Healthy Working Conditions for Healthcare Staff
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (11 September 2020) | Viewed by 48679
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthcare staff are a pivotal part of the workforce in any society, providing physical and mental healthcare services in hospitals and the wider community. However, with increasing demands on services and staff shortages, many healthcare staff are exposed to a wide range of physical and psychosocial working conditions that put them at risk of poor physical and mental health and well-being. Large-scale reorganisation of healthcare services has also brought about changes to traditional ways of working in healthcare which may provide new challenges as well as opportunities for how work is designed. For example, new advanced practitioner roles have been developed, allowing nurses to take on more tasks traditionally carried out by doctors. Services have also been redesigned to provide more integrated and mulitdisciplinary models of care. New regulatory requirements and changes to the economic models and markets within healthcare are amongst other contextual factors within which these changes occur. Furthermore, effective workplace interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of healthcare staff are a priority for healthcare organisations attempting to retain staff and reduce costs of sickness absence and turnover.
This issue aims to contribute to our understanding of emerging work-related risk factors for the health and well-being of healthcare staff and the effectiveness of interventions to tackle them. There are a wide range of different professionals and job roles within the healthcare workforce, and we welcome research articles across the full spectrum of these. Of specific interest are articles on topics such as the identification, assessment and management of workplace risks for healthcare staff; the influence of working condition on work-related health and other related outcomes (e.g., turnover, absence, engagement); the design of healthy and engaging work for healthcare staff; the evaluation of interventions to improve the health of healthcare workers; and the use of novel research methods to understand the health of healthcare workers.
Dr. Louise Thomson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Healthcare staff
- Healthy work
- Occupational health
- Interventions
- Job retention
- Sickness absence
- Return to work
- Mental health
- Physical health
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