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Paying the Price for a Broken Healthcare System: Rethinking Employment, Labor, and Work in a Post-Pandemic World

Ariel C. Avgar, Adrienne E. Eaton, Rebecca Kolins Givan, Adam Seth Litwin

2020Work and Occupations20 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

reentered the lexicon, pressures stemming from institutional and technological change challenged policymakers and provider organizations to rethink core features of the manner in which we deliver healthcare. This essay introduces a special issue devoted to the consequences of change on the healthcare sector's varied stakeholders. It does so in the context of our eventual, post-coronavirus reemergence and a renewed interest in remaking the healthcare system in light of its obvious deficiencies. Towards that end, we introduce the five papers composing this special issue, each of which informs the ways that change actually transpires in healthcare organizations and systems.

Topics & Concepts

Health careContext (archaeology)PandemicWork (physics)Healthcare systemLexiconPublic relationsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Political scienceSociologyBusinessLabour economicsEconomicsMedicineLawHistoryComputer scienceEngineeringArtificial intelligenceDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)ArchaeologyPathologyMechanical engineeringEmployment and Welfare StudiesHealthcare Policy and ManagementGlobal Health Workforce Issues