Public health care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of job demands and work functioning between temporary and permanent staff.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic posed an enormous challenge on the public health workforce, leading to the hiring of much temporary staff. Temporary staff may experience poorer working conditions compared to permanent staff. From a public health perspective, we need to know how working conditions are experienced when there is an acute pressure on recruiting sufficient public health care staff. This study aimed to investigate differences in job demands and work functioning between temporary and permanent public health care staff, during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands and compare it with available pre-pandemic data from the general working population.

Methods

This cross-sectional study included temporary (n = 193) and permanent (n = 98) public hea

SUBMITTER: van Dijk Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11375891 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature