Trends of violence against health care workers and facilities: understanding the unheard

Abstract

This paper evaluated trends of violence against healthcare workers and healthcare facilities. It further assessed risk factors, perpetuating, precipitating, and predicting factors. This paper presented a framework on how to address, minimize and control the violence against healthcare workers and facilities in an effective way. It further presented a framework for policy developers and decision makers to ensure the safety and protection of the healthcare profession.

Keywords

• Healthcare workers
• healthcare facilities
• COVID-19
• violence
• policy making