Healthcare practitioners’ construction of occupational risk during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wayne Rivera-Cuadrado

Social Science & Medicine, 2023, vol. 331, issue C

Abstract: In the pandemic's first year, frontline healthcare practitioners (HCPs) experienced a disproportionate burden of COVID-19's negative effects, including infection, death, trauma and burnout. Qualitative research is needed to understand practitioners' experiences to address the unique challenges they face. To this end, this article investigates occupational factors identified by practitioners as relevant to their risk perceptions. By positioning HCPs as a distinctive risk group in the hierarchical space of risk group prioritization, this analysis extends thinking about such classifications within medicine.

Keywords: Healthcare practitioners; COVID-19; Risk perceptions; Occupations; Essential work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116096

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