Public and Workplace Services

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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Occupational Health & Safety for Market and Street Traders in Accra and Takoradi, Ghana

The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India

Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...

The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune: KKPKP and SWaCH Members Push for Health Rights

This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their...

Impact of national health insurance for the poor and the informal sector in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Abstract: Moving away from out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for healthcare at the time of use to prepayment through health insurance (HI) is...

Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre o cuidado das crianças e trabalhadoras informais de 6 organizações de base (OBs) de trabalhadoras/es pobres

Esta publicação é um resumo de “Nossos filhos não recebem a atenção que merecem”: Um resumo dos resultados da pesquisa sobre...

The Place of Informal Workers and the Informal Economy in Approaches to Social Protection

Increasing numbers of workers across the world experience eroding work related to social protection and those who ‘do’ social policy see...

Health Conditions of Recyclable Waste Pickers

Abstract: The presence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among vulnerable populations is a rarely discussed subject. Thus, the...

Transitioning from the informal to the formal economy

Report V(1), International Labour Conference, 103rd Session, 2014