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Review
. 2022 Feb;7(2):e188-e194.
doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00259-0.

Work and worker health in the post-pandemic world: a public health perspective

Susan E Peters  1 , Jack T Dennerlein  2 , Gregory R Wagner  3 , Glorian Sorensen  4
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Review

Work and worker health in the post-pandemic world: a public health perspective

Susan E Peters et al. Lancet Public Health. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of work in shaping population health and wellbeing. This Viewpoint applies a multilevel systems framework to assist in understanding the diverse and complex interactions of forces affecting worker health and wellbeing, and how trending changes in employment and working conditions have been accelerated by the pandemic. Government agencies concerned with population health and wellbeing, and economic activity must expand their capacity to monitor, evaluate, and respond to these trends. In addition, integrated enterprise and workplace-based approaches that consider the interactions among these multidimensional drivers will build organisation and worker resilience to navigate the continual changes in work and worker safety, health, and wellbeing in a post-pandemic world.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interests We declare no competing interests.

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The social–political–economic environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on work and workers Multilevel, evidenced-based systems model illustrating an example of the contextual forces evident during the COVID-19 pandemic that impacted the future of work and worker safety, health, and wellbeing. We applied a framework from Sorensen and colleagues.
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