Editorial: Healthy Healthcare: Empirical Occupational Health Research and Evidence-Based Practice

摘要

Many countries within the European Union report significant difficulties in retaining and recruitinghealthcare workers and are facing increasing levels of predicted staff shortages over the long term(European Commission, 2020). A substantial amount of scientific research from the past fewdecades points to the importance of organizational practices and the psychosocial design of jobsas ways of promoting the occupational health of healthcare workers (L?vseth and de Lange, 2020).These practices, along with healthy job design, can help sustain the availability and continuity, aswell as appropriate levels of quality in the delivery of healthcare (L?vseth and de Lange, 2020).Despite these suggestions, recurrent data shows that occupational health-related disorders such asburnout and depression are continually increasing among healthcare workers worldwide (Herkeset al., 2019; Schot et al., 2019; Greenberg et al., 2020; Teoh et al., 2020b; Wang et al., 2020).