International Council of Nurses representing nursing at the World Health Organization: COVID-19, policy and holding politicians to account.
COVID-19
COVID-19 deaths
International Council of Nurses
World Health Assembly
World Health Organization
health policy
health workers
mortality
nursing deaths
nursing policy
Journal
International nursing review
ISSN: 1466-7657
Titre abrégé: Int Nurs Rev
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7808754
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2021
Sep 2021
Historique:
entrez:
22
9
2021
pubmed:
23
9
2021
medline:
26
11
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The International Council of Nurses is in a unique position to represent nurses at the World Health Organization, and its task has never been more urgent than this year. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the death rates of nurses and other health care workers are truly shocking, with around 115 000 deaths. However, many countries do not collect statistics on health and care workers' deaths and infections from COVID-19, so the full extent of this awful situation is not known. At this year's World Health Assembly, the body that sets the World Health Organization's agenda for the following year, the International Council of Nurses' 50-strong delegation voiced the concerns of nurses and ensured that the views and advice of nurses were heard by the World Health Organization's 194 member states' delegates. Here, the International Council of Nurses' Chief Executive Officer Howard Catton describes how the Council is influencing health and care policy worldwide. He urges nurses everywhere to hold their politicians to account.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34551116
doi: 10.1111/inr.12702
pmc: PMC8652658
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
267-269Informations de copyright
© 2021 International Council of Nurses.
Références
Int Nurs Rev. 2021 Sep;68(3):267-269
pubmed: 34551116