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Occupational Health and Quality of Life of Health Care Workers in “Return to Work” Stage

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 4487

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Maria Malliarou

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Laboratory of Education and Research of Trauma Care and Patient Safety, Faculty of Nursing, University of Thessaly, 41110 Larisa, Greece
Interests: nursing; patient safety; occupational health; quality; education
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Occupational healthcare should incorporate measures to support workers’ wellbeing (physical, mental and social), prevent diseases, and promote healthy lifestyles and organizational conditions (organizational culture, organization of work), encouraging healthy work environments. The purpose of this Special Issue is to define how occupational healthcare may affect workers’ health-related quality of life, especially when they are in rehabilitation status or the “return to work” stage. Workers may be on sick leave due to various health problems, illnesses, injuries, or difficulties at work.

This Special Issue seeks manuscripts related to occupational healthcare and workers' quality of life in general, but particularly those concerning workers in the "return to work" stage. Original articles and reviews will be considered.

Dr. Maria Malliarou
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • occupational health
  • quality of life
  • “return to work”
  • rehabilitation
  • occupational illness
  • occupational injuries
  • chronic health problems
  • occupational cancer

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Editorial
Occupational Health and Quality of Life of Health Care Workers in the “Return to Work” Stage
by Maria Malliarou
Healthcare 2023, 11(2), 204; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11020204 - 10 Jan 2023
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Globally, over 59 million people are employed as health care workers [...] Full article
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The Usefulness of an Online Simplified Screening Questionnaire (SSQ) in Identifying Work-Related Cancers
by Fabiana L. Vazquez, Henrique C. S. Silveira, Ubirani B. Otero, Thais T. Hosokawa, José Humberto T. G. Fregnani, Adhemar Longatto-Filho and Rui M. Reis
Healthcare 2023, 11(11), 1563; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111563 - 26 May 2023
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To obtain a history of occupational exposure in the workplace, the questionnaire is one of the main sources of information. The aim of this study was to develop an online questionnaire using the REDCap data management platform based on the Work-Related Cancer Surveillance [...] Read more.
To obtain a history of occupational exposure in the workplace, the questionnaire is one of the main sources of information. The aim of this study was to develop an online questionnaire using the REDCap data management platform based on the Work-Related Cancer Surveillance Guidelines, reported by the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. Several issues were taken into consideration for its routine application. It should be simple, easy, capable of being applied in a short time and used in the clinical setting of collecting information on the occupational history of the cancer patient. Consequently, this could enable the compulsory notification of work-related cancer. The questionnaire was developed based on questions about the use of and exposure to carcinogenic factors at work and due to smoking. An entirely electronic version of the cancer patient interview was performed using tablets. The online questionnaire was applied at the Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, to newly diagnosed patients from July 2016 to 2018. A total of 1063 patients were included, and 550 indicated positively when asked “Do you work, or have you worked with this substance and/or in this function?/job?” Of these potentially notified patients, 38 subsequently had compulsorily reported work-related cancer. Another important result of this study was the creation and development of a website. In conclusion, we developed an online tool that could facilitate hospital routines, contributing to generating data for the compulsory notification of work-related cancer and triggering investigations and surveillance actions in Brazil. Full article
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Facilitators Associated with Nursing Burnout in the Ambulatory Care Setting as COVID-19 Subsides: A Rapid Review
by Cristian Lieneck, Jolene Bair, Stephanie Ardell, Brittany Aldridge and B. J. Austin
Healthcare 2023, 11(15), 2122; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11152122 - 25 Jul 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the healthcare industry and its workforce, particularly nurses, who have been at the forefront of patient care. As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, attention is turning to the long-term effects of the crisis on [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the healthcare industry and its workforce, particularly nurses, who have been at the forefront of patient care. As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, attention is turning to the long-term effects of the crisis on nurses’ mental health and well-being, and specifically nursing burnout. Prevalent risk factors related to nursing burnout often historically involve high workload, insufficient support and/or resources, work–life imbalance, and even lack of autonomy and organization climate challenges. Understanding the factors that contribute to nursing burnout to help mitigate it is vital to ensuring the ongoing health and well-being of the nursing workforce, especially since the ongoing waning of coronavirus (COVID-19). This rapid review identifies 36 articles and explores the latest research on nursing burnout in outpatient (ambulatory care) healthcare facilities as the global pandemic continues to subside, and therefore identifies constructs that suggest areas for future research beyond previously identified contributing factors of nursing burnout while the pandemic virus levels were high. Full article
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