Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline health workers to Covid-19 in Nigeria

Lessons and considerations for the social work profession

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9972349
AutoresPrince Agwu (0000-0001-9224-7622, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Nigeria; University of Nigeria, Nigeria; University of Dundee, UK, autor de correspondencia), Charles T Orjiakor (0000-0001-5379-8915), Aloysius Odii (0000-0002-2222-0835, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Nigeria; University of Nigeria, Nigeria), Obinna Onwujekwe (0000-0002-1214-4285, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Nigeria)
Año2022
Volumen66
Número1
Páginas206-218
Fecha de publicación2022-02-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00208728211073391
PMID36650896
OpenAlexW4214539069
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas17

COVID-19 stretched health systems, exacerbated by concerns about those that are corrupt and lack equity. Twelve (12) health workers and 12 hospital social workers across Nigeria were purposively sampled and virtually interviewed to explore unaccountability and corruption effects on COVID-19 responses. Findings show that corruption and unaccountability negatively affected responses of frontline health workers to the pandemic. Lack of social care and justice services for patients and health workers across health facilities in Nigeria worsened the negative effects. Effectively mainstreaming social care and justice services into Nigeria's healthcare led by well-trained social workers will improve the health sector via anticorruption

Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Equity (law · Health care · Health equity · Language change · Political science · Work (physics · COVID-19 and Mental Health · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Medicine · Social Work