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Occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in Taiwan: A systematic review of risk factors and control strategies
BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals in Taiwan are exposed to a myriad of occupational health and safety hazards, including physical, biological, chemical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazards. Healthcare professionals working in hospitals and healthcare facilities are more likely to be subjected to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7235655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32523695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312120918999 |
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author | Che Huei, Lin Ya-Wen, Lin Chiu Ming, Yang Li Chen, Hung Jong Yi, Wang Ming Hung, Lin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals in Taiwan are exposed to a myriad of occupational health and safety hazards, including physical, biological, chemical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazards. Healthcare professionals working in hospitals and healthcare facilities are more likely to be subjected to these hazards than their counterparts working in other areas. OBJECTIVES: This review aims to assess current research literature regarding this situation with a view to informing policy makers and practitioners about the risks of exposure and offer evidence-based recommendations on how to eliminate or reduce such risks. METHODS: Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses review strategy, we conducted a systematic review of studies related to occupational health and safety conducted between January 2000 and January 2019 using MEDLINE (Ovid), PubMed, PMC, TOXLINE, CINAHL, PLOS One, and Access Pharmacy databases. RESULTS: The review detected 490 studies addressing the issue of occupational health and safety hazards; of these, 30 articles were included in this systematic review. These articles reported a variety of exposures faced by healthcare professionals. This review also revealed a number of strategies that can be adopted to control, eliminate, or reduce hazards to healthcare professionals in Taiwan. CONCLUSION: Hospitals and healthcare facilities have many unique occupational health and safety hazards that can potentially affect the health and performance of healthcare professionals. The impact of such hazards on healthcare professionals poses a serious public health issue in Taiwan; therefore, controlling, eliminating, or reducing exposure can contribute to a stronger healthcare workforce with great potential to improve patient care and the healthcare system in Taiwan. Eliminating or reducing hazards can best be achieved through engineering measures, administrative policy, and the use of personal protective equipment. IMPLICATIONS: This review has research, policy, and practice implications and provides future students and researchers with information on systematic review methodologies based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses strategy. It also identifies occupational health and safety risks and provides insights and strategies to address them. |
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spelling | pubmed-72356552020-06-09 Occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in Taiwan: A systematic review of risk factors and control strategies Che Huei, Lin Ya-Wen, Lin Chiu Ming, Yang Li Chen, Hung Jong Yi, Wang Ming Hung, Lin SAGE Open Med Systematic Review BACKGROUND: Healthcare professionals in Taiwan are exposed to a myriad of occupational health and safety hazards, including physical, biological, chemical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazards. Healthcare professionals working in hospitals and healthcare facilities are more likely to be subjected to these hazards than their counterparts working in other areas. OBJECTIVES: This review aims to assess current research literature regarding this situation with a view to informing policy makers and practitioners about the risks of exposure and offer evidence-based recommendations on how to eliminate or reduce such risks. METHODS: Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses review strategy, we conducted a systematic review of studies related to occupational health and safety conducted between January 2000 and January 2019 using MEDLINE (Ovid), PubMed, PMC, TOXLINE, CINAHL, PLOS One, and Access Pharmacy databases. RESULTS: The review detected 490 studies addressing the issue of occupational health and safety hazards; of these, 30 articles were included in this systematic review. These articles reported a variety of exposures faced by healthcare professionals. This review also revealed a number of strategies that can be adopted to control, eliminate, or reduce hazards to healthcare professionals in Taiwan. CONCLUSION: Hospitals and healthcare facilities have many unique occupational health and safety hazards that can potentially affect the health and performance of healthcare professionals. The impact of such hazards on healthcare professionals poses a serious public health issue in Taiwan; therefore, controlling, eliminating, or reducing exposure can contribute to a stronger healthcare workforce with great potential to improve patient care and the healthcare system in Taiwan. Eliminating or reducing hazards can best be achieved through engineering measures, administrative policy, and the use of personal protective equipment. IMPLICATIONS: This review has research, policy, and practice implications and provides future students and researchers with information on systematic review methodologies based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses strategy. It also identifies occupational health and safety risks and provides insights and strategies to address them. SAGE Publications 2020-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7235655/ /pubmed/32523695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312120918999 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Systematic Review Che Huei, Lin Ya-Wen, Lin Chiu Ming, Yang Li Chen, Hung Jong Yi, Wang Ming Hung, Lin Occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in Taiwan: A systematic review of risk factors and control strategies |
title | Occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in Taiwan: A systematic review of risk factors and control strategies |
title_full | Occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in Taiwan: A systematic review of risk factors and control strategies |
title_fullStr | Occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in Taiwan: A systematic review of risk factors and control strategies |
title_full_unstemmed | Occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in Taiwan: A systematic review of risk factors and control strategies |
title_short | Occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in Taiwan: A systematic review of risk factors and control strategies |
title_sort | occupational health and safety hazards faced by healthcare professionals in taiwan: a systematic review of risk factors and control strategies |
topic | Systematic Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7235655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32523695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312120918999 |
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