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Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social work profession
COVID-19 stretched health systems, exacerbated by concerns about those that are corrupt and lack equity. Twelve (12) health workers and 12 hospital social workers across Nigeria were purposively sampled and virtually interviewed to explore unaccountability and corruption effects on COVID-19 response...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9837023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36650896 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00208728211073391 |
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author | Agwu, Prince Orjiakor, Charles T Odii, Aloysius Onwujekwe, Obinna |
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description | COVID-19 stretched health systems, exacerbated by concerns about those that are corrupt and lack equity. Twelve (12) health workers and 12 hospital social workers across Nigeria were purposively sampled and virtually interviewed to explore unaccountability and corruption effects on COVID-19 responses. Findings show that corruption and unaccountability negatively affected responses of frontline health workers to the pandemic. Lack of social care and justice services for patients and health workers across health facilities in Nigeria worsened the negative effects. Effectively mainstreaming social care and justice services into Nigeria’s healthcare led by well-trained social workers will improve the health sector via anticorruption. |
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spelling | pubmed-98370232023-01-13 Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social work profession Agwu, Prince Orjiakor, Charles T Odii, Aloysius Onwujekwe, Obinna Int Soc Work Articles COVID-19 stretched health systems, exacerbated by concerns about those that are corrupt and lack equity. Twelve (12) health workers and 12 hospital social workers across Nigeria were purposively sampled and virtually interviewed to explore unaccountability and corruption effects on COVID-19 responses. Findings show that corruption and unaccountability negatively affected responses of frontline health workers to the pandemic. Lack of social care and justice services for patients and health workers across health facilities in Nigeria worsened the negative effects. Effectively mainstreaming social care and justice services into Nigeria’s healthcare led by well-trained social workers will improve the health sector via anticorruption. SAGE Publications 2023-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9837023/ /pubmed/36650896 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00208728211073391 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Agwu, Prince Orjiakor, Charles T Odii, Aloysius Onwujekwe, Obinna Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social work profession |
title | Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline
health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social
work profession |
title_full | Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline
health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social
work profession |
title_fullStr | Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline
health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social
work profession |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline
health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social
work profession |
title_short | Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline
health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social
work profession |
title_sort | effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline
health workers to covid-19 in nigeria: lessons and considerations for the social
work profession |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9837023/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36650896 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00208728211073391 |
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