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Healthcare workers ‘on the move’: making visible the employment-related geographic mobility of healthcare workers

Abstract

Many healthcare workers are ‘on the move’ as part of their employment, travelling often great distances to such places as patients’/clients’ homes and community clinics. Healthcare workers’ experiences of this employment-related geographic mobility have been relatively invisible even though mobility is necessary for home and community care. Interviews with professional (e.g. nurses) and paraprofessional (e.g. personal care assistants) …

Authors

Jackson L; Price S; Barber PG; Kruisselbrink A; Leiter M; Nourpanah S; Bourgeault I

Journal

Health Sociology Review, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 277–290

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

September 2, 2019

DOI

10.1080/14461242.2019.1659154

ISSN

1446-1242