Public and Workplace Services

The Pitfalls of Home: Protecting the Health and Safety of Paid Domestics

Can industrial outwork enhance homeworkers’ capabilities? Evidence from clusters in South AsiaWorld Development

Homework can be seen as the source of exploitation of workers, but under some conditions, it can foster human development and the emergence...

Linking Safety Nets, Social Protection and Poverty Reduction: Directions for Africa

Swept Under the Rug: Abuses Against Domestic Workers Throughout the World

Good Practices in Safety, Health, and Working Conditions: Home workers, farmers, construction workers in Cambodia, Mongolia and Thailand

“You just look at our work and see if you have any freedom on earth”: Ghanaian women’s accounts of their work and their health

Abstract: Research on women’s health in the developing world has focussed on reproductive issues and has defined women primarily as...

Challenges for improving surveillance for pesticide poisoning and policy implications for developing countriesInternational Journal of Epidemiology

Abstract:Background: Surveillance is a critical public health tool for the control of pesticide poisoning. However, surveillance activities...

The global expansion of precarious employment, work disorganization, and consequences for occupational health: placing the debate in comparative historical perspectiveInternational Journal of Health Services

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Health Insurance in India: The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

This policy brief explores the challenges faced by India’s poor workers in using the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), the largest...

Turkey Seen Through the Prism of Occupational Diseases

It is hard to diagnose and recognise an occupational disease (OD) because the diagnosis must prove the occupational factors which caused...