This guide answers questions about using respirators to prevent TB transmission.
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Health Professionals
1995
This book presents information about implementing, maintaining, and evaluating respirator protection programs in health care facilities.
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Managers and Supervisors
Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
1999
This videotape and CD-ROM provide guidance to respiratory protection administrators in the development of programs to prevent TB through respirator use.
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2000
This report presents the findings of a short-term study to examine the risk of TB among health care workers. It discusses the possible effects of federal guidelines, responses to resurgent TB, and proposed strategies for eliminating TB in the United States and worldwide.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2001
This DVD is an educational program about TB prevention through respirator use.
This video is also available in Real Media Streaming Videos and Downloadable Flash Video.
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Health Professionals
2002
This report was conducted to systematically investigate the conditions under which Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) can be expected to mitigate the spread of Tuberculosis.
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2002
This guideline is developed by the Global Health Initiative, World Health Organization, UNAIDS and the Global Partnership to Stop TB for the joint management of HIV/AIDS and TB in the workplace.
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Managers and Supervisors
2004
In 2003, infectious pulmonary TB disease was diagnosed in a foreign-born nurse working in the newborn nursery and maternity ward of a New York City hospital. This report summarizes the results of the investigation that followed.
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2005
To describe patterns of silicosis mortality in the United States, CDC analyzed data from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) National Occupational Respiratory Mortality System (NORMS) for 1968-2002. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated a decline in silicosis mortality during 1968-2002 and suggested that progress has been made in reducing the incidence of silicosis in the United States...
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2005
This eTool focuses on some of the hazards and controls found in the hospital setting, and describes standard requirements as well as recommended safe work practices for employee safety and health.
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2007
This handbook is intended to give guidance to those responsible for developing country-specific strategic plans and annual implementation plans for HRD for comprehensive TB control within overall HRH development. The central theme of this handbook points to the need for close collaboration between, and coordination among, national TB control programmes and the departments of health system management or human resources for health of the Ministry of Health and their respective partners...
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Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2009
The ILO and WHO, with the help of other partners in the world of work, have collaborated to develop international guidelines of TB management at the workplace. These outline how any business, large or small, or public sector workplace can make a contribution to TB management and control.
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Managers and Supervisors
2010
This fact sheet details the three levels of TB infection control in health-care settings, considerations for selection of respirators, and implementing a respiratory protection program.
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Health Professionals
Managers and Supervisors
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2010
This manual provides information about the guidelines and regulations pertaining to TB infection control, methods of reducing the risk of TB infection, and facility-specific guidelines for reducing the risk and dealing with potential exposure.
The manual contains information, forms, signs, and user-friendly tools for clinics, hospitals, homeless shelters, and other parties interested in the prevention and control of tuberculosis.
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
Lab Personnel
Managers and Supervisors
2011
This resource provides information about the guidelines and regulations pertaining to TB infection control, methods of reducing the risk of TB infection, and facility-specific guidelines for reducing the risk and dealing with potential exposure.
The manual contains information, forms, signs, and user-friendly tools for clinics, hospitals, homeless shelters, and other parties interested in the prevention and control of tuberculosis.
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Health Professionals
Managers and Supervisors
Lab Personnel
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2011
