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ArticleFrontiers in public health2023

Migrant healthcare workers during COVID-19: bringing an intersectional health system-related approach into pandemic protection. A German case study.

Ellen Kuhlmann, Marius-Ionut Ungureanu, Georg M N Behrens, Anne Cossmann, Leonie Mac Fehr, Sandra Klawitter, Marie Mikuteit, Frank Müller, Nancy Thilo, Monica Georgina Brînzac and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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11 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Ellen Kuhlmann *Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Marius-Ionut Ungureanu *Department of Public Health, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Georg M N BehrensDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Anne CossmannDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Leonie Mac FehrDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Sandra KlawitterDepartment of Computer Science, Ostfalia University of Applied Science, Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
Marie MikuteitDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Frank MüllerDepartment of General Practice, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Nancy ThiloDepartment of General Practice, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Monica Georgina BrînzacDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Alexandra Dopfer-JablonkaDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEBabeș-Bolyai University · ROUniversitätsmedizin Göttingen · DEGerman Center for Infection Research · DEOstfalia University of Applied Sciences · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Migrant healthcare workers played an important role during the COVID-19 pandemic, but data are lacking especially for high-resourced European healthcare systems. This study aims to research migrant healthcare workers through an intersectional health system-related approach, using Germany as a case study. Methods: An intersectional research framework was created and a rapid scoping study performed. Secondary analysis of selected items taken from two COVID-19 surveys was undertaken to compare perceptions of national and foreign-born healthcare workers, using descriptive statistics. Results: Available research is focused on worst-case pandemic scenarios of Brazil and the United Kingdom, highlighting racialised discrimination and higher risks of migrant healthcare workers. The German data did not reveal significant differences between national-born and foreign-born healthcare workers for items related to health status including SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination, and perception of infection risk, protective workplace measures, and government measures, but items related to social participation and work conditions with higher infection risk indicate a higher burden of migrant healthcare workers. Conclusions: COVID-19 pandemic policy must include migrant healthcare workers, but simply adding the migration status is not enough. We introduce an intersectional health systems-related approach to understand how pandemic policies create social inequalities and how the protection of migrant healthcare workers may be improved.

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COVID-19Transients and MigrantsDelivery of Health CareHealth PersonnelHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 pandemicGermanyhealth systemhealth workforceintersectional inequalitiesmigrant healthcare workersSARS-CoV-2secondary data analysis

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