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Healthcare Workers’ Burdens During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A …

(3 days ago) WebTo explore the challenges faced by different frontline workers in health and social care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Healthcare providers (n = 40), including nurses (n = 15), support workers (n = 15), and managers (n = 10) Explorative qualitative …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8558429/

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Confronting Health Worker Burnout and Well-Being NEJM

(Just Now) WebHealth worker burnout is a serious threat to the nation’s health and economic security. The time for incremental change has passed. We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2207252

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COVID burnout hitting all levels of healthcare workforce

(5 days ago) WebCOVID survey finds more than half of healthcare workers stressed, overworked, and ready to leave. Although much focus has been placed on physician and nurse burnout, a new study finds the COVID-19 …

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/covid-burnout-hitting-all-levels-of-health-care-workforce/

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Data Brief: Health Care Workforce Challenges Threaten Hospitals

(8 days ago) WebThe critical staffing shortage of health care workers has forced hospitals to incur increased costs during the ongoing pandemic. Hospitals have experienced a 15.6% increase in labor expenses per adjusted discharge compared to September 2019. Hospitals also have experienced increases in most other categories of expenses, including …

https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2021-11-01-data-brief-health-care-workforce-challenges-threaten-hospitals-ability-care

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Health and Care Worker Deaths during COVID-19

(6 days ago) WebHealth and care workers are the foundation of health systems and the driving force to achieving universal health coverage and global health security. Their commitment and professionalism throughout the pandemic are evident to all: extraordinary people, performing extraordinary work. However, too many of them have become …

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-10-2021-health-and-care-worker-deaths-during-covid-19

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How Front Line Workers Stayed Resilient During The Pandemic

(1 days ago) WebHealthcare professionals, emergency responders, and other frontline workers faced extraordinary challenges during the pandemic. For our series on resilience, we hear how they persevered.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008304472/how-front-line-workers-stayed-resilient-during-the-pandemic

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Facts on health and care workers - World Health …

(5 days ago) WebPrevalence of depression, anxiety, and insomnia among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Brain, behavior, and immunity, S0889-1591(20)30845-X. [iv] …

https://www.who.int/campaigns/annual-theme/year-of-health-and-care-workers-2021/facts

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Health care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: …

(4 days ago) WebBackground COVID-19 has challenged health systems worldwide, especially the health workforce, a pillar crucial for health systems resilience. Therefore, strengthening health system resilience can be informed by analyzing health care workers’ (HCWs) experiences and needs during pandemics. This review synthesizes qualitative studies …

https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-022-00724-1

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Keep health workers safe to keep patients safe: WHO

(1 days ago) WebThe World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on governments and health care leaders to address persistent threats to the health and safety of health workers and patients. “The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded all of us of the vital role health workers play to relieve suffering and save lives,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom …

https://www.who.int/news/item/17-09-2020-keep-health-workers-safe-to-keep-patients-safe-who

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What’s it like to be a healthcare worker in a pandemic?

(3 days ago) Web(See this link for more information about pregnancy and breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic) All of this takes a toll, of course. Already, reports are surfacing describing the significant psychological distress healthcare workers are experiencing. The bottom line. We know how to protect healthcare workers from this new virus. Fixing the

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/whats-it-like-to-be-a-healthcare-worker-in-a-pandemic-2020040819485

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Essential but undervalued: Millions of health care workers aren’t

(4 days ago) WebThe public health stakes during a pandemic are high—rushing back to their jobs before they are fully recovered jeopardizes workers’ well-being and risks spreading the coronavirus to patients

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/essential-but-undervalued-millions-of-health-care-workers-arent-getting-the-pay-or-respect-they-deserve-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/

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Strategies to Mitigate Healthcare Personnel Staffing Shortages

(7 days ago) WebHealthcare facilities must be prepared for potential staffing shortages and have plans and processes in place to mitigate these shortages. These plans and processes include communicating with HCP about actions the facility is taking to address shortages, maintaining patient and HCP safety, and providing resources to assist HCP with anxiety …

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/mitigating-staff-shortages.html

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How to protect healthcare workers – and improve pandemic …

(5 days ago) WebHealthcare should be reimagined based on the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic ­– and healthcare workers should be leading health policy work. More investment is required for building resilient healthcare systems and facilities, leveraging communities and focusing healthcare work on prevention.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/6-steps-to-protecting-healthcare-workers-improving-pandemic-preparedness-jobs-reset-summit-2021/

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Health Care Worker Turnover During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(Just Now) WebHealth care workers were deemed to be among the essential workers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 Despite calls to retrain and redeploy them, approximately 1.5 million health care workers lost their jobs during the first peak of the pandemic (April 2020) when clinics closed temporarily and hospitals postponed …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2790961

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Caring for people who care: supporting health workers during the …

(3 days ago) WebAs the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us, health workers are of paramount importance to any health-care system to guarantee access to quality care for the population. According to WHO data, health workers represent less than 3% of the population of most countries, and less than 2% in low-income and middle-income countries. Yet, 14% of the …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30411-9/fulltext

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Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the COVID …

(9 days ago) WebIn their daily practice, health care workers (HCWs) experience the effects of tensions between professional ethos and work realities, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Providing In-Depth Insights Into Ethical and Individual Challenges. …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10497323241231521?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.12

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Experiences of stigma, discrimination and violence and their

(Just Now) WebRossi, R. et al. Mental health outcomes among frontline and second-line health care workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Italy. JAMA Netw. open. 3 (5), e2010185 (2020).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-59700-5

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The mental health toll among healthcare workers during the …

(Just Now) WebThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of healthcare workers worldwide, with frontline personnel experiencing heightened rates of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress. This

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-61216-x

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Risk Factors for Stress and Burnout Healthcare Workers CDC

(9 days ago) WebThe COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated additional elements of fatigue, strain, stress, loss, and grief for healthcare workers. Many healthcare workers experienced increased workloads in the face of short staffing and shortages in critical personal protective equipment. This led to increasing anxiety and the risk of personal harm.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/healthcare/risk-factors/stress-burnout.html

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Understanding and Responding to Health Workforce Challenges: …

(6 days ago) WebProviders have faced the ongoing challenge of health workforce shortages, which worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic and persists today. We were delighted to receive the largest number of abstract submissions for the 2024 Annual Research Meeting in the past four years, reflecting the increasing importance and urgency of health …

https://academyhealth.org/blog/2024-05/understanding-and-responding-health-workforce-challenges-health-workforce-theme-sessions-2024-annual-research-meeting

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“We might not have been in hospital, but we were frontline …

(8 days ago) WebThe response to the COVID-19 pandemic saw a significant increase in demand for the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector to provide support to local communities. In Greater Manchester (GM), the VCFSE sector and informal networks provided health and wellbeing support in multiple ways, culminating in its …

https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-024-10921-4

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Mental health symptoms and associated factors among primary …

(1 days ago) WebMental health symptoms of healthcare workers have become a significant public problem in the healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic (20–22). Healthcare workers have concerns about the risk of COVID-19, inadequate personal protective equipment, excessive workload, workplace violence, and many more easily …

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1374667/full

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COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination experiences and perceptions …

(3 days ago) WebThere was moderate level of prevalence of strong COVID-19 experience and perception, high prevalence of good COVID-19 vaccination expectation and perception, and high prevalence of positive COVID-19 vaccination process experience and perception among the health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ebonyi state, Nigeria.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0303172

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Health systems challenges, mitigation strategies and adaptations …

(8 days ago) WebThe COVID-19 pandemic control strategies disrupted the smooth delivery of essential health services (EHS) globally. Limited evidence exists on the health systems lens approach to analyzing the challenges encountered in maintaining EHS during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to identify the health system challenges …

https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-024-11072-2

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Exploring factors affecting the unsafe behavior of health care …

(8 days ago) WebThe use of respiratory masks has been one of the most important measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, correct and safe use of breathing masks is vital. The purpose of this study was to exploring factors affecting the unsafe behavior of health care workers’ in …

https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-024-11000-4

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“I pity the TB patient”: a mixed methods study assessing the …

(8 days ago) WebIntroduction In Indonesia, a country with around 280 million people and the second-highest tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in the world, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB care needs careful assessment so that future response strategies can be strengthened. We conducted a study comparing TB testing and treatment rates before …

https://gh.bmj.com/content/9/5/e014943

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These Filipino healthcare workers in Gilgandra live away from their

(9 days ago) WebThe Filipino healthcare workers during a shift handover at Cooee Lodge Hostel. ( ABC News: Richard Mockler ) In Australia, recruits from the Philippines make up 6 per cent of the registered nurse

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-11/filipino-nurses-saving-australias-aged-care-sector/103809008

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WHO renews the Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health in …

(6 days ago) WebThe topics covered include the occupational health system and policy, universal health coverage, vulnerable groups of workers, mental health at work, climate change and workers’ health, with a particular focus on the health, safety and well-being of health workers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the centre coordinated the project “Actions to

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/16-05-2024-who-renews-the-collaborating-centre-for-occupational-health-in-north-macedonia

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