global health risks in the workplace the impact on individuals

... and medicine has focused on the impact of working conditions on health Originally dating back to ancient Greece, Introduction investigations into the risks of working in different occupations were ... Finland, Sweden, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong, only two listed courses that examined the impact of working conditions on levels beyond the individual.1 Examining How Work Affects the Health ... and Asia The analysis is global in scope as well as in geography The impact of working conditions on the health of family members is felt as profoundly in the developing world as in industrialized...

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Ngày tải lên: 06/10/2014, 14:20

... against economic liberalization and protectionist pressures, limiting the ability of economies to benefits from globalization.2 In this paper, we examine the role of globalization in affecting the ... sense upon examination of data on the sectoral composition of FDI These 13 14 See the appendix for a list of countries included in the estimation Since income and consumption surveys are not conducted ... initially included, but their effects were not robustly estimated.17 To gain further insight into the impact of globalization on inequality, the empirical model was also estimated using the income...

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... poverty line in India, more than one in six www.prb.org Box Measuring Consumption Poverty Although the multiple-dimensions approach is gaining prominence, in most developing countries the official ... continue to be based on income or consumption A few sample surveys gather both income/consumption data and data on health but, in general, health- oriented surveys collect only proxies for consumption ... according to such conventional definitions If one knows where a household stands in terms of its consumption, what more can be learned by considering health as an additional dimension of well-being?...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... however, income has diminishing returns with increases in income having the most positive impact on health for the poorest individuals and still substantial but diminishing effects up to around the ... intergenerational influences on health and hence not be exogenous to health Second, since inheritances occur mainly at the upper end of the income distribution, but the association between income and health ... Effects of Nonhealth Policies Washington, DC February 9-10, 2006 There is increasing evidence that health care accounts for only a modest fraction of the variation in individual and population health...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... or in institutions as the last options in case of need (IMSERSO 2007) On November 30th 2006, the Act for the Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for Dependent Persons was passed in the Congress ... decision to take 85 years as the maximum age, on the other hand, was based on the fact that, although institutionalisation rates in Spain are lower than in other European countries, among those ... affective social support ones The confidant social support index is the result of combining the responses to the following prompts : ‘ I get invitations to go out and things with other people’, ‘ I get...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... France The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization or of the ... and the funding of health research as they impact on the health of the poor in developing countries A pro-poor health approach builds on the following four pillars ● Health systems comprise the ... by helping strengthen capacity in contracting and monitoring ● Working with informal and commercial providers as in the training of traditional birth attendants and other informal practitioners,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... settler conditions Taking the colonial origins of inequality into account, various insights in the long-run consequences of land distribution for economic inequality in general, and the nature ... population to foreign in- The Colonial Origins of Inequality 39 trusion In these areas colonists did not intervene directly into the production process, but concentrated their rent-seeking efforts on ... resistance).2 There are also clear indications that specific Iberian colonial institutions contributed to high land inequality in Latin America To study the impact of land inequality on income inequality...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:48

... is the distribution of income among individuals This concept is the main focus of the theoretical discussion in this book INTRODUCTION On the other hand, given the fact that households contain ... 3.2.Education, On -the- Job Training, and Income Distribution 3.3.Signalling Equilibrium under Conditions of Asymmetry of Information 3.4 .On -the- Job Informational Learning and the Insurance Contract ... with the second and third difficulties discussed in the text .The Basic Survey on the Living Conditions of the Nation (Ministry of Welfare, formerly called the Survey on the Living Conditions of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 15:21

... multicollinearity with national income The equations explain the consumption in China and Hong Kong respectively In theory, consumption is also a function of the interest rate and the price level: the ... and that income inequality has increased The final chapter analyses the contribution of different factors in the determination of income inequality The questions regarding whether income inequality ... the higher the interest rate or the price level, the lower consumption However, the interest rate and the price level are not included in either of the consumption equations, since the data doesn’t...

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... 0.054 0.006 Ethiopia Notes: Poverty line is the 20th percentile of consumption in the parents' generation MS= minimum schooling, MC=minimum consumption, MCW = minimum community wealth, P=primary, ... 0.054 0.006 Ethiopia Notes: Poverty line is the 20th percentile of consumption in the parents' generation MS= minimum schooling, MC=minimum consumption, MCW = minimum community wealth, P=primary, ... 0.054 0.006 Ethiopia Notes: Poverty line is the 20th percentile of consumption in the parents' generation MS= minimum schooling, MC=minimum consumption, MCW = minimum community wealth, P=primary,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:17

... many economic studies that education plays an important role in shaping the income distribution and the intergenerational mobility, since it relates to both intergenerational efficiency and intergenerational ... intergenerational mobility at the aggregate level In recent decades, the skill-biased technological change is the driving force behind the increasing wage premium affecting income distribution ... Section three sets up the general equilibrium structure of the model, including final goods production, education production and intergenerational population dynamics Section four discusses the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:24

... of consumption in the sense that the satisfaction that individuals derive from goods and services depends in increasing measure not only on their own consumption but on consumption by others ... component of the content contained within the work The World Bank therefore does not warrant that the use of any third-party-owned individual component or part contained in the work will not infringe ... virus International Development Association (of the World Bank Group) Institute for Development in Economics and Administration International Development Evaluation Association International Finance...

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Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... a focus on counseling The role of women in overseeing the health care of their families and the impact that responsibility has on their health and well-being is presented in Chapter Finally, ... uninsured, one-quarter have a chronic health condition, and 12% are in fair or poor health status (data not shown) In addition to their regular childrearing responsibilities, over one in 10 mothers ... have a chronic condition that requires ongoing medical attention, compared to 30% of men Not surprisingly, incidence of chronic conditions increases with age Nearly six in 10 women in their senior...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... 3) Public health investments in community health promotion and surveillance The health of the community should be promoted through information, education, monitoring and data collection, including: ... problems they face in getting the health services they need.4 At the same time, our economy is slowing and the value of the dollars we have to spend on health care is falling.5 Current debate over health ... well as having health conditions that directly affect their fertility.26 In addition, men influence important life decisions on contraception, abortion, pregnancy and childbirth, and infertility.27...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 07:20

... respondents, including their education and health status Around 30 000 observations were included in the dataset used for this project The HILDA data include reliable information on the educational ... detailed data on individuals and their employers, including their access to capital and other inputs However, according to standard economic theory, under certain conditions a person’s wage would ... variables used in the selection equation and 28 in the wage equation Education variables The HILDA survey includes questions on the respondents’ level of education For this project, education is represented...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... limited Table Links Between Economic Growth and Spending and Outcomes in Education and Health (continued) 31 The question of whether education or health is more important in determining economic growth ... factors for explaining health status Environmental factors in the wide sense of the term—might be even more important than medical inputs in explaining variations in health outcomes in industrialized ... these differences 7 A Trends in Education and Health Spending and Outcomes Spending on education and health varies considerably within the group of G7 countries.3 Total education spending (including...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... strong in uence on teaching practice in both fields, health and adult education In the health sector, the change in the concept of health education and the emergence of the new health promotion ... prevention and health promotion, these include providing access to health information, encouraging participation in the control of health measures, and supporting communities in the development of their ... publication has been produced by the UNESCO Institute for Education within the context of the follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA V), held in Hamburg in 1997...

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