Employment and working conditions of nurses : where and how health inequalities have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Llop-Gironés, Alba (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques)
Vračar, Ana (Organization for Workers' Initiative and Democratization, Zagreb, Croatia)
Llop-Gironés, Gisela (Nurse and Midwife Consultant, London, UK)
Benach, Joan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials)
Angeli-Silva, Livia (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Jaimez, Lucero (Nurse Consultant, Mexico City, México)
Thapa, Pramila (Nurse Consultant, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Bhatta, Ramesh (Yeti Health Science Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Mahindrakar, Santosh (Innovative Alliance for Public Health, New Delhi, India)
Bontempo Scavo, Sara (Nurse Consultant, Bologna, Italy)
Nar Devi, Sonia (Nurse and Midwife Consultant, Dublin, Ireland)
Barria, Susana (People's Health Movement, New Delhi, India)
Marcos Alonso, Susana
Julià, Mireia (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques)

Data:	2021
Resum:	Nurses and midwives play a critical role in the provision of care and the optimization of health services resources worldwide, which is particularly relevant during the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, they can only provide quality services if their work environment provides adequate conditions to support them. Today the employment and working conditions of many nurses worldwide are precarious, and the current pandemic has prompted more visibility to the vulnerability to health-damaging factors of nurses' globally. This desk review explores how employment relations, and employment and working conditions may be negatively affecting the health of nurses in countries such as Brazil, Croatia, India, Ireland, Italy, México, Nepal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Nurses' health is influenced by the broader social, economic, and political system and the redistribution of power relations that creates new policies regarding the labour market and the welfare state. The vulnerability faced by nurses is heightened by gender inequalities, in addition to social class, ethnicity/race (and caste), age and migrant status, that are inequality axes that explain why nurses' workers, and often their families, are exposed to multiple risks and/or poorer health. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, informalization of nurses' employment and working conditions were unfair and harmed their health. During COVID-19 pandemic, there is evidence that the employment and working conditions of nurses are associated to poor physical and mental health. The protection of nurses' health is paramount. International and national enforceable standards are needed, along with economic and health policies designed to substantially improve employment and working conditions for nurses and work-life balance. More knowledge is needed to understand the pathways and mechanisms on how precariousness might affect nurses' health and monitor the progress towards nurses' health equity.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article de revisió ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Nurses ; Employment conditions ; Working conditions ; Policy ; Health
Publicat a:	Human Resources for Health, Vol. 19 (september 2021) , ISSN 1478-4491

DOI: 10.1186/s12960-021-00651-7
PMID: 34530844

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