About the Project
Across the world, most healthcare providers are women
During the COVID-19 pandemic, women health workers reported the poorest health outcomes. (A scoping review of psychosocial risks to health workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Franklin P, Gkiouleka A).
The WHEELER study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare providers (HCPs) across all levels of Kenya’s healthcare system. It focuses on work-related changes and disruptions to the livelihoods of healthcare workers and the gendered impact of the pandemic.
Through this research, we can build inclusive, gender sensitive, and resilient healthcare systems in lower- and middle-income countries, especially during public health crises.
Our Approach
Through human-centred design and gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) mixed-method approach, we will provide evidence on the health, economic, societal, and gendered impacts of COVID-19 and its mitigation measures on the HCP workforce.
Human-centred design is a participatory approach that invites HCPs to be actively involved in the process of developing recovery and readiness strategies. Learn more here. (Here links to resource page).
Gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) is a design and analysis approach that will allow us to capture the breath and depth of HCP’s experiences while enabling us to identify important factors beyond sex and gender to develop inclusive and gender-transformative recovery strategies and solutions. Learn more here.
Our Objectives
- Describe the impact of COVID-19 on women paid and unpaid HCP, focusing on disruptions to economic opportunities and livelihoods and changes to work-related health and safety
- Describe the health, economic, and societal impacts of COVID-19 on paid and unpaid female HCPs
- Examine gender vulnerabilities associated with the pandemic with facility- and community-based HCPs
- Generate gender transformative and inclusive policy recommendations and develop sustainable recovery and readiness strategies to minimize the negative impact of COVID-19 and safeguard women HCPs in future health crises.
Evaluation Framework
WHEELER’s evaluation framework aims to evaluate the research design and implementation in terms of the quality of the research, its human-centred design approach and its partnership and equity approach. The WHEELER evaluation adopts and uses globally acknowledged standard assessment tools tailored to WHEELER’s concept and background.
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