Open AccessEssential, not peripheral: Addressing health care workers’ mental health concerns during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Guerrini Christi J.,
Storch Eric A.,
McGuire Amy L.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of occupational health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 59
ISSN - 1348-9585
DOI - 10.1002/1348-9585.12169
Subject(s) - pandemic , mental health , covid-19 , health care , medicine , population , environmental health , psychiatry , political science , virology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
In this Opinion, we synthesize recent evidence regarding the mental health impacts of the pandemic with an emphasis on health care workers. Departing from the literature that has already been published on this topic, we focus on health care workers with mental health concerns that preexisted the pandemic and discuss evidence suggesting that this population has suffered disproportionately from pandemic conditions.