Do gloves, extra gloves, or special types of gloves help prevent percutaneous exposure injuries among healthcare personnel?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sera Tort ◽  
Jane Burch
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Percutaneous Exposure

Gloves, extra gloves or special types of gloves for preventing percutaneous exposure injuries in healthcare personnel

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Mischke ◽  
Jos H Verbeek ◽  
Annika Saarto ◽  
Marie-Claude Lavoie ◽  
Manisha Pahwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Percutaneous Exposure

Medical Migration and The Global Politics of Equality1

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Bradby
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Medical Migration ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Foreign Doctors

Employing doctors and nurses who were trained overseas has been standard practice since the inception of the British National Health Service (NHS) in 1948. However, by the twenty-first century, recruitment of doctors from Africa was being compared with the slave trade in terms of its exploitative and damaging effects: ‘current policies of recruiting doctors from poor countries are a real cause of premature death and untreated disease in those countries and actively contribute to the sum of human misery.’ The assertion that employing foreign doctors was causing poor health in those doctors’ countries of origin was echoed in two reports from global health organisations, which stressed the emigration of skilled healthcare personnel from the sub-Saharan region of Africa as being related to concomitant deterioration in populations ife expectancy and declared a ‘global health workforce crisis.

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