Uninsured Health Care Workers Pose Public Health Risks | PHInational.org

 

The U.S. health care workforce’s lack of health coverage raises “important and perhaps alarming issues,” according to an article in the American Journal of Public Health’s December issue.

In some settings — specifically residential care and nursing homes — “almost one third of all workers providing hands-on care to vulnerable adults are uninsured,” the researchers report…….

The authors of the AJPH article argue that their findings raise serious public health and policy issues regarding the quality of the U.S. health care workforce. Of particular concern are “workers transmitting undetected infectious disease because they delay seeking care, and transmitting the flu because they do not receive a flu shot.”……

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Uninsured Health Care Workers Pose Public Health Risks | PHInational.org