Health workforce strategies in response to major health events: a rapid scoping review with lessons learned for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

被引:18
作者
Coates, Alison [1 ]
Fuad, Asli-Oubah [2 ]
Hodgson, Amanda [3 ,4 ]
Bourgeault, Ivy Lynn [5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Ottawa, Telfer Sch Management, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[2] Univ Ottawa, Fac Med, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[3] Univ Ottawa Lib, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[4] Canadian Agcy Drugs & Technol Hlth CADTH, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[5] Univ Ottawa, Sch Sociol & Anthropol Studies, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[6] Canadian Hlth Workforce Network, Ottawa, ON, Canada
关键词
Health workforce; COVID-19; Emergency response; Pandemic response; Scope of practice; Surge capacity; Health human resources; Coronavirus; MEDICAL SUPPORT; DISASTER; CARE; EARTHQUAKE; INFLUENZA; COMMUNITY; EVACUEES; SERVICE; FLOODS; STAFF;
D O I
10.1186/s12960-021-00698-6
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R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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摘要
Background The early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic brought multiple concurrent threats-high patient volume and acuity and, simultaneously, increased risk to health workers. Healthcare managers and decision-makers needed to identify strategies to mitigate these adverse conditions. This paper reports on the health workforce strategies implemented in relation to past large-scale emergencies (including natural disasters, extreme weather events, and infectious disease outbreaks). Methods We conducted a rapid scoping review of health workforce responses to natural disasters, extreme weather events, and infectious disease outbreaks reported in the literature between January 2000 and April 2020. The 3582 individual results were screened to include articles which described surge responses to past emergencies for which an evaluative component was included in the report. A total of 37 articles were included in our analysis. Results The reviewed literature describes challenges related to increased demand for health services and a simultaneous decrease in the availability of the workforce. Many articles also described impacts on infrastructure that hindered emergency response. These challenges aligned well with those faced during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the published literature, the workforce strategies that were described aimed either to increase the numbers of health workers in a given area, to increase the flexibility of the health workforce to meet needs in new ways, or to support and sustain health workers in practice. Workforce responses addressed all types and cadres of health workers and were executed in a wide range of settings. We additionally report on the barriers and facilitators of workforce strategies reported in the literature reviewed. The strategies that were reported in the literature aligned closely with our COVID-specific conceptual framework of workforce capacity levers, suggesting that our framework may have heuristic value across many types of health disasters. Conclusions This research highlights a key deficiency with the existing literature on workforce responses to emergencies: most papers lack substantive evaluation of the strategies implemented. Future research on health workforce capacity interventions should include robust evaluation of impact and effectiveness.
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