Impacts of economic inequality on healthcare worker safety at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of a global survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the extent to which protection of healthcare workers (HCWs) as COVID-19 emerged was associated with economic inequality among and within countries.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of associations of perceptions of workplace risk acceptability and mitigation measure adequacy with indicators of respondents' respective country's economic income level (World Bank assessment) and degree of within-country inequality (Gini index).

Setting

A global self-administered online survey.

Participants

4977 HCWs and healthcare delivery stakeholders from 161 countries responded to health and safety risk questions and a subset of 4076 (81.2%) answered mitigation measure questions. The majority (65%) of study participants were female.

Results

While the

SUBMITTER: Harrigan SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9534779 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature