Accounting for the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on healthcare professionals: informing sustainable practices to achieve SDGs
Purpose: While most studies have investigated healthcare responses to emergent health needs during COVID-19 crisis, scant research has addressed accounting for the pandemic’s impact on healthcare personnel’ quality of life. Methodology: A survey has been conducted to gather data from professional...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Odv Casa Arcobaleno
2025-06-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Volunteering and Community-Based Projects |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.odvcasarcobaleno.it/index.php/ejvcbp/article/view/243 |
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| Summary: | Purpose: While most studies have investigated healthcare responses to emergent health needs during COVID-19 crisis, scant research has addressed accounting for the pandemic’s impact on healthcare personnel’ quality of life.
Methodology: A survey has been conducted to gather data from professionals working for a Northern Italian public local healthcare organization, to understand their perceptions on their self-efficacy, work environment, working conditions and quality of life during COVID19.
Findings: Positive work environment was found to reduce negative effects of COVID19 on the quality of life of healthcare personnel. At the same it brought a better achievement of work-life balance. Nevertheless, increased self-efficacy caused a sense of malaise due to the heavy workload and additional responsibilities.
Originality/Value: This study takes a broader stance on “accounting” as non-financial information relevant for sustainability decision making and adopts such a perspective to account for the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on healthcare professionals operating in a local health organization; this approach allows to inform sustainable human resource management practices in the light of SDGs in such knowledge-intensive organizations.
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| ISSN: | 2724-0592 2724-1947 |