The Covid-19 pandemic and related policy measures brought significant changes in the labour market in Wales and internationally. These changes, resulting in unemployment, income insecurity, and uncertainty, can be detrimental to physical and mental health.
Public Health Wales sought to identify interventions that could address the health impact of employment changes caused by the pandemic. For this purpose, our team developed an evidence map from the academic and grey literature. At the core of our methodology was a search protocol tailored to the specific research questions, allowing for a transparent and replicable search of the literature. The findings of this study were summarised in an interactive online tool, which gives users the opportunity to explore the evidence of interest swiftly and identify gaps in the literature by using the available filters.
For this study, we also delivered a technical report outlining our methodology, a narrative summary presenting overarching findings, and a Research Extraction Sheet (RES) providing further information on the studies included in the map.
The reports and evidence map are published on the Public Health Wales website.
Our reports and interactive evidence map:
