healthcare workershealth workforce preparednesslow‐income countryHealthcare workers, who are in low‐resource settings, are critically vulnerable during the COVID pandemic. The increasing rate of coronavirus infection in a developing country such as Bangladesh caused the highest death rate of doctors ...
Healthcare workers who don't sleep well are twice as likely to report symptoms ofdepressionthan their better-rested colleagues, according to a recent study on the association between quality of sleep and psychological distress of healthcare workers in New York City during the pandemic. The study,...
KEY TAKEAWAYS Instances of healthcare professionals being beaten up are rising day by day. The Government had passed an ordinance amending the Epidemic Disease Act which is in the interest of the healthcare workers. The Act provides punishment for vi
Source:Healthcare workers suffered silently during COVID-19 pandemic infancy: Doctors– NewsDay Zimbabwe BY VANESSA GONYE HEALTHCARE workers (HCWs) reportedly suffered silently from mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. This came out in a recent report by the Zimbabwe A...
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed health workers to a diverse set of hazards impacting their physical, psychological and social wellbeing. This review aims to provide an overview of the categories of the psychosocial risk factors and hazards affecting HC
The Government of Karnataka has been attempting to control this pandemic by initiating a series of robust public health measures to trace, track and test contacts using trained health workers. Much of the response is co-ordinated by the Government Health care system (COVID-19 pandemic, Karnataka...
The solution of increased immigration of workers to address some worker shortages historically has been unavailable during the pandemic. According to data from the Census Bureau’sAmerican Community Survey, the past decade showed the smallest gain in the foreign-born population during any decade since...
The COVID-19 pandemic is currently a severe challenge for healthcare workers, with a considerable impact on their mental health. In order to focus preventive and rehabilitation measures it’s fundamental to identify risk factors of such psychological impairment. We designed an observational longitudinal...
Neil Greenberg and colleagues set out measures that healthcare managers need to put in place to protect the mental health of healthcare staff having to make morally challenging decisions The covid-19 pandemic is likely to put healthcare professionals across the world in an unprecedented situation,...
13 (Xinhua) -- As many as 4,500 health workers died in Brazil after contracting COVID-19 while working to save lives during the pandemic, a global federation representing public service workers said Thursday. Among the victims were 1,184 nurses, and eight out of 10 were women, according ...