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Pandemic-Related Workplace Violence and Its Impact on Public Health Officials, March 2020‒January 2021

American journal of public health (1971), 2022-05, Vol.112 (5), p.736-746 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright American Public Health Association May 2022 ;American Public Health Association 2022 2022 ;ISSN: 0090-0036 ;EISSN: 1541-0048 ;DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306649 ;PMID: 35298237

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Title:
Pandemic-Related Workplace Violence and Its Impact on Public Health Officials, March 2020‒January 2021
Author: Ward, Julie A ; Stone, Elizabeth M ; Mui, Paulani ; Resnick, Beth
Subjects: Aggression ; Coronaviruses ; COVID-19 ; Departments ; Harassment ; Humans ; Job satisfaction ; Jurisdiction ; Leadership ; Local Government ; Marginality ; Masks ; Media violence ; Occupational Health ; Pandemics ; Political leadership ; Polls & surveys ; Public health ; Public Health - methods ; Public Health Practice ; Public Health Workers ; Public works ; Resignations ; Respondents ; Social networks ; Training ; Trauma ; United States - epidemiology ; Violence ; Violence against Public Health Officials ; Workforce ; Workplace ; Workplace Violence
Is Part Of: American journal of public health (1971), 2022-05, Vol.112 (5), p.736-746
Description: To characterize the experience and impact of pandemic-related workplace violence in the form of harassment and threats against public health officials. We used a mixed methods approach, combining media content and a national survey of local health departments (LHDs) in the United States, to identify harassment against public health officials from March 2020 to January 2021. We compared media-portrayed experiences, survey-reported experiences, and publicly reported position departures. At least 1499 harassment experiences were identified by LHD survey respondents, representing 57% of responding departments. We also identified 222 position departures by public health officials nationally, 36% alongside reports of harassment. Public health officials described experiencing structural and political undermining of their professional duties, marginalization of their expertise, social villainization, and disillusionment. Many affected leaders remain in their positions. Interventions to reduce undermining, ostracizing, and intimidating acts against health officials are needed for a sustainable public health system. We recommend training leaders to respond to political conflict, improving colleague support networks, providing trauma-informed worker support, investing in long-term public health staffing and infrastructure, and establishing workplace violence reporting systems and legal protections. ( . 2022;112(5):736-746. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306649).
Publisher: United States: American Public Health Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0090-0036
EISSN: 1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306649
PMID: 35298237
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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Pandemic-Related Workplace Violence and Its Impact on Public Health Officials, March 2020‒January 2021

Copyright American Public Health Association May 2022 ;American Public Health Association 2022 2022 ;ISSN: 0090-0036 ;EISSN: 1541-0048 ;DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306649 ;PMID: 35298237

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