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Browsing Health Sciences by Author "Yassi, Annalee"
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Wilcox, Elizabeth S.; Chimedza, Ida Tsitsi; Mabhele, Simphiwe; Romao, Paulo; Spiegel, Jerry M.; Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Yassi, Annalee (MDPI Publishing, 2020-06-23)Ways to address the increasing global health workforce shortage include improving the occupational health and safety of health workers, particularly those in high-risk, low-resource settings. The World Health Organization ...
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Harrigan, Sean P.; Tsang, Vivian W.L.; Yassi, Annalee; Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Spiegel, Jerry M. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2022-10)OBJECTIVES : To assess the extent to which protection of healthcare workers (HCWs) as COVID-19 emerged was associated with economic inequality among and within countries. DESIGN : Cross-sectional analysis of associations ...
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Okpani, Arnold Ikedichi; Barker, Stephen; Lockhart, Karen; Grant, Jennifer; Delgado-Ron, Jorge Andres; Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Naicker, Nisha; Ehrlich, Rodney; Yassi, Annalee (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2022-09)OBJECTIVE : The aims of this study were to investigate occupational and non–work-related risk factors of coronavirus disease 2019 among health care workers (HCWs) in Vancouver Coastal Health, British Columbia, Canada, and ...
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O’Hara, Lyndsay M.; Yassi, Annalee; Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Malotle, Molebogeng; Bryce, Elizabeth A.; Barker, Stephen J.; Darwin, Lincoln; FitzGerald, J. Mark (BioMed Central, 2017-08-07)BACKGROUND : Health workers (HWs) in resource-limited settings are at high-risk of exposure to tuberculosis (TB) at work. The aim of this study was to estimate the rate of TB disease among HWs in the Free State Province ...
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Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Voyi, K.V.V. (Kuku); Mlangeni, Nosimilo; Moodley, Saiendhra Vasudevan; Ramodike, Jonathan; Claassen, Nico; Wilcox, Elizabeth; Thunzi, Nkululeko; Yassi, Annalee; Spiegel, Jerry; Malotle, Molebogeng (BioMed Central, 2021-10-11)BACKGROUND : Health workers, in short supply in many low-and-middle-income countries, are at increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This study aimed to assess how South Africa, prepared to protect its health workers ...
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Matuka, Onnicah; Singh, Tanusha, S.; Bryce, Elizabeth; Yassi, Annalee; Kgasha, Olga; Zungu, Laszchevon Muzimkhulu; Kyaw, Khin; Malotle, Molebogeng; Renton, Kevin; O’Hara, Lyndsay (Elsevier, 2015-03)BACKGROUND : Airborne transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) remains an occupational health hazard particularly in crowded and resource limited healthcare settings. AIM : The study aimed to quantify airborne TB ...
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Garcia, Regiane; Spiegel, Jerry M.; Yassi, Annalee; Ehrlich, Rodney; Romão, Paulo; Nunes, Elizabete A.; Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Mabhele, Simphiwe (MDPI, 2020-10)Given the very high incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among health workers in Mozambique, a low-income country in Southern Africa, implementation of measures to protect health workers from occupational TB remains a major ...
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Yassi, Annalee; Zungu, Laszchevon Muzimkhulu; Spiegel, Jerry M.; Kistnasamy, Barry; Lockhart, Karen; Jones, David; O’Hara, Lyndsay M.; Nophale, Letshego; Bryce, Elizabeth A.; Darwin, Lincoln (BioMed Central, 2016-03-31)BACKGROUND : Health workers are at high risk of acquiring infectious diseases at work, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) with critical health human resource deficiencies and limited implementation ...
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Liautaud, Alexandre; Adu, Prince A.; Yassi, Annalee; Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Spiegel, Jerry M.; Rawat, Angeli; Bryce, Elizabeth A.; Engelbrecht, Michelle C. (Elsevier, 2017)BACKGROUND : Insufficient training in infection control and occupational health among healthcare workers (HCWs) in countries with high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) burdens requires attention. ...
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Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Yassi, Annalee; Ramodike, Jonathan; Voyi, K.V.V. (Kuku); Lockhart, Karen; Jones, David; Kgalamono, Spo; Thunzi, Nkululeko; Spiegel, Jerry (Elsevier, 2023-12)BACKGROUND : Recognizing that access to safe and healthy working conditions is a human right, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for specific occupational safety and health (OSH) programs for health workers (HWs). ...
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Williams, Haidee; Ehrlich, Rodney; Barker, Stephen; Kisting-Cairncross, Sophia; Zungu, Muzimkhulu; Yassi, Annalee (MDPI, 2022-03-17)In the wake of a large burden of silicosis and tuberculosis among ex-miners from the South African gold mining industry, several programmes have been engaged in examining and compensating those at risk of these diseases. ...
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