With everything going on globally right now with this pandemic, we are in a health crisis. It’s hard for people in various professions to keep going with the way things are. It can be risky for people who work with the public to keep healthy, and wait until there is a solution for the pandemic we are all currently experiencing. It doesn’t get discussed enough how much this affects workers when it comes to burnout. Job burnout occurs when there isn’t a break from the mental strain that something like this puts on people.

Key Takeaways:

• Burnout is generally understood to be a syndrome, one that is poorly managed as well as the result of ongoing stress within the workplace environment.
• This syndrome has distinguishing traits that are known to be common among those that experience it.
• Some of these are the tendency to distance oneself mentally and emotionally from one’s job, as well as chronic exhaustion and lack of pep.

“While there is plenty of research on burn-out among physicians, nurses, humanitarian aid workers, and front-line care providers, I found little data on incidence of burnout among global health professionals.”

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2020/07/20/burnout-a-silent-crisis-in-global-health/