International Labour Organization
COVID-19 and the Health Sector
ILO Sectoral Brief
ILO, 2020
What's inside?
Learn how the pandemic crisis has challenged the health care sector – and how countries need to respond.
Recommendation
An informative report from the International Labour Organization outlines COVID-19’s impact on health workers and health systems around the world. Published in April 2020, the report indicates how countries responded in the early months of the pandemic. The issues it raises – of occupational safety and health, workers’ mental health, working hours, gender disparities, workforce shortages, and financial impacts – remain relevant and largely unresolved.
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