COVID-19Healthcare SystemPublic Health BurdenHealthcare ProfessionalsHealth PromotionThe COVID 19 pandemic has drastically affected the overburdened public health systems in many countries. This has escalated the challenges faced in hiring, deploying, retaining, and protecting adequate well-trained, ...
healthcare systems and forced healthcare workers to grapple with clinical and nonclinical stressors, including shortages of personal protective equipment, mortality and morbidity associated with COVID-19, fear of bringing the virus home to family...
COVID-19 and related fears add further strains on immigrant hotel and foodservice workers, potentially exerting a significant toll on their mental and physical health and safety. 3. Stress, allostatic load, and syndemic risk of immigrant hospitality workers Because immigrant workers are overrepresented...
Long lockdowns, food shortages, and the inability to receive basic primary healthcare have aggravated the effects of pandemics. However, most studies have focused on the health problems of the infected people or the measures employed to keep the disease under control. This cross-sectional study f...
COVID-19SARS-COV-2coronavirusstaff absencestaff sicknessINTRODUCTION:COVID-19 presents a risk to healthcare workers, incurring harm to staff physical and mental wellbeing and difficulties in provision of care and service planning.METHODOLOGY:Doctors' anonymised demographic and staff sickness data were ...
As a global health emergency, the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) led to the implementation of widespread restrictions (e.g., quarantine, physical/social distancing measures). However, while these restrictions reduce the viral spread of COVID-19, they may exacerbate beha...
The effects of COVID-19 on the heart, both in the long and short term, have been a topic of interest for scientists and health experts since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Early research found a large portion of deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID...
have not yet expanded Medicaid, non–COVID-19 health care spending may decline even after the pandemic is under control. The current employment-based health insurance system, combined with the lack of a coverage safety net, will exacerbate the effects of the pandemic on the most vulnerable ...
Using an online survey, we examined the impact of the COVID pandemic on primary care diabetes services in the UK. Methods An online survey was developed by the Primary Care Diabetes Society research group and administered to healthcare and allied health professionals delivering diabetes care in the...
The majority of studies have examined the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on limited components of wellbeing. For instance, many studies define wellbeing as relating to one or two underlying domains, such as mental health, physical health, life satisfaction, economic/financial wellbeing, or ...