Motivation to continue and the value of care work among French Red Cross volunteers and workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study

Although anxious state and risk perceptions influenced FRC actor motivation to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic, this motivation to continue must be understood in a context of changing values of voluntary and salaried care work that sustain the health and wellbeing of a population. Studies of future health emergencies could extend this reasearch to yield greater insight into sociocultural and political economic logics that sustain care work.