Gérer les risques liés au travail durant la grossesse. Vers un nouveau modèle de gestion de la santé et sécurité des travailleuses enceintes by Anne-Renée Gravel, Romaine Malenfant

“…Beginning with results from research carried out in hospitals from three Quebec regions, this paper shows how adding a prevention agent who is in charge of applying re-assignment rights makes it possible to effectively influence ergonomic and organizational constraints and to keep women working during pregnancy with a constructive approach that is beneficial for both workers and employers.…”
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Zakotwiczanie się. Migrantki z Polski w norweskim przedszkolu by Izabela Czerniejewska

“… Based on participant observation and ethnographic interviews with Polish women working in kin-dergartens in Norway, this article studies the migrant women’s employment trajectories, including adaptation processes in the workplace and integration into the wider Norwegian society. …”
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Handgrip Strength as a Diagnostic Tool in Work-Related Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders in Women by Deborah Alperovitch-Najenson, Eli Carmeli, Raymond Coleman, Haim Ring

“…The aim of this study was to determine if handgrip strength might be used as a diagnostic tool in musculoskeletal disorders of the upper extremities in women working in an industrial environment. The setting was an electronic factory with four groups of women (n = 101) in a factory assembling electronic components. …”
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Exploring barriers and facilitators of primary care physicians towards optimising statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidaemia in the very high-risk group: a qualitative study i... by Chun Yen Beh, Rose Wai-Yee Fok, Lay Hoon Goh

“…Objectives To explore the perspectives of primary care physicians with regard to the barriers and facilitators towards optimising statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidaemia in the very high-risk group.Design Qualitative descriptive study.Setting Four polyclinics in a public primary care institution in Singapore.Participants Seven men and five women working as primary care physicians were recruited for in-depth interviews.Results The major barriers to statin optimisation identified were patients’ lack of knowledge and awareness, patients’ fear of side effects, negative external influences on patients, poor doctor–patient relationship, time constraint during consultations, physicians’ unfamiliarity with guidelines, low health literacy among the local population and lack of strong national policy. …”
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Des femmes allemandes au service de la guerre : participations actives aux politiques raciales nationales-socialistes, à la déportation et au génocide (1939-1945) by Elissa Mailänder

“…Taking as an example the three groups of women studied, this contribution first proposes to analyze the lives and experiences of women before their engagement in the war; secondly, the article examines the behavior and concrete spaces of action of women working in the occupied territories of the East, in order to determine in the third section the individual responsibility of women in the Nazi occupation, persecutions and murders. …”
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Regular Antenatal Attendance and Education Influence the Uptake of Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy: A Cross-Sectional Study at the University Hospital, Ku... by Otchere Addai-Mensah, Max Efui Annani-Akollor, Linda Ahenkorah Fondjo, Kwadwo Sarbeng, Enoch Odame Anto, Eddie-Williams Owiredu, Shanice Nglokie Arthur

“…The results emphasize the need for the Health Policy Makers in Kumasi to encourage pregnant women, especially women working in the formal sector and women having more than four children to patronize ANC attendance to ensure high coverage of the recommended IPTp dose.…”
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