Health system responses to changes in the supply and demand for healthcare workers during and after a viral respiratory infection pandemic: protocol for a systematic review of the evidence to inform post-pandemic preparedness

Description

Healthcare systems need comprehensive, policy-actionable evidence to mitigate not just the immediate risk of infectious exposures from the current Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, but also longer-term impacts of pandemic responses. Infectious disease outbreaks are associated with surges in the supply of and demand for healthcare workers (HCWs). How these surges impact health systems’ abilities to manage chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) during the pandemic and post-pandemic periods are less well known.