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Advancing health worker well-being: trends and opportunities
Advancing health worker well-being: trends and opportunities
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Mutha, Sunita, author
Shen, Emily, author
Schweitzer, Diane, author - Contributor(s):
- University of California, San Francisco. Healthforce Center, issuing body.
- Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : University of California, San Francisco, Healthforce Center, September 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Burnout, Professional -- prevention & control
Health Personnel -- psychology
Health Workforce -- trends
Mental Health Services
California
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Health systems are uniquely positioned to advance health equity in communities by ensuring that workers are well, resilient, and equipped to deliver high-quality care. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how work environments in health systems affects the well-being of workers, whose capacity to deliver safe, patient- and family-centered care plays a central role in achieving health. The aim of this project was to guide recommendations for future investments with the potential to identify health worker supports, strategies, and efforts to promote well-being, and to strengthen systems that ensure that they advance equity in health care and treat patients as people. We conducted a scan of peer-reviewed and grey literature and interviewed a diverse set of national stakeholders committed to and responsible for addressing health worker well-being. The literature scan confirmed the need to prioritize multi-pronged organizational interventions over individual interventions to achieve systems change supporting worker wellness. Conversations with stakeholders underscored that the broader context in which health workers live and work affects their health and well-being. The effects on work and work climate of the COVID-19 pandemic, unmet social needs, recent social movements around racism, and larger policy issues around payment, reimbursement, and wages were emphasized as particularly profound. The pandemic’s disproportionate effect on middle skill workers highlights differences in the nature of their work as well as differential access to skills, training, and social supports. These differences point to gaps in our knowledge of the factors that affect well-being for middle skill workers; this understanding is essential for designing effective interventions. The gaps highlight areas that would benefit from investment and strategies to prevent and ease burnout, improve diversity, and inform how to better promote progress toward health equity for a diverse workforce.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (40 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918383862106676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918383862106676