Health worker organizations as governance agents: Rethinking labor and professional advocacy in a global context
Journal: Global Public Health
Representative health worker organizations (RHWOs), including unions, professional associations, and other organized groups representing health workers, play a crucial yet surprisingly undertheorized and underexplored role in global public health. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a marked rise in labour mobilization, as health workers have increasingly turned to collective action to address b…