Changes in Unemployment Among Health Care Workers Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sasmira Matta; Lauren H Nicholas

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.17608

Changes in Unemployment Among Health Care Workers Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA. 2022 Oct 25;328(16):1639-1641. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.17608.

Authors

Sasmira Matta¹, Lauren H Nicholas²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
² Department of Health Systems, Management, and Policy, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This study examines changes in unemployment among US health care workers from January 2015 to April 2022, before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Health Personnel* / statistics & numerical data
Health Workforce* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data
SARS-CoV-2
Unemployment* / statistics & numerical data