Challenges for the female health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: the need for protection beyond the mask | Zendy

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Challenges for the female health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: the need for protection beyond the mask

Author(s) -

Claudia Crimi,

Annalisa Carlucci

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

pulmonology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.826

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2531-0437

pISSN - 2531-0429

DOI - 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2020.09.004

Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , pandemic , personal protective equipment , betacoronavirus , coronavirus infections , medline , health care , virology , medical emergency , economic growth , disease , outbreak , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , economics

The COVID-19 outbreak hit the world with unprecedented consequences on global health, economy and people’s lives. As the virus spread across the countries, it rapidly showed a different impact on the two sexes. Gender analysis and sex-disaggregated data showed different outcomes across groups of similar age and sex, with an overall significantly higher COVID-19-related mortality rate in men compared with women. Beyond epidemiological data, the virus has shed light on a silent gender gap that we need to look at. Approximately 70% of the global health-care workforce is made up of women, according to an analysis of 104 countries conducted by the World Health Organization, reaching 90% in Hubei province. A first gap sticks out: most of the health-care heroes that tackled COVID-19 in the frontline

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