Health workforce strategies in response to major health events: a rapid scoping review with lessons learned for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic brought multiple concurrent threats-high patient volume and acuity and, simultaneously, increased risk to health workers. Healthcare managers and decision-makers needed to identify strategies to mitigate these adverse conditions. This paper reports on the health workforce strategies implemented in relation to past large-scale emergencies (including natural disasters, extreme weather events, and infectious disease outbreaks).

Methods

We conducted a rapid scoping review of health workforce responses to natural disasters, extreme weather events, and infectious disease outbreaks reported in the literature between January 2000 and April 2020. The 3582 individual results were screened to include articles which described surge res

SUBMITTER: Coates A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8685817 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature