Impact of economic recessions on healthcare workers and their crises' responses: study protocol for a systematic review of the qualitative and quantitative evidence for the development of an evidence-based conceptual framework.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

During economic recessions, health professionals face reduced income and labour opportunities, hard conditions often exacerbated by governments' policy responses to crises. Growing evidence points to non-negligible effects on national health workforces and health systems-decrease in motivation, burnout, migration-arising from the combination of crisis-related factors. However, no theoretical conceptualisation currently exists framing the impacts recessions have on human resources for health (HRH), or on their reactions.

Methods and analysis

This paper lays out a protocol for a systematic review of the existing qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method evidence on the economic recessions and HRH; results from the review will be used to develop a conceptual frame

SUBMITTER: Jesus TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6886968 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature