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This study forgoes an institutional look at healthcare to center\u00a0individual healthcare personnel in Malawi to better understand (1) how the worldviews of healthcare workers impact their work in the context of COVID\u201019, (2) how COVID\u201019 impacted healthcare workers, and (3) the unique conditions faced by being a healthcare worker in a low\u2010income nation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      This research uses a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to qualitative methodology involving in\u2010depth interviews (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200915) with healthcare workers, traditional healers, and hospital leadership. The data collected were inductively coded and analyzed using the framework method, producing rich descriptions on how COVID\u201019 impacted the lifeworlds of healthcare workers in Malawi.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The findings reveal many of the struggles healthcare workers faced due to misaligned government policy and perceived proximity to COVID\u201019; outline their needs such as wanting\u00a0better resources, funds, wages, and public health communication; and, exemplify the significant role that personal biases, worldviews, and sense of fear played in how healthcare workers perceived and interacted with COVID\u201019.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Much of what was said echoes beyond borders, reflecting common global sentiments felt by healthcare personnel, and offers directions to explore building policies, strategies, and plans in preparation for any future disease outbreaks.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/hcs2.58","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,13]],"date-time":"2023-07-13T04:58:56Z","timestamp":1689224336000},"page":"242-254","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Exploring COVID\u201019 from the perspectives of healthcare personnel in Malawi"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"2","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0145-902X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ch\u00fak","family":"Odenigbo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography Environment and Geomatics at the University of Ottawa 60 University Ottawa Ontario Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eric","family":"Crighton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography Environment and Geomatics at the University of Ottawa 60 University Ottawa Ontario Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_13_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2021.647543"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajp.2020.102119"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajem.2020.04.024"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0894318420965225"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jhin.2017.07.001"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amepre.2006.03.010"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/medethics-2020-106398"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2147\/JMDH.S330041"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_10_1","unstructured":"Malawi Malaria Impact Evaluation Group. 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