| dc.description.abstract | Quality Uptake of Occupational health epidemics, in infection prevention control, measures, endure the
crucial area of public health surveillance in public facility mortuaries. When handling potentially
infectious unclaimed corpses, globally, regionally and locally in western Kenya, to mediate primary
prevention in the health population. The main occupational hazards in public mortuaries are human
remains of unclaimed corpses or clinical inpatient deaths. In additional, contaminated surrounding
environment such mortuaries are also potentially harmful to the population health, due to cross infection
(Contact) or inhalation. The main mortuary occupational hazards include chemical, psychosocial,
biological, physical, and ergonomic hazards. While the basic biological infectious risks attributed
to the exposure to congest and overstayed unclaimed corpses by mortuary and forensic service
providers include, propagated pathogens of contagious biological origins, which have probability to
spread by inhalation or skin contact. Such as pulmonary tuberculosis, cholera, hepatitis B & C antigens,
HIV/ AIDS, and skin infections. Integument maceration by formalin and leukemia. However, though
most studies, global and regional, have promulgated on the perpetual increase of occupationalhealth
epidemics, attributed to congestion and overstay on unclaimed corpses in public mortuaries. Before
habitual span of 90 days of cold storage on “cold hit” of forensic investigations.Nostudieshave validated in reality, the prevalence of occupational health epidemic attributed toexposuretounclaimedcorpses
inpublicmortuaries, by mortuary and forensic service providersin western Kenya. Thus, the timely
need to study Health Based Propagated occupational health epidemics Attributed to overstayed and
congested unclaimed Corpse in public mortuaries. Specifically, to determine the level of occupational
hazards and infectious risks attributed to overstayed and congestion of unclaimed corpses in public
mortuaries and evaluate rate of professionalization of mortuary, forensic services, and essential supplies
of reagent and embalmment equipment replenishment, as basic variable for sustainable health hygiene
and sanitation on primary prevention in public mortuaries. Study designs, descriptive cross sectional
and cohorts’ studies of mixed methods. Study populations, Primary study population, (mortuary and
forensic service providers), and Secondary study population (retrospective desk review of unclaimed
corpses information records) for the past 5 years (2017 -2021). Samplingdesigns, Active convenient
purposive, and snow ball sampling, of past incidence exposure records of mortuary and forensic service
providers. Data collected, by semi-structured questionnaires, retrospective review form, KII, FGD and
observation guides. Data collected, spread on excel sheets before managed by SPSS version 26 for
descriptive and inferences analyzes. Odds ratio (OD) and relative risk ratio (RR), determined the
attributable risks in exposed and non- exposed population health. Qualitative data analyzed by
categorization of themes and triangulations of verbatim. Results, out of 6 hazards propagated,
majority were attributed to psychosocial hazards, 14 (22%), OD, (0.59, 0.1.7), RR (0.58). The most
prevalence infection was maceration of integuments, 13 (21%), due to single uptake of gloves. No
infectious epidemics recorded in the last 5 years of the retrospective desk and snowball study. Thus,
the need timely need to advocate for continuous health awareness via health education and health
promotion on need for health population to stop propagating on occupational health infectious
disease attributed to congestion and overstay of unclaimed corpses in public mortuaries. Since they
are no scientific records to support any significant outbreak attack to mortuary and forensic service
providers. | en_US |
