Occupational Wellbeing and Burnout in Healthcare: Challenges, Prevention and Strategies
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 450
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Interests: work; occupational health; COVID-19 pandemic; work-related stress; inflammatory bowel disease; wellbeing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The well-being of healthcare workers is essential for maintaining public health systems that function reliably and remain sustainable over time. Occupational burnout has long been recognized in healthcare, but increasing system complexity and recent global health crises have worsened physical and emotional exhaustion among physicians, nurses and allied health professionals. This phenomenon creates a system-level risk by worsening workforce shortages, lowering the quality of patient care and increasing staff intentions to leave.
This Special Issue, titled "Occupational Wellbeing and Burnout in Healthcare: Challenges, Prevention and Strategies", seeks to move beyond reporting the prevalence of stress and to examine its causes, contexts and implications for healthcare workers’ wellbeing. The aim is to collect high-quality evidence on interventions, governance models and support systems that can mitigate these risks.
We particularly encourage manuscripts that go beyond identifying problems and instead present concrete solutions. Specific areas of interest include organizational and policy interventions, approaches to improving work environments and the role of leadership dynamics. Given the rapid digital transformation in this sector, we also prioritize studies that examine how new technologies, such as digital health tools, AI and telemedicine, may affect workers and organizations, analyzing whether they act as stressors or instead support well-being and workplace efficiency.
This Special Issue accepts original research articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses that take multidisciplinary approaches, including occupational medicine, psychology and health management, to clarify how a workforce can be made safer, healthier and more resilient.
Dr. Michele Teodoro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- occupational burnout
- healthcare workforce
- psychosocial risks
- organizational interventions
- digital health and well-being
- resilience
- job satisfaction
- occupational safety
- mental health policy
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