Mental and Physical Health Challenges Experienced by the Global Healthcare Professionals

This research topic follows on from the topic editors' previously successful volume I.

Health professionals must ensure that their communities can utilize essential, quality health services. They are at the forefront of health education and promotion, so ensuring that they are satisfied and promoting successful practices will enhance health professionals' contributions to health systems. To keep the healthcare system working, healthcare professionals worldwide continuously provide the best possible care and services. With emerging and remerging communicable and non-communicable diseases, they are confronting monumental tasks now and then. All these cause mental and physical draining among healthcare professionals.

The over-arching aim of this research topic is to provide an understanding of the experiences faced by healthcare professionals during their day-to-day duties and to have a clear understanding of the challenges that they face. It will be beneficial to address these challenges and determine what can be done to ensure that healthcare professionals are content in their careers and that there will be enough individuals who take up roles in healthcare in the future.

This research topic will cover and address the following topics-

 Mental health challenges faced by healthcare professionals
 Physical health challenges faced by healthcare professionals
 Healthcare support system and role of health governance
 Burnout among healthcare professionals
 Occupational health hazards and knowledge and awareness of healthcare policies
 Challenges faced during the pre-COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic and post-pandemic
 Challenges faced due to emerging and remerging health issues
 Financial constraints and lack of adequate and trained manpower