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Human resources for health during COVID-19: Supporting and protecting health workers

2022

The up testing facilities in many countries huge shift towards remote consultations in that may be needed in the future to help care areas such as primary care has played support health workers further and help made the provision of PPE and routine. [...] Box 1: WHO support in gathering evidence on mental health and wellbeing  support for health workers Implementing measures to protect the physical health of health workers has In the fall of 2020, WHO/Europe responded to the call of Member States to gather required coordinated governance actions intelligence and experiences across the region on how to support the mental across the health system. [...] These webinars helped shed light on: PPE use in different health and long- 1. the spectrum of practical tools and interventions that have been used across the term care facilities and for different WHO European Region to support the mental health and wellbeing of the health types of health worker. [...] Changes during the sustained period of COVID-19 whereby health professionals can talk to a in regulation have been required in has increased the risk of mental health matched peer and health providers offering some countries, for instance to relax problems and burnout for frontline mindfulness and wellbeing sessions. [...] New, targeted funding psychological disorders, the majority of mental health support, initiatives to has also been needed in many instances; Member States have put in place measures manage the work environment, such for example, in Sweden the government during the pandemic to protect the mental as through implementation of breaks, provided SEK 150 million (about health and wellbeing of health work
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Authors

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Williams, Gemma A., Scarpetti, Giada, Langins, Magrieta, Callies, Ingrid, Fourcade, Alexandra, van Ginneken, Ewout, Maier, Claudia B.

ISSN
1356-1030
Published in
Switzerland
Rights Holder
World Health Organization

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