Personal, Occupational, and Public Health Perspectives on Dealing with the First Case of Influenza A (H1N1) in the United Arab Emirates

New epidemics of infectious diseases often involve health care workers. In this short communication we present a case report of a health care professional who became the first case of influenza H1N1 virus to be notified in the United Arab Emirates. There are several issues related to workplace consi...

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Autores principales: Shah, Syed M., Aw, Tar-Ching, Blair, Iain, Hashmey, Rayhan, Sheek-Hussein, Mahmoud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953191
http://dx.doi.org/10.5491/SHAW.2011.2.1.83
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spelling pubmed-34318932012-09-05 Personal, Occupational, and Public Health Perspectives on Dealing with the First Case of Influenza A (H1N1) in the United Arab Emirates Shah, Syed M. Aw, Tar-Ching Blair, Iain Hashmey, Rayhan Sheek-Hussein, Mahmoud Saf Health Work Case Report New epidemics of infectious diseases often involve health care workers. In this short communication we present a case report of a health care professional who became the first case of influenza H1N1 virus to be notified in the United Arab Emirates. There are several issues related to workplace considerations and general public health, including preventive measures, the need for isolation of the patient, dealing with contacts, return to work, and communication with the workforce. Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute 2011-03 2011-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3431893/ /pubmed/22953191 http://dx.doi.org/10.5491/SHAW.2011.2.1.83 Text en Copyright © 2011 by Safety and Health at Work (SH@W) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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