcare professionals and healthcare delivery. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Hospital, Tamale, in the Northern Region of Gha...

Occupational Health  Public Health  Nursing  Global Health 

Objective: To investigate the improvement of speech recognition for phone call listening by using wireless audio streaming hearing aids in noisy environments. Methods: 30 subjects who were diagnosed as symmetrical, sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), no middle ear problem, good aided speech recognition and able to speak Mandarin were selected in this research. Speech recognition scores for the phone call between aided with wireless mode-on and aided with wireless mode-off in quiet and noisy envir...

Public Health  Global Health  Otorhinolaryngology 

Introduction: Endemic poverty and the consequences of multiple armed conflicts, the number of street children is constantly increasing throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the sexual violence they suffer is becoming more and more common. This presents a real public health problem in the DRC in general and in Lubumbashi in particular. This study consists of establishing the societal state of street children, more particularly by assessing the sexual violence they s...

Public Health 

A viral illness called COVID-19 can be spread from one person to another. 2019 saw the first case of the virus reported in Wuhan, China, while 2020 saw Kenya record the first COVID-19 infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. To stop the virus from spreading, it is crucial to have the proper information, attitudes, and behaviors. There has been increased research on the impact COVID-19 had on the normal lives of people, however, studies of this effect on rural communities are scarce. Hence, the study was...

Public Health 

Introduction: Among adolescents, engagement in risky sexual behavior is an important public health problem. This study aims to analyze the influence between extra-familial communication and the adoption of risky sexual behaviors among adolescents. Method: It is a descriptive-correlational and transversal type study. A survey was carried out in the Kindele health area of the Mont NGAFULA health zone. The population of our study is made up of all adolescents living in the Kindele health area of th...

Public Health 

Background: Despite WHO estimates of two million healthcare workers (HCWs) who are exposed to hepatitis B virus (HBV) yearly, uptake of the hepatitis B vaccine among HCWs in Cameroon is low. Objective: Our study aimed at testing the effectiveness of a behaviour change communication (BCC) intervention in improving vaccination uptake among HCWs in Fako Division. Methods: We carried out a clustered randomized controlled trial involving HCWs in 12 study hospitals and 12 control hospitals. Baseline ...

Public Health  Infectious Diseases 

This paper investigates the impact of behavioural risk factors on non-communicable diseases mortality in Milan, focusing on their neighbourhood variation, with the scope to provide context-specific information to guide the development of effective health promotion interventions. Using administrative healthcare data, population attributable fractions were calculated based on information provided by the Global Burden of Disease project to estimate the number and proportion of deaths attributed to ...

Public Health  Sociology  Epidemiology 

Post-COVID syndrome (PCS) is associated with symptoms that persist after curing from SARS-CoV-2 infection. According to WHO, it is a disorder that typically requires at least 2 months to manifest before being diagnosed, and occurs 3 months after the initiation of COVID-19. Fatigue, dyspnea, headaches, joints, chest pains, abnormalities of taste and smell, coughing, hair loss, sleeplessness cardiac and gastrointestinal problems are examples of persistent symptoms. A cross-sectional study is with ...

Public Health 

The Hospital Establishment Project (PEH) is subject to many criticisms and most of the objectives are not achieved. The objective of this study is to analyze the factors of adhesion of the personnel to the elaboration and implementation of the Beni Mellal EPH. Methodology: The study is transversal, descriptive, quantitative and qualitative. It was conducted from 21-04-2010 to 30-04-2010. The data was collected using a questionnaire and semi-directive interview guides. The targets were hospital s...

Public Health  Health Policy  Women’s Health 

Introduction: Nurses are professionals who fulfill a social mission of general interest, in the sector where the market cannot intervene alone and where the requirement of ethics is essential. By offering care, they contribute significantly to the national economy and are in direct contact with patients in an asymmetrical relationship that requires trust. It is the duty of the professional to honor this trust and it is up to the ordinary institution to guarantee the community the means to safegu...

Public Health