Signals of the future of work (May. 2020)

>> Are health professionals staying healthy?

As the days go by and lockdown measures are slowly lifted, we are seeing an increasing amount of data on the pandemic’s effect on the health of the very healthcare professionals on the front line battling the virus. Besides the risk of being infected (in Spain alone, over 50,000 healthcare workers have already caught the disease), we cannot overlook the impact that this adverse situation is having on their mental health. For a look at this side of the story, we recommend an article that was recently published in the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open, titled Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019. The article offers insight into