Occupational health risks for doctors in contemporary public healthcare systems (review)

Doctors' health is seen as a sign that a public healthcare system is efficient. Authors of the present work aimed to review occupational health risks for doctors in contemporary public healthcare systems; to do that, they analyzed publications taken from both domestic and foreign databases. Multiple research works indicate that doctors' health and their efficiency are closely connected with peculiarities of their working conditions. Literature contains convincing evidence that unfavorable working conditions exert their influence on doctors' health; induce occupational diseases, occupational stress and burnout. Specific attention paid to occupational burnout is due to its high prevalence as well as impacts exerted by it on individual health and occupational efficiency of doctors. The authors note that researchers' interest to occupational stress occurs due to its negative effects on doctors' health and occupational efficiency and clinical safety as well. Some research works dwell on clinical context of occupational stress that includes strict requirements to work and adverse conditions that stimulate burnout and can result in a threat to a patient's safety...