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    Duty of care and health worker protections in the age of Ebola: lessons from Médecins Sans Frontières

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    Authors
    McDiarmid, M
    Crestani, R
    Issue Date
    2019-08-31
    Submitted date
    2019-11-08
    
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    Journal
    BMJ Global Health
    Abstract
    Health workers were differentially infected during the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak with an incidence rate of 30 to 44/1000 depending on their job duties, compared to the wider population’s rate of 1.4/1000, according to the WHO. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) health workers had a much lower incidence rate of 4.3/1000, explained as the result of MSF’s ‘duty of care’ toward staff safety. Duty of care is defined as an obligation to conform to certain standards of conduct for the protection of others against an unreasonable risk of harm. The duty of care was operationalised through four actions: performing risk assessments prior to deployment, organising work and work practices to minimise exposure, providing extensive risk communication and training of staff and providing medical follow-up for staff exposures. Adopting and consistently enforcing these broader, duty of care safety policies in deployed teams augments and fortifies standard infection prevention practices, creating a more protective, comprehensive safety programme. Prioritising staff safety by taking such actions will help avoid the catastrophic loss of the health work force and assist in building resilient health systems.
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    BMJ Publishing Group
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10144/619536
    Language
    en
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