A review of employment conditions as social determinants of health. Part II: the workplace
Moure-Eraso, Rafael ; Flum, Marian ; Lahiri, Supriya ; Tilly, Chris ; Massawe, Ephraim
2006
16
4
429-448
health impairment ; plant safety and health organization ; health status ; workers participation ; working conditions ; social inequality
Occupational diseases
https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/NEW
English
Bibliogr.
"This is the second part of an article on employment conditions as social determinants of health and health inequalities. In part I of this article, we explored structural (external) employment conditions that affect health inequalities and health gradients. In this article, we try to examine the internal aspects of employment conditions that affect the same variables. It is not our intention to "box" employment conditions in a rigid framework within an internal domain of person-hazard interaction. The objective of examining this variable is to scrutinize internal aspects of employment conditions at a comprehensive policy level in conjunction with external contextual variables. Major occupational health concerns are examined in relationship to globalization, child labor, and work in the formal and informal sectors. Interventions that can eliminate or greatly reduce these exposures as well as those that have been unsuccessful are reviewed. Innovative interventions including work organization change, cleaner production, control banding, national and international coalitions, participatory training, and participatory approaches to improving the work environment are reviewed."
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