This text deals with the multitude of issues associated with HIV disease and health workers, including volunteers. It is a comprehensive review, which includes research, evaluation and education at both personal and systems levels. Issues covered include Asia and general care in a number of regions around the world. Major international projects are discussed together with measurement and evaluation issues in the area of stress, burnout and AIDS impact. Aspects of organizational and management responses to HIV/ AIDS can enable researchers and health personnel to set up and evaluate their own projects.
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Professional and Professional Reference
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Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
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ISBN-13
978-3-7186-5660-8 (9783718656608)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Theoretical issues related to burnout in AIDS health workers; review of the research to date on impact of HIV/AIDS on health workers; the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of health care professionals regarding HIV and AIDS - current status of the research literature; the measurement of the impact of working with HIV-patients on nurses - reliability, construct and criterion-related validity of the AIDS impact scale; stress and burnout in AIDS health care - are there special characteristics?; models of management for occupational morbidity and burnout; the Sidney study -interventions to assist responses of health care professional in HIV/AIDS; the UK Multicentre Occupational Morbidity Study (MOMS) - issues of methodology, volunteer bias and preliminary findings on preferences for staff support in HIV/AIDS health staff; impact of HIV/AIDS caregiving on health workers in Uganda and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa; the impact of HIV/AIDS on health workers in South America; HIV/AIDS nursing in southeast Asia and Australia; infection control in the era of HIV/AIDS; health care professionals responding to AIDS - ethics, law and human rights; summary and directions for future research.
