The impact of health worker gap in Italy on the COVID-19 pandemic. A good time to improve the quality of the Italian National Health System (NHS)? | Zendy

Luca La Colla | Zendy; Maria Cristina Polidori | Zendy; Salomone Di Saverio | Zendy; Giuseppe Preziosi | Zendy; Luisa Mantovani | Zendy; Federico Caobelli | Zendy

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The impact of health worker gap in Italy on the COVID-19 pandemic. A good time to improve the quality of the Italian National Health System (NHS)?

Author(s) -

Luca La Colla,

Maria Cristina Polidori,

Salomone Di Saverio,

Giuseppe Preziosi,

Luisa Mantovani,

Federico Caobelli

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of infection and public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.983

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 1876-035X

pISSN - 1876-0341

DOI - 10.1016/j.jiph.2020.06.010

Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , quality (philosophy) , medicine , environmental health , virology , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , philosophy , epistemology , pathology

As of April 15, 2020, 165.155 patients have been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Italy, and 21.645 have died. This unexpected (and unpredictable) situation dramatically disclosed and further exacerbated the structural problems of the Italian NHS as reported in numerous papers. Jo ur na l P epr oo f

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