Author(s)

Yating You ¹

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¹ Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

Since the break-out of COVID-19, healthcare workers have faced many unpredictable challenges. Healthcare workers always play an important role in fighting COVID-19 but they are less well-supported in terms of mental health in the United Kingdom. The leaders focus on the mental health condition of COVID-19 patients more and neglect that of healthcare workers. This essay states the difficulties that healthcare workers in the United Kingdom have encountered. This essay also suggests that healthcare authorities should pay more attention to healthcare staff’s mental health issues and conduct related measure to support them.

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Yating You, The Mental Health Impact on Healthcare Workers in the United Kingdom during Covid-19. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 39-42. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.060307.

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