{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Harrigan SP"],"funding":["Institute of Population and Public Health","International Development Research Centre"],"pagination":["e064804"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9534779"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12(10)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objectives</h4>To assess the extent to which protection of healthcare workers (HCWs) as COVID-19 emerged was associated with economic inequality among and within countries.<h4>Design</h4>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).<h4>Setting</h4>A global self-administered online survey.<h4>Participants</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>While the "],"journal":["BMJ open"],"pubmed_title":["Impacts of economic inequality on healthcare worker safety at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of a global survey."],"pmcid":["PMC9534779"],"funding_grant_id":["M20‐00559","VS1-175519"],"pubmed_authors":["Zungu M","Harrigan SP","Yassi A","Spiegel JM","Tsang VWL"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Impacts of economic inequality on healthcare worker safety at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of a global survey.","description":"<h4>Objectives</h4>To assess the extent to which protection of healthcare workers (HCWs) as COVID-19 emerged was associated with economic inequality among and within countries.<h4>Design</h4>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).<h4>Setting</h4>A global self-administered online survey.<h4>Participants</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>While the ","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Oct","modification":"2025-04-03T21:29:29.678Z","creation":"2025-04-03T21:29:29.678Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9534779","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36198468"],"doi":["10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064804"]}}