Gender and Race on the Frontline: Experiences of Health Workers in Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Studies on the differential effects of health emergencies have largely overlooked women health workers. Whilst the literature has shown the impact of Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) on women and on healthcare workers, little research has considered the gendered effects of the health workforce. Thi...

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Autores principales: Wenham, Clare, Fernandez, Michelle, Corrêa, Marcela Garcia, Lotta, Gabriela, Schall, Brunah, Rocha, Mariela Campos, Pimenta, Denise Nacif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Special Section: COVID-19 and the Social Politics of Crisis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8522389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36533212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab031
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author Wenham, Clare
Fernandez, Michelle
Corrêa, Marcela Garcia
Lotta, Gabriela
Schall, Brunah
Rocha, Mariela Campos
Pimenta, Denise Nacif
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description Studies on the differential effects of health emergencies have largely overlooked women health workers. Whilst the literature has shown the impact of Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) on women and on healthcare workers, little research has considered the gendered effects of the health workforce. This article analyses the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers and working conditions in Brazil’s public healthcare system, through consideration of gendered and racialized understandings of care and work. Data were taken from an online survey of 1,263 health workers, undertaken between September and October 2020, disaggregated by sex and by race in order to understand health workers’ experiences of the pandemic in one of the countries most significantly affected by the crisis.
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spelling pubmed-85223892021-10-20 Gender and Race on the Frontline: Experiences of Health Workers in Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic Wenham, Clare Fernandez, Michelle Corrêa, Marcela Garcia Lotta, Gabriela Schall, Brunah Rocha, Mariela Campos Pimenta, Denise Nacif Soc Polit Special Section: COVID-19 and the Social Politics of Crisis Studies on the differential effects of health emergencies have largely overlooked women health workers. Whilst the literature has shown the impact of Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) on women and on healthcare workers, little research has considered the gendered effects of the health workforce. This article analyses the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers and working conditions in Brazil’s public healthcare system, through consideration of gendered and racialized understandings of care and work. Data were taken from an online survey of 1,263 health workers, undertaken between September and October 2020, disaggregated by sex and by race in order to understand health workers’ experiences of the pandemic in one of the countries most significantly affected by the crisis. Oxford University Press 2021-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8522389/ /pubmed/36533212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab031 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Pimenta, Denise Nacif
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title_short Gender and Race on the Frontline: Experiences of Health Workers in Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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topic Special Section: COVID-19 and the Social Politics of Crisis
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8522389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36533212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxab031
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