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Better Planning, Better Care and Better Work through Better Data

By Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Linda Silas

Burnout was already far too common in the healthcare workforce before the pandemic, but COVID-19 has made the situation much worse. Healthcare workers are experiencing endemic levels of burnout directly related to understaffing and work overload.

During world health worker week, Oluwatobi Ogundele and Margaret Walton-Roberts take stock of what the pandemic has done to health workers.