---
_id: '7224'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Background: Evidence suggests that appropriately managed diversity in healthcare
    teams can enhance problem-solving, resilience, job satisfaction – all crucial
    for workforce retention. This scoping review aims to map evidence on how lived
    diversity experience is conceptualized and operationalized as an individual resource
    among care workers.\r\n\r\nMethods: An interdisciplinary approach across social
    anthropology, health sciences, and labor economics will be adopted. The databases
    to be searched include MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, Scopus and Web of Science and
    sources of grey literature. A two-stage screening process will be followed by
    systematic data extraction, with findings synthesized through descriptive numerical
    summaries and qualitative thematic analysis. \r\n\r\nResults: This scoping review
    is expected to shift the focus from organisational-level diversity research to
    research on how diversity contributes as an individual resource in care work contexts.
    It will map how diversity-as-resource is theoretically operationalized across
    disciplines, identifying existing measurement approaches and potentially revealing
    critical gaps in current assessment methods. \r\n\r\nConclusion: By synthesizing
    evidence on how care workers’ lived diversity experiences are deployed as valuable
    competencies in care delivery, this review will provide foundational knowledge
    to inform workforce transformational strategies"
author:
- first_name: Mariya
  full_name: Lorke, Mariya
  id: '252430'
  last_name: Lorke
  orcid: 0000-0002-1201-427X
  orcid_put_code_url: https://api.orcid.org/v2.0/0000-0002-1201-427X/work/230595304
- first_name: Vivian
  full_name: Carstensen, Vivian
  id: '76794'
  last_name: Carstensen
  orcid: 0009-0009-5913-8817
  orcid_put_code_url: https://api.orcid.org/v2.0/0009-0009-5913-8817/work/230595305
citation:
  alphadin: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lorke, Mariya</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Carstensen,
    Vivian</span>: Diversity as an individual resource in care work of the future:
    a scoping review protocol. In: <i>Frontiers in Public Health</i> Bd. 14, Frontiers
    Media SA (2026)'
  ama: 'Lorke M, Carstensen V. Diversity as an individual resource in care work of
    the future: a scoping review protocol. <i>Frontiers in Public Health</i>. 2026;14.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688">10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688</a>'
  apa: 'Lorke, M., &#38; Carstensen, V. (2026). Diversity as an individual resource
    in care work of the future: a scoping review protocol. <i>Frontiers in Public
    Health</i>, <i>14</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Lorke_Carstensen_2026, title={Diversity as an individual resource
    in care work of the future: a scoping review protocol}, volume={14}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688">10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688</a>},
    journal={Frontiers in Public Health}, publisher={Frontiers Media SA}, author={Lorke,
    Mariya and Carstensen, Vivian}, year={2026} }'
  chicago: 'Lorke, Mariya, and Vivian Carstensen. “Diversity as an Individual Resource
    in Care Work of the Future: A Scoping Review Protocol.” <i>Frontiers in Public
    Health</i> 14 (2026). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688</a>.'
  ieee: 'M. Lorke and V. Carstensen, “Diversity as an individual resource in care
    work of the future: a scoping review protocol,” <i>Frontiers in Public Health</i>,
    vol. 14, 2026.'
  mla: 'Lorke, Mariya, and Vivian Carstensen. “Diversity as an Individual Resource
    in Care Work of the Future: A Scoping Review Protocol.” <i>Frontiers in Public
    Health</i>, vol. 14, Frontiers Media SA, 2026, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688">10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688</a>.'
  short: M. Lorke, V. Carstensen, Frontiers in Public Health 14 (2026).
date_created: 2026-10-20T11:10:15Z
date_updated: 2026-10-21T12:47:20Z
department:
- _id: 4b2dc5c9-bee3-11eb-b75f-ecc80f94fb21
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1892688
intvolume: '        14'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
oa: '1'
publication: Frontiers in Public Health
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - 2296-2565
publication_status: published
publisher: Frontiers Media SA
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'Diversity as an individual resource in care work of the future: a scoping
  review protocol'
type: journal_article
user_id: '220548'
volume: 14
year: '2026'
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